Posted by blueberry1 on January 7, 2007, at 15:13:03
So I see in case studies that when they give dextroamphetamine to HIV or AIDs patients with depression, a remarkably high percentage of them improve dramatically and rapdily. So what about the rest of us? What, you gotta have a deadly disease before they give you something that can actually make you feel good?
Anyway, I will see a psychiatrist in a couple weeks and want to ask for a stimulant. I have tried Ritalin. I want a different one. I know the stimulants are different from one another, like antidepressants are different from one another. In reading different things it appears on paper that dextroamphetamine is the one with a high potential of mood boost.
I am wondering. How do the stimulants differ from each other in terms of mechanism? For example, does one affect dopamine/norepinephrine but not serotonin? Does another one affect serotonin? Which one is just a reuptake inhibitor? Which one is a neurotransmitter releaser and uptake inhibitor? I seem to do best with things that squirt out more neurotransmitters rather than damming them up, so I'm interested in that particular mechanism.
I'm wondering how Ritalin, Adderall, and Dextroamphetamine differ from one another.
Thanks for all your help! You good folks are so helpful I love it.
blueberry
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