No kidding. I don't even mix it with caffeine because it makes me feel terrible. Alcohol is tolerable, but I still try to avoid mixing stuff. Luckily most of it's out of my system by the evenings anyways.

Oh it's amazing. Especially if you drink a lot. I wouldn't be surprised to learn there are some amplifying chemical effects when combined similar to cocaine + alcohol -> cocaethylene

Personally I am the other side of what you said lol I can't imagine that people don't feel it or don't enjoy it!

addiction science is cool and evolving. i wonder if people have different inherent dopamine regulation/Glutamate chemistry in their brains causing this difference of 'fun' [1]

and or maybe it's like cocaine or opiates where some people have to do it a couple times to 'notice' the difference. and then that difference drives your life lol

[1] https://www.intechopen.com/books/attention-deficit-hyperacti...

Haha, that's how she and others I know who use it like that use it. I'm just happy she gets something out of it. I don't, and that's okay. I still have fun, just not with Addy.

Mixing uppers and downers feels fantastic when you get the dosages right. But it's absolutely horrific to be doing that to your body with any regularity.

My personal experience was that dextroamphetamine helped my (pretty severe) social anxiety by calming me. I don't know if I'd call it "partying", but I've functioned much better at social gatherings when taking therapeutic doses of it.

I've been considering trying to get a prescription for years, but I don't present most typical symptoms of ADD (maybe some inattentive ones?) so I suspect psychiatrists would be reluctant and just try to get me onto SSRIs, which have done nothing for me.

Part of what makes it so difficult to diagnose adult ADHD is that most adults come up with a range of adaptive behaviours to try and mitigate the effects of the disorder. So just because you don't look like you have stereotypical ADHD doesn't mean you're not compensating for them - have a think about your various coping mechanisms and whether they're covering for some of those symptoms.

> My personal experience was that dextroamphetamine helped my (pretty severe) social anxiety by calming me.

This is what Cocaine, MDMA or alcohol in reasonable doses would do to you. Stimulants generally do this to everyone.

Yeah, that might check out too.

I was sort of responding to the claims 1) that non-ADHD people "bounce off the walls" when using stimulants and/or 2) that ADHD people couldn't use stimulants socially because it calms and focuses them rather than amping them up. Either I'm in the former category, and then claim 1 doesn't really track because it genuinely is a calming sensation for non-ADHD people (sample size 1, myself), or I'm in the latter category and then claim 2 doesn't track because stims really can help ADHD sufferers (same methodology) with socializing.