Re: Giving up on doctors.

[Anonymous]

After being diagnosed, I took Adderall for less than a year then tried to get by on my own. I’m about your age and have had huge losses – career wise and socially, because I stopped the meds. I think the overwhelming majority of people do better on meds. An exception might be if you have a job that is a great fit for an ADD type brain (such as sales, with a support person to handle the paperwork and scheduling for you) and a spouse who is willing to take on the home responsibilities that an unmedicated ADD person cannot keep up with.

Unless you have an exceptionally supportive situation like that, and have had counseling to learn to pick up on social cues or to outright ask people to be explicit rather than subtle, I think you are making your life harder by not taking the meds.

I have ADD, depression and anxiety and am on meds for all three. I should NOT have stopped the meds years ago – I lost out on a lot.

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