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Honestly, I feel more like myself on meds. Before, my brain felt like static, so many ideas, but I couldn’t follow through on literally anything. Now I can actually bring my ideas to life instead of just thinking about them in a chaotic way. Just my experience but I wonder if others have felt the same?
For the first time in my life I don’t feel out of place. I’ve been taking meds now (I’m in my early 50s) for nearly a year and I’m actually flourishing.
My cousin has a great perspective on this: alot of medications are designed to make me
more palatable for the world; they do not necessarily make the world easier for me
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That would be your personal experience.
My ADHD meds honestly made me less acceptable? The twenty streams of thought that were so jumbled before in my head suddenly became clear enough to get out, so the ability to .. stop talking became too difficult sometimes that I even annoyed myself and had to go off. Even low doses.
yes, for me it was about dosage. I basically had no thoughts on my initial dose. I went off it for a while and we tried again a few years later with a much lower dose.
I feel like it is kind of romanticized. The truth for me, off the meds, I can’t get anything done. It’s still a struggle on them sometimes! Even if I did have some amazing creative ideas off, they won’t amount to much when I can’t follow through.
For sure for me it’s just demoralizing to think I’m not “acceptable” without it. That’s the hard part. Honestly I don’t take it because I feel “normal” on it I still feel outcast and other and am still random. I don’t see a difference but apparently others do. So I guess I’m just used too myself ha.
For me and my medication management squad, it was about finding the right dosage and schedule. Discuss with your healthcare professional about a different schedule. Like 4 days on/3 days off.
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I don’t take mine most weekends or holidays. Only if I need to be firing on all cylinders for something. I know this doesn’t work for everyone, but it works for me.