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i'm in more or less exactly the same boat, only i got diagnosed officially with adhd yesterday and wont receive any medication for a few weeks. hoping it's not a misdiagnosis and life becomes a little easier.

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People with ADHD might have benefit from working together. It’s called doubling and originally made for people with ADHD. One of them is https://www.caveday.org/.

> hoping life becomes a little easier

If I was going to be taking meds I would be hoping life becomes a LOT easier, considering the risks to disrupting the body's natural equilibrium. You should be very cautious of any drugs, especially mind-altering that must be taken frequently.

To those who come across this, ignore the ableist bullshit. ADHD medications are generally very effective. The biggest side effect is the asinine stigma they bring from people with zero understanding of ADHD or basic biochemistry.

This is very defensive. Of course they are effective, but there are very few studies on the long term effects. Common sense says that dosing your body with neurotoxic amphetamines over a long period is not good for your central nervous system. Take it everyday if you want, but don't pretend to know about the safety of long term use.

The drugs own warnings are pretty bad: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=f22...

There's very little evidence it causes any problems. Some of these medications have been in use since the 60s and most have at least 20 years of data behind them.

>neurotoxic amphetamines

That's deliberately loaded terminology. Amphetamines are neurotoxic but not at the doses used therapeutically (obviously). Everything is neurotoxic at a high enough dose.

>The drugs own warnings are pretty bad

All drugs have pretty bad warnings:

Each year, the side effects of long-term NSAID use cause nearly 103,000 hospitalizations and 16,500 deaths. More people die each year from NSAIDs-related complications than from AIDS and cervical cancer in the United States.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050111123706.h...

Would you care to post citations on side effects or dangers? Or are the doctors the ones who need to "do their research"?

A change that gets you "a little better" can very significantly impact the rest of your life, when you started at a low baseline.

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