Medicating Myself Without ADHD Medication
Things I don’t want:
To take ADHD medication
To have to take a pill every morning
For you, or your child or a loved one, to have to take ADD medication
Things I don’t want:
To take ADHD medication
To have to take a pill every morning
For you, or your child or a loved one, to have to take ADD medication
There are a lot of hot button issues around ADHD. Not just around medication, or the cost of getting a proper diagnosis, or the ongoing stigma and dismissal, that ‘ADHD isn’t real.’
In particular, there is the contentious claim that, “people with ADHD have real strengths.”
By adulthood everyone has found tools to cope and manage their ADHD, whether it has been diagnosed or not. Some self-medicate with addictions to work, sex, dangerous activities, high risk sports. But many also end up using illicit drugs. As Doctor Sam Chang explains, the number on choice for ADHD folks is Cannabis. And though marijuana has always been surrounded by myths, in fact, the more ‘enlightened and informed’ of us are simply accepting a whole new set of myths.