What’s the difference between someone who takes a dose for their adhd vs someone who’s abusing amphetamines?
A bit of an interesting post but I wanted to ask this question coming from someone who’s been diagnosed with ADHD and struggled their whole life with addiction issues whether it’s food addiction or alcohol caffeine. I’m a 21 year old male and after struggling my whole never completing school I decided to get checked for ADHD and to not much surprise I was diagnosed I started out on vyvanse 30mg and the first few days was like as expected that honeymoon phase and in the back of mind it really felt to good to be true tbh felt as if I just unlocked the secrets to life and now medicated for my adhd I have my life under control and I can achieve everything I want. I took the 30mg vyvanse for a month on and off but started noticing the effects just wasn’t lasting as long as I’d like must have been building some sort of tolerance to it (I will say I still don’t understand the whole tolerance concept with these meds). It also started affecting my sleep so I swapped to dexadrine 15mg a day which worked a lot smoother just take one every few hours when needed. But this is where I’m confused when taking the medication I feel really good like an real calmness but this is where I don’t know if it’s because it’s treating my adhd or because I’m just high on amphetamines. I’ve never abused the medication and I don’t want to because that brings a huge amount of side affects that would further fuck up my life but what I want to know is am I just treating my adhd or am I just high on amphetamines and that’s why I feel good. I do also want to add that when medicated all my impulses and urges to drink alcohol or eat bad and stuff like that disappear and when on my anxiety is really low Just really confused on these concepts?