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Really good post @pigmonkey, and I’m with you in how you feel about taking the Ritalin. In fact I was taking it something like a year and a half ago. Stopped, and I’m really suffering now because I stopped. I won’t blame the failed relationship I recently gave up on, on my ADD, or the fact that I stopped taking the Ritalin. But it’s a big factor.
I guess it’s really a matter of weighing the negative side effects against the positive. I would have to say that it’s not likely the gal I’ve been hanging out with would want to hang out with me if I did go back on the Methylphenidate (generic Ritalin). But it’s likely that I would handle all the negative crap I say about me inside my head better. I noticed the stuff did slow down my fast moving brain quite a bit. It was big a relief.
It just messed with my pride problem a lot, needing to take psyche meds… It’s possibly the same thing you’re going through. I feel like I’m a flawed human being. But we all are. Not just us ADDers, but humanity as a whole.
Fortunately for the folks in this camp. TotallyADD. An important piece of our puzzle has been found. I’ve been saying the “meds are about 15% of the solution” for quite some time, but I know it can be much more for some folks.
I hope you decide to give it a try. Consider it guinea pig duty. Or maybe guineapigmonkey duty better yet!. The stuff does wear of in about 2 to 5 hours depending on lot’s of other things. So it’s really not a huge gamble to eat one a couple times a day for a while. Till you have a chance to really look at it from more than just a couple of the perspectives that come along in your ADD brain.
Let us know how it works out for you. There’s not a lot of dudes in this forum, so I’m gonna just encourage you to keep on coming around. I got helped by your sharing, so thanks.
Now that I’m back into the fast track of single-hood. I’ll have more time to come back and probably goof off too much here.
fair warning you guys… :-D~
Peace.
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