• grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Silly nosy question: what do you get out of Adderall? I’m prescribed ADHD meds and don’t get any recreational benefit from it, so I’m just curious what I’m missing out on.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Ask away!

      When I take adderall, I usually take 10mg or so. It makes me much more productive than I usually am. I have a giant list of projects that I want to do, but normally I just… don’t do them because of the effort involved.

      Or I start something and love it, then the next day I just kinda forget about it. It helps me make progress on my 1,000 Steam games I never play. I’ll actually sit down for a few hours and play a game, THE SAME GAME even.

      Last time I had some, I set up my mini server! She’s amazing. Next time I have some, I’m either going to reformat my main game computer, reformat the VR machine that’s been sitting in the living room for months and set that up, or learn UNRAID and set up my big server I have all of the parts and HDDs for. That’s been under the couch for like six months now.

      …when I write it out like that, I should prooooobably talk to a doctor.

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Sounds like you use it for about the same reason I do.

        Talk to a doctor! I found it much less stressful than I expected it to be. I started meds last year and my consult and check-ins have been all online. The biggest problem has been, ironically, remembering to take my meds constantly consistently.

        I’m a serial hobby-starter, but not a project-finisher.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      If you have ADHD, stimulants regulate you. If you don’t have ADHD, stimulants…stimulate you. Adderall is an amphetamine, so people without attention deficit disorders basically get a light meth high from it.