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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
I had the same issue due to excessive coffee drinking. Stopping cold for 2-3 weeks helps to bring back some of the effectiveness later. But any regular dose even after this is rapidly tolerance-building.
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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,…
Thanks. Very much appreciate it. I’m 34. Was diagnosed with ADHD in 1st grade. Have been on it since and have done very well in life. Much of it, I give credit to medication. Though it hasn’t been the cure-all. I’ve had many peaks and valleys in life. Medication doesn’t prevent that. I’d attribute my positive results due to inner work, personal-development (hundreds of books), countless podcasts (Tim Ferriss, Naval R…
Any chance you could expand on some of this self-work? I'm a big fan of self improvement books, and I certainly struggle with attentiveness. Any insight would be much appreciated.
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Brave New World
Exactly. I find it impressive Aldous Huxley wrote it when WW2 was beginning. Before LSD, Prozac, and the Mental Health Crisis.
As a marine, this is just unbelievable to see in the Marine Corps Gazette. What a strange timeline.
I always had the impression that the armed forces have a hands off approach to drugs, while its the federal government that puts the foot down.
If there’s emerging research, which there is with micro dosing, that shows a potential tactical advantage for a particular substance certain groups within DoD will probably lean into it and try to get an exception. For things like marijuana or cocaine, not gonna happen, it’ll still get treated like alcohol influence even if it is removed from Federal scheduling. That said there’s been plenty of confusion in the past with workout supplements causing positive drug test results for Amphetamines. It’s an administrative problem without an easy solution that I can think of.
When I was a child and teen I was a hyperactive, unstimulated, bored, D- student. Ritalin drastically changed that and I was getting A's and teachers described me as a whole different person. I would too: it made me antisocial and jittery and basically robbed me of my humanity. Since then I've found drug-free strategies to manage my intellectual/social Jekyll and Hyde. The idea of performance enhancing drugs making t…
I was avg in school while being smarter than what i was able to bring to the paper and it frustrated me like hell.
With something like >20 i got myself Ritalin. Now i was able to get the next degree and actually start studying as well.
Whilei never took it every single day, i do took learned behaviour, like a certain 'i'm cleaning now everything' with me and other work/learning behaviours.
I prefer my current live and while i have full appreciation for everyone doing jobs which require less smarts, i would have been very depressed and unhappy if i would be stuck in another type of job without the need of my smarts.
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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…
I've been on adderall since I was 17. I'm 32 now. Almost more of my life has been spent on it than off it. I've been productive in a variety of ways. Some examples are listed on my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shawwn but I feel silly bragging about comparatively minor accomplishments in ML. But I know for a fact that without adderall, I wouldn't have done a damn thing. I've tried for a few months. Shrugged and we…
When you sit in front of your clean and prepared desk with over 20 and you sit there and hold a pen and you look at the book and nothing happens and you just can't and give up after 15 or 20 minutes starring at it, i realized thats how it is.
I don't know where this blockage comes from, i know it took me quite a while to see this barrier so clearly but i know now this was always here.
Ritalin just solved this problem. I had a small wall to break through with Ritalin, easy and then i just did it.
When I was a child and teen I was a hyperactive, unstimulated, bored, D- student. Ritalin drastically changed that and I was getting A's and teachers described me as a whole different person. I would too: it made me antisocial and jittery and basically robbed me of my humanity. Since then I've found drug-free strategies to manage my intellectual/social Jekyll and Hyde. The idea of performance enhancing drugs making t…
> 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…
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I use stimulants to cope with my ADHD. The problem is that without it my mind - a bright one - goes absolutely blank. It actively refuses to cooperate unless what I want to do is extremely interesting. Without the stimulants I feel like a train cart being taken to a different direction by the rail tracks, pushed or pulled against its will by the train. I was unable to go clean my teeth, eat, or clean my flat; and I d…
Most of your post resonates with me. Can you clarify what you mean by “actually me”?
If you're lucky that's a common state of mind. But for people like me who have severe cases of inattentive ADHD, it's a once-in-a-blue-moon state of flow. Off medication my life is a perpetual hot mess, in large part because my self-image of who I am is not reflected in how I act, moment to distracted moment.
Adderall (or Vyvanse in my case) gets me a 0.95 batting average. Every moment of every day I'm on-task, energized, and achieving what I want to achieve. It makes the person I am, moment to moment, reflect the person I want to be.
Most people get prescribed Adderall because of failings at work or school. People come to think of ADHD as an unable-to-work-hard personality failure. But really it's a my-life-is-a-hot-mess-and-I'm-struggling-to-stay-afloat condition that you just can't escape. Adderall is a magical drug that makes this failing go away, leaving us on top of things and feeling normal.
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Most of your post resonates with me. Can you clarify what you mean by “actually me”?
I've come to realize that "I" am just a small part of the brain. A virtual machine running on top of the primitive host. Every single second is a struggle over the who gets control of the hardware, and most of the time the host wins. What "I" want and what the primitive host brain/OS wants are 2 completely different things. Food, shelter, reproduction. That's all it needs. Needless to say, "I" want so much more. Of c…
Misquoted from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy