Re: Anybody else feel like a zombie???

[Anonymous]

Hi all. I was diagnosed in 1977 and was forced to take Ritalin as well as being studied at our local Hospital. I never really got “coaching” in the way that the movie talks to, just a lot of fill in the circle questions and some lady timing me. After the tests she would let me play with the toys and just watch and time. My Mother kinda used the pills as a regulator when I would act out. I would take my daily (or twice daily??can’t remember) pill and if I acted out she would make me take another. It could have been because my dosage wasn’t working correctly or maybe I was just being a kid. Who knows. Anyway, I wanted to say that I didn’t like the feeling when I took the pills. I didn’t feel like me so I stopped taking them. I felt that I was underwater and that the sounds that would normally distract me were now coming to me through 10 feet of water.. In my early teens I got involved with some Martial Arts that focused on some Zen like mental training that I think allowed me focus in my studies enough to graduate. I find now that I need to be pretty physically active to regulate my anger issues and I recognize when I start to flit from one task to another and stop it in it’s tracks. I don’t know if Ritalin allowed me to develop the skills that I’ve developed to cope or if it didn’t.

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