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Ritalin suppresses some of those deeper emotions. It also gives you additional rewarding feelings for completing tasks here and now. Unless you have ADHD due to genetic factors then imo it's just a mask over the real emotional issue. A very effective and useful one but still a temporary measure.
I view Ritalin and Adderall as a performance enhancer. I have never seen a biological study proving ADHD except perhaps some EEG. Virtually everyone I have known prescribed amphetamines abused them. (Anecdotal warning) And my ex roommate was a large prescriber of Adderall. He would see patients for 3 minutes. He had 3 homes (one an $8m condo) and drove a matte black Lamborghini Aventador. He was way overweight and dr…
We might still don't know of if it's really a disability of the mind, or of the society, but for those who suffer it, it doesn't really matter.
The drugs can certainly be used as performance enhancers, but that doesn't change anything. Nitroglycerin can be used as to blow things up, but it's still useful for people with heart disease, and for some I believe there are still few options.
ADHD or ADD for me, is suffering.
Visibly, palpably, in one or several ways.
It's not "some things are hard to do", no. It's not that.
It's trying to do the basic of life, and simply not be able to, no matter how talented you are.
Not for the lack of will power and determination, those are largely irrelevant on this side of the border, they mean something completely different here.
If you ever want anything else out of life than that what your compulsion drives you to do, to get away from the boredom that makes your skin crawl and itch?
You'll believe it'll work this time too, as you have the 3649 times before.
The eternal optimist, still seemingly doomed to fail.
"See a therapist" they say, when it was the therapist who sent me to the psychiatrist.
"You need to try harder", when my body and brain simply stopped working because I tried so hard.
When anyone claim something like ADD/ADHD doesn't exist, I don't really get mad any more.
I think I used to.
Now I feel sad, because that sentiment is common enough that people don't get help when they should.
Instead they pointlessly loose years, or even decades of their lives to their own whims, because some people refuse to believe the accounts of thousands.
Never able to either choose their path, or live as they choose.
Our existence seems to scare people, and our inability to function in society can't easily be discounted without consequence for ones own image of self and what we as humans are, so instead our accounts are discredited.
It's okay if you don't understand how it is. It is hard to understand how someone can be so alike oneself, and yet so different, I've experienced that myself, but from a different perspective.
I will be content if you accept that I write from experience, and that my account is in no way unique, thought I've been told that the way I tell it is.