Maoi have serious side effects, dangerous interactions with other drugs (and food!) and have withdrawal effects. These do not combine well with ADHD symptoms, and are not a first line treatment for a good reason.

They also don’t cause emotional flattening or weight gain like every other mental health medication. On top of that, they’re some of the most effective medications available, commonly polled much higher than SSRIs, SNRIs, or tricyclics.

Setting aside blue cheese and kombucha was an easy choice for me.

None of those medications are primay treatments for ADHD, nor do the side effects you list map to Adderal or Ritalin, which are.

I'm glad your sample size of 1 MAOI use is working well, but your statements are at best uninformed, if not blatantly spreading misinformation.

You’re right, it’s not scientific or authoritative information. Anecdotally, though, MAOIs solve my attention issues where Ritalin and Adderall failed.

I was going to say the same thing but for Modafinil. It has been demonstrated to be not only non-neurotoxic but neuroprotective, you don't need to sleep sixteen hours when you cycle off, and it doesn't change your personality.

I'm diagnosed ADHD and Modafinil has been saving my life (defined as my ability to hold a high paying professional job in tech and provide for my family) for a decade and a half.

Thanks for sharing this! I have always figured I’d try it at some point, but I seem to have a system that works. If that changes, I’ll keep this in mind.

is adderall neurotoxic and modafinil neuroprotective?

> MAOI

Ah yes, just don't eat blue cheese, drink grapefruit juice, or ingest one the thousands of otherwise innocuous drugs with MAOI contraindications unless you want to die a horrible death.

It’s less of a problem than you make it sound like. I don’t ever eat blue cheese and I don’t take arbitrary drugs. It’s been a lifesaver for me, and it has none of the weight gain or emotional flattening side effects of most other mental health medications. MAOIs are also commonly polled with a much higher efficacy rate.