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Caffeine wears off quickly, and seems to be good for you. I go off cold turkey once in a while, and the worst I've ever gotten is a week of mild headaches.
Whether caffeine is good for you or not seems to be largely inconclusive, similarly to the question of whether caffeine is bad for you.
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#42Only a matter of time before we are expected to take drugs to be better at our jobs.
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When you got off Ritalin, did you find yourself more emotional and “feeling” more pain? I think the fear of this keeps most people on Ritalin/Adderall/Concerta/Vyvanse, etc.
I can't comment on the OPs experience but I was on adderall for a few years of my childhood until my parents took me off of it because I was too angry and violent as they said. I got back on it a few years back after realizing that normal people didn't seem to struggle with problems I just took to be my own lack of willpower. I occasionally take breaks, sometimes weekends or weeks. I've noticed when I get off of it,…
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#45It would be interesting to see if microdosing LSD would lead to any ethical objections to war or violence on the part of the Marines.
I mean, I'm pretty sure the tendency for LSD users to ethically object to war or other offensive violence is exactly why the US decided it should be treated as more dangerous than crystal meth (or perfectly legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco and caffeine) despite there being precisely zero evidence of such danger.
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#46Only a matter of time before we are expected to take drugs to be better at our jobs.
We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
To my sadness, it feels like I'm excluded from a common universal community and performance advantage
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> The idea of performance enhancing drugs making their way into the workplace arena scares me a lot. You say that as if it hasn't already happened, Adderall has been ubiquitous for years. At my last office job we had an intern from out of state miss work abruptly because she couldn't get her Adderall prescription filled, and, I shit you not, skipped work to fly to Nevada to fill her out of state 'script because CA ph…
This is one thing that terrifies me about moving away from my Dr. if I were to move across the country and suddenly couldn't get my medicine I know I would quickly become a wreck for a week or so well I dealt with all of the comedowns.
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This is one thing that terrifies me about moving away from my Dr. if I were to move across the country and suddenly couldn't get my medicine I know I would quickly become a wreck for a week or so well I dealt with all of the comedowns.
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Really? Do you have any basis for saying this? For many people, going without meds is like going without glasses--you may be able to walk around without your glasses, but you're not functioning the way you want to.
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We're all on caffeine already and no one is clutching pearls over it. How is taking harder drugs any different other than in effectiveness?
Whenever threads mention caffeine I am compelled to share that caffeine has no effect whatsoever on me. To my sadness, it feels like I'm excluded from a common universal community and performance advantage