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Re: Are you less antisocial on amphetamine than MP » linkadge

Posted by g_g_g_unit on December 25, 2009, at 2:33:08

In reply to Re: Are you less antisocial on amphetamine than MP, posted by linkadge on December 24, 2009, at 14:23:00


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> Hard to say, some people say that stims unleash (or harness) creativity, other people say they make their thinking more boring and linear.

i donno. i guess for me, creativity was always a way to compensate for a lack of linear/organized thinking, if that makes sense; since my thoughts never appeared to me with great clarity, i'd often end up voicing them in more convoluted ways. i definitely feel like a touch more linearity could be beneficial.

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> Ritalin can be good spark for changes in ones life, but maintaining those new habbits is the hard part.
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yeah. i'm in CBT, which definitely helps, but i also feel the process is really limited by my incapacity to do certain things i would like to.
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> The only way you'll know is if you try. Some people say that dexedrine is a little better in terms of cognition. I don't know. There were aspects of dexedrine that I really liked, but overall I think I like ritalin a little better.
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well, that's the tricky part - since stims are so frugally prescribed where i live, i cannot obtain them for general concentration difficulties (though some kind of inattentive ADD/OCD combination is suspected by my therapist). i'm seeing a separate ADD doctor (trained only as a GP) in order to obtain ritalin, and will in all likelihood be prescribed dexedrine next.

i have no moral issues with this - i have no history of drug abuse, and will do what it takes to get the best treatment i can. the only problem is that i feel like stims might be useful as part of a treatment package, but the mood rollercoaster they induce makes them difficult to tolerate as monotherapy. unfortunately, the GP in question doesn't really deal in AD therapy, instead treating more run-of-the-mill ADD cases. i am terrified - not being monitored by a psych - of experiencing stim psychosis.

i may trial the dex, and then, if it's clearly beneficial, inform the next psych i see. but just in case, are there any obvious preliminary signs of stim psychosis to watch out for?

 

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