u/WeedWrangler

Hi all.

I’ve recently started stimulant medication and was surprised to find that, although it helps me focus, it isn’t a magic bullet. I’m still getting diverted, and I’m realising there are behavioural patterns that probably need to be addressed as well. Dissapointing.

I’m curious whether others have had a similar experience: medication gives you greater attention, but not always attention directed towards what you actually want to do, and some behaviours persist.

Has anyone found ADHD-specific counselling or coaching useful as an adjunct to medication? I’d be particularly interested in recommendations based on personal experience rather than just coaches suggesting themselves.

Please comment with any observations, or send me a DM if you’d prefer.

Thanks

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 55, and my doctor considers the diagnosis very clear. After titrating, I settled on 40 mg Vyvanse for just over a month. I’ve also been prescribed some Dex top ups, which have felt more gentle but that’s on top of the V at lunch occasionally.

What I’m struggling with is that V does not seem to be doing for me what they appear to do for other people. It feels a bit speedy and seems to make my existing ADHD traits (particularly multitasking and hyperfocus) more intense. I wouldn’t say it has made my ADHD worse overall, but it feels like it’s exacerbating some of its downsides.

I have been taking guanfacine for about a year and it hasn’t fixed the executive-function side of things, but it has been very helpful emotionally with RSD or whatever and I wouldn’t trade it in for anything but it’s not addressed the stuff i hoped stimulants would.

I’ve also had poor sleep for a while, and I’m wondering whether the combination of sleep deprivation and stimulants is contributing to crashes once or twice a week, where I feel exhausted and emotional, but also unable to sleep. I work for myself and today for example after being awake since 3am I had to crash at 2pm and felt very rocky. It’s been such a journey to get to this point w the meds I feel a bit dispirited that I finally worked out what’s going on w me and now I know I won’t be able to solve it.

Has anyone else found that stimulants either didn’t help much, felt too activating, or interacted badly with poor sleep? I’ll discuss it with my shrink next week, just interested in other people’s experiences.

I’ve been a happy MiniMax 2.7 token-plan user since it launched in February. While I’ve occasionally had to “garden” my bootstrap files, I’ve generally found it reasonably reliable. It has often required Codex or Claude Code to help write scripts and skills from the backend, but overall I’ve been pretty happy with it within reason, particularly given that, like many others, I moved to MiniMax to avoid the token costs we were discovering with OpenClaw. For a $10/month plan, it’s performed remarkably well for me to date.

However, I’ve noticed recently—possibly since MiniMax 3.0 launched—that it’s become even more unreliable than it was before. Some of that may be bootstrap file bloat, which again requires gardening, but the issue feels broader than that. It seems less consistent about maintaining memory, updating files, finding information that’s already available to it, and generally following through on tasks inside OpenClaw. I don’t know whether that’s a model issue, an OpenClaw issue, or some combination of the two, but it’s definitely made me start paying closer attention to the underlying model rather than just the harness.

At the same time, I’ve been using Codex more and more to write skills and scripts for OpenClaw. Like many others, I originally started working with OpenClaw using Claude, and it was incredible, as we all know. The problem, again like many others found, was that the cost was impossible for me to justify continuing long term. Ironically, I’ve found myself using OpenClaw less and Codex more, while still missing the persistent memory and personalisation that OpenClaw provides. I’m somewhat loath to leave the value of the MiniMax plan behind, but I’m also finding that I want more performance out of my OpenClaw setup.

So I’d be interested to hear from anyone using Codex via OAuth inside OpenClaw, particularly if you’ve moved across from MiniMax.

How does it perform in day-to-day use? Does it handle memory, soul.md, personalisation, long-term context and tool use well? Does it seem more stable than MiniMax? Does it engage well with soul.md, or do you find it works best as a coding model and less well as a general “chief of staff” agent?

I’d also be interested in how much using Codex as your main OpenClaw model actually chews through your plan limits, particularly if you’re on Max.

Any observations, positive or negative, would be appreciated.

FYI, I’m assuming most people who have this working have had Codex or Claude Code help configure it. If you’ve taken a different path to making Codex your default model in OpenClaw, I’d be interested to hear how you did it.

Thanks for your time. Interested to hear your thoughts.

M(56’5) just started Vyvanse today titrated to 30mg.

As a Gen X who was into punk and hardcore in the 80’s and took a decent amount of speed at the time, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it feels familiar. At that time speed never made me hyper it just made me calm, a bit euphoric and extremely good at pool.

Is it unusual to feel high?

Starting titrating onto Vyvanse today and my psychiatrist says I will have to stop drinking caffeine on it… hard for me, i have 2 teas and one coffee per day and fancy myself as a bit of a barista (wife concurs!).

Do you still drink caffeine on Vyvanse? How do you find it?

56M (diagnosed last year) starting Vyvanse (finally) via titration and curious what I can expect from ppl who remember the transition from pre to post medication.

Anything I should expect that might feel odd but is ok, or any warnings? My Dr said no caffeine!!