Comments on: Stim Nation: Adderall Use, Abuse & Addiction

By: amy

amy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:50:06 +0000

I’ve been taking adderall for about a year now. I started taking it when I started college because it was just too tough to get straight A’s without it. Now I’m suffering from chronic insomnia, I stopped taking adderall for about a week and it seemed as if I got worse. I’ve been seeing medical professionals and they say I have anxiety. Now im wondering if it is because a build up of adderall over time, or just the pressure of having to get straight A’s to get into a nursing program, or both?
If anyone has the same problem or advice please let me know

By: jen

jen — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:12:56 +0000

I am sorry people who are not addicted to adderall has to feel so hostile toward those who don’t agree with it. Let me just ask those who claim they aren’t addicted. (I have been on it for years and got off the poison) Can you go a day withoiut it? YOu really never noticed any emotional changes?(i don’t at ALL buy that you haven’t)Do you need to take this amphetamine for the very rest of your life? Hmmmm to me if you are on a drug that has top be upped due to tolerance and one you can’t function without…… Yeah you have ADD but congratulations!!! You’re also an addict :) Toss those pills away and let’s see how addict like you act….. I don’t care what anyone says (I have been on this stuff for years) You ruin the way your brain is supposed to naturally develop and you mine as well snort some cocaine. Argue all you want…. but it is the truth.

By: xxxxxx

xxxxxx — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:33:13 +0000

plastic parents — GET A MOTHERFUCKING CLUE DONT PRESCRIBE YOUR CHILDNEN TO THIS SHIT

By: xxxxxx

xxxxxx — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:32:12 +0000

i was on my way to become a pro surfer i was in the fuckn industry at 16 with a name fur myself and everybody supported it, adderal complety FUCKKED MY LIFE i feel to weak to even go to the beach

By: xxxxxx

xxxxxx — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:29:45 +0000

if anybody who has been through similar feelings please any advice would help im kinda a drum and bass dj so ive been raving since i was really young and i need weed to ever fall asleep but this pararoia is heavy sometimes i never talked to anybody about it because i feel scared,alone,insane im still on it too but need to stop

By: xxxxxx

xxxxxx — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:22:06 +0000

im now 18 and i feelk as if i am literaly falling apart minute by minute 24-7 im a student who has just recentely graduated but i have been on the generic form of adderal athemphetimine for longer than i can remember, i guess being a home school dj helped the addiction i dunno but i have been though it, suicide webites,mental breakdowns, problem with family and please please please never prescribe ur child to this i dont give a fuck how bad of add they have its not worth dying over,

By: Addicted_or_Dependent

Addicted_or_Dependent — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:08:52 +0000

i hate life when trying to quit adderall after 12yrs of taking it daily for add (220mg/daily) tablet form

By: trb326

trb326 — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:08:48 +0000

I have taken adderall on and off for 5 years. Honestly, it has been more on than off. I started buying it from a girl in class my junior year of highschool and am now a junior in college. I have smoked weed on and off since I was a freshman in highschool, again more on than off. I am trying to stop taking adderall currently because it is slowly ruining my life. My freshman year I took 60 mg a day and drank two redbulls (caffene interacts with adderall, intensifies it) I had a 3.4 GPA and partied hard EVERY night til 4 am would get up at 7 am and never miss a class or an assignment. By the end of the last semester, right around when Brittney Spears shaved her head, I was feeling like I was going insane too. I honestly had to hide the magazine of my roommates with Brittney and her bald head on the cover to stop thinking about how insane the world and I were becoming at least to my adderalled out mind. I remember calling my mom one day, telling her about 10 things I had done before noon and then complaining about how I could never get it all done I was falling so far behind and how I didn’t know if I could even do it anymore. It was awful. I took the summer off from the adderall and even quit smoking weed for a while after a classmate took too many drugs and hung himself. I went to Ireland and didn’t touch anything but of course alcohol at the end of the summer. Yet I was excited for school to come so that I could be superwoman again and feel great, not to mention loose some weight (I was never the least bit fat without it but have always had a distorted body image). When school came I did alright for the first semester than failed miserably the second. I still have a 2.9 GPA which is sad because I could not apply to nursing school this semester as planned because you have to have at least a 3.0. Before drugs I was always a straight A student. I have always been an overachiever but the bad kind. The kind that sees black and white, all or nothing. I have to get an A or might as well just get an F. HORRIBLE way to think but somehow I can’t seem to change. I also have this problem where I NEED a guy one that loves me and pays constant attention to me. Then I purposely create problems and seem to unconciously beg for attention so much that the guy gets annoyed or that he gives it to me and I no longer enjoy the guy because they are no longer a challenge but are instead an annoyance. I don’t know if I will ever have any hope. I have cut out all relationships. i don’t think that there is a single person that truely knows me. I have been this way for a long time. Its a sad way to live and I want to know how to change.

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:57:03 +0000

Saw your post re: Adderall–

I am 52 y.o. SWM- been taking Adderall for at least 6 years– last few years said to self- cant function with out. Over the last few years have gotten a “flat depression” and constant insomnia- just thought depression– just saw a “specialist” today and he told me “to get off Adderall”– he said over the length I have taken- may be responsible for depression symptoms- so far have “wasted afternoon”- but i have never been off for more than a few days- so I am willing to try– ALSO– I was referred a “natural ADD herbal tonic”—called “Focus Addult” made by NativeRemedies.com- 2 people i know have their kids on it & swear by it- when the kids didnt like ADD meds- hope the last bit helps… The first part was just letting you know- there are a lot of us who “fear going off Adderall”– the short term rebound is tough- fatigue, feeling “out of sorts”– I am hoping ( as this Dr said)- that at about a month “I will get back to being “normal”—

By: Ali

Ali — Thu, 22 May 2008 18:16:30 +0000

All I can suggest you to drink lot of coffee,