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"Husbands are working overtime bc they're asexual/adderalled out while the family unit is completely broken bc every1 is plugged into their phones (for reference, not one family member or friend has asked me how I'm doing, but our group chat is teeming w random twitter videos lol)."
"For years I lived on a diet of Adderall and Diet Pepsi during the day, and then ate one evening meal of junk/fast food. Never flossed, never worked out, never tried to eat healthy, and put whatever drugs/booze into my body without issues."
"I don't care if you take it or not and it's a non-issue for me, but I love planting a little comment suggesting adderal is being over-prescribed these days and getting a 11 paragraph response clearly written by someone on speed."
"Well Finally I pulled the plug (they all say this hahaha) and went to see the psychiatrist and got a diagnosis, it turns out I have ADHD and he prescribed me 500mg adderall per day with unlimited re fills. Now I am a tech PM making $2.1 million per year at Google after graduating from MIT with a 4.0"
"Targeted towards high-school students with ADHD who abuse their Adderall and Ritalin."
"I have a huge bottle of adderall and I've noticed that whenever I take it (only 5 mg), I am so much smarter, more productive, barely eat, and get everything I need done. On days I don't take it, I'm like a fat worthless slob who does nothing but snack and browse reddit."
"yeah it makes you feel fun and sexy and free but it's followed by the most soul crushing hollow awful feelings of emptiness known to man. i don't believe someone can endure this on a daily basis without roping themselves."
"I've never felt so averse to eating in my life. It's not fun having to force feed yourself everyday. I also don't understand how anyone could take this recreationally, what does it even do for you?"
"I WILL BECOME THE ULTIMATE WAGIE!!!! GIVE ME PRESCRIPTION AMPHETAMINES AND I PLEDGE MY LIFE TO NETANYAHU!!!"
"Got super addicted to adderal to fuel the feeling of mania when I started to get depressed lol"
"He then started talking to me about drugs lol and how he love to watch porn on adderall and how he love benzos and was addicted to it for a period of his life. And he asked me so casually like "porn on adderall is amazing, is that why you have the prescription" as if it was a normal thing (is it?)."
"In first chapter of "Dirtbag" there's a really funny bit where Amber tells about how she had a Prager-U watching therapist who used cognitive behavioral therapy to get her to take personal responsibility for writing her book because adderall alone wasn't enough."
"Adderall shortages persist to the detriment of the neurodivergent and the recreational grinder."
"I took some adderall extendo too late into the day and spent the whole night in bed reflecting on a relationship I ruined like 5 years ago... At least I can take solace in the amphetamine-induced short-term memory loss that wiped away what ever conclusion I came to yesterday."
"My cousin offered me some Adderall, and I was able to feel all the restraints of being an annoying woman letting go. I'm usually a sensitive person whose thoughts are usually disorganized, my mouth moves before my brain could catch up, and I'm prone to saying the most edgy and unhinged ideas in my h"
"A disturbing amount of my colleagues are on Adderall, and I don't want to be frankly."
"I've been conducting field work. My current notes:
-extremely long emails/posts/texts
-rapid yet disturbingly coherent speech
-irritability, but in a juvenile, tantrum way
-crow's feet
-pale face"
"I was gonna find a funny and witty way to articulate this but then my adderall wore off"
"I know this was basically what diet pills were; but since adderall is prescribed at such high rates now, and modern long acting formulations are less addictive than they used to be, and people be fat as hell, I guess it seems like we're due for bit of a renaissance here?"
"Wish I could find my level headed structural engineer gf"
"I will be sooo skinny (because i will have the motivation to work out now), (not any other reason)."
"I wasn't trying to get it, and I have a history of alcohol addiction so this makes me extremely nervous. But my doctor said since I have no real history with abusing stimulants he wants to see how it goes. I've also noticed that people who take a lot of adderall long term are definitely a little wei"
"to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need — three or four years if they need it — to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities"
"Used to abuse my friends adderall scripts pretty heavily in college, but since I started working post-grad I pretty much stopped taking it. I've been extremely lazy and avoiding my work recently so I decided to fix this with more adderall."
"Take the drug to concentrate more at work or school and be more productive, stay up longer and create more stuff that people don't need but consume anyway."
"Psychologist referred me to a neurologist who said I had hypersomnia and that there is no treatment, best we can do is adderall to alleviate the symptoms."
"+ why does everyone in the US seem to have such easy access to adderall? Do all of these people have diagnosed adhd? I'm from the U.K. and I'm curious as it's hard to get adhd meds even if you have a diagnosis here"
"I went on a huge course of psychiatric meds a few months after we broke up, like lexapro, klonopin, adderall and a couple other minor ones all once."
"As I previously mentioned, I was a bit of a psychonaut, but I was more than just that- I was a pill popper as well. I was on 60mg of Adderall (IR and XR) and 3mg of Klonopin throughout the day."
"how is it that i didnt do a drug all month, went to the gym almost every day, saw Good Cinema in the Theater How It Was Meant to be Seen, read books lef n right, and then in the last week of the month, spent 8 hrs a day on The phone, was mean to my dearest friend for no reason (i've since apologized"
"Was tired for a couple days but am reverting back to my old self as I remember. The usual inflicted orderliness and impulse control is melting away at unprecedented speed. I can't sit still. It reminds me of childhood, before "hyperactive ADD" was a thing working-class families sent kids to doctors "
"If I could do this every day without diminishing returns I 100% would"
"I had been taking adderall for the past 10 years daily, and about a month ago decided to stop taking the medication. I was on a normal dose, 2-3 pills of IR a day, and quit because I didn't have a reason to take it other than feeling the euphoria of the stimulant high. Adderall never made me better "
"One girl told me she is bisexual and has a high-dose Adderall prescription in the first five minutes of meeting her."
"I miss slamming adderall and showing up to the make-up session for a lab I should've done at the start of the semester."