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Re: Stress and it's affect on the effectiveness of Ritalin

Re: Stress and it's affect on the effectiveness of Ritalin2011-11-10T21:09:17+00:00

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munchkin
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This is just my point of view – no scientific research done… but I think the effect of the stress and the effect of the Ritalin are 2 separate things. I wondered about this question myself and I have been trying to pay attention to it.

I think that the stress decreases my mental abilities.

I think that Ritalin increases my mental abilities.

I don’t think that more stress = a need for more Ritalin. My reasoning: Ritalin, for me, works best at a specific dose. Too much or too little, and it’s not helpful. So even if stress is decreasing my overall abilities, I think more Ritalin would just make that even worse, because I would be overdosed, which would just make the situation worse, not better…

Again – purely my own thoughts based on about 4 months of Ritalin use…

-Munch

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