Reply To: Adderall Agitation / Anxiety

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kylep –

Im on XR…

People are telling me that I am on a short fuse, I snap easily…things like that. And I too am facing everyone blaming it on my new meds. Do you think that being on the Adderall is causing an inability to vent any stress, causing any supressed anger/frustration…to settle and stew… so that each time we get frustrated we just lash out in these short bursts?

I feel like I have no patience… I get aggrivated or frustrated easily. And the people who know that I am on these meds are blaming it all on the new medication… At least the ones that are getting the short temper.

I am having a really hard time though determining if this is because of the meds or because coinsidentally I am starting to loose my patience on my own during the same time I happen to have started on this medication

I only recently started taking adderall, however I was diagnosed when I was 13 and on adderall for about 5 years when I was in grade school. stopped taking it when I graduated. Back then it was my parents and teachers who noticed something possibly not right. But now that I am an adult I notice things on my own. Adderall helps me focus and consentrate, my brain is no longer running a million miles a minute…I feel like I am able to still think about all those things , but now I can compartmentalize, and process everything one at a time and for lack of a better word…better.

I guess I am still a little nervous about bringing this up to my Dr. because I like the effects of the meds as far as my thinking… I don’t notice the outbursts, or at least I don’t feel like they are always my fault… but Im afraid he will change my perscription to something else or lower my dosage and I won’t get the same things out of it that I get with Adderall… I know adderall works, and how

 

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