Re:Ask HN: Do you have ADD/ADHD? Do you take Adderall/Ritalin?
by jenkstom on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @04:44PM
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Yes, and it has changed my life. I take Focalin and I no longer spend 4 out of 5 days trying and failing to do the things I know I have to do to function in life. It was a really large source of anxiety in my life that is now gone.
When I first started taking ADHD medications, there was definitely an amphetamine phase. I felt like I could do anything, super-motivated to do new projects. That has gone now, but now it is dramatically less of a fight to do what I need to do. I still get burned out on things like everybody else and then a project feels like "work", but I can get through it.
I wish I'd had this in college, maybe I wouldn't have crashed and burned. I wasn't diagnosed until my 40's.
When I first started taking ADHD medications, there was definitely an amphetamine phase. I felt like I could do anything, super-motivated to do new projects. That has gone now, but now it is dramatically less of a fight to do what I need to do. I still get burned out on things like everybody else and then a project feels like "work", but I can get through it.
I wish I'd had this in college, maybe I wouldn't have crashed and burned. I wasn't diagnosed until my 40's.