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Anonymous
No offense to the medical industry, but perhaps you are looking for a magic cure in a pill.
It doesn’t exist.
Even if stimulants are a magic bullet – which for many of us they are – it doesn’t change the fact that you are taking amphetamines. Amphetamines make even non-ADHD people euphoric, filled with confidence, and goal-oriented. Unfortunately, with use, the ugly side of amphetamines start rearing their head. You start getting more tired than before, zapped of energy, and the days you don’t take it are starting to feel more like when you did take it.
I take very, very small doses of these drugs if at all.
Try as many behavioral things as you can. Getting an hour of vigorous exercise before doing anything else for me is far finer than anything the pharmaceutical industry has yet concocted. Think of the pills as tools you don’t need to rely on, but have as back-up.
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