Spent 5 hours on my phone lol
In college I heard that adderall would help me write my papers really fast when I waited til the last minute, what actually happened is I would spend all night on Wikipedia reading random shit “for research”
reminds me of this one time i got crossfaded and kept eating and making (low sugar! i was responsible!) brownies for like 5 hours
best fucking brownies ever but my intestines hated me for weeks. i felt like a rabid dog all i could do was consume, it tasted so fuckin good oml
If I wanted ADHD meds to help me focus on my writing (for some bizarre reason for the last decade and a half I’ve had trouble focusing on tasks I’m trying to focus on), would they work?
If you can start writing, they will help you keep writing.
Be aware, there’s some thought patterns that come with stimulants that may be reflected in your writing, overly explaining things, following one branch of thought too far while ignoring others, missing a very obvious vibe, over-confidence, and writing things you’ll look back and be like “Oh god how the fuck did I write this”.
You’ll probably want to go back a week later and cut half of what you wrote, and rewrite the other half, several times.
Ayn Rand is what happens if you take shittons of amphetamine and never question yourself nor let anyone edit your work.
Sartre and Philip K Dick used it more productively.
btw, Adderal is amphetamine, Ritalin is similar.
Write on stimulants, edit on depressants is the way I go. They’re such different headspaces
Edit: But at this point in my life I try to keep the stimulants to my prescribed meds and the depressants to weed
Ayn Rand is what happens if you take shittons of amphetamine and never question yourself nor let anyone edit your work.
That explains so much.
Rich kids take Aderall apparently
I read a few days ago that an online prescription start up company was created during the beginning of the pandemic and initially dealt with antidepressants.
But they weren’t making enough money. So they just started diagnosing random people with ADHD and prescribed them with adderall and made a shit ton of money lol
definitely one of those “results may vary” kind of things
Saved my marrage and is getting me through school. But sometimes I just organize every jpeg on my computer
If you’ll permit an extremely personal question: can you elaborate on the effects on your marriage?
they impressed their spouse by rearranging their wedding jpegs to make it look like a flip book
I dunno if I am a bad case or how the math works but it was very hard for me to reliably get all the necessary daily tasks done and being able to help my partner not having to stress about it made the biggest difference. Just skipping that stress and those fights kinda snowballed into things just working better if you can picture it. So with the extra time and energy handling other things became an option for me in ways they weren’t before
