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Lo and behold, after your kind blessings, I dug through a pile of belongings in the back of my closet, and found two pristine boxes of Ritalin, just ripe for the taking. I knew there had to be some of the fuckers lying around around haha
I have only mild ADHD but never found Ritalin all that effective. Better than nothing though. Adderal and dex are definitely way better
I'd say my ADHD is quite mild. You wouldn't be able to tell at a glance, and I'm used to working hectic and cognitively taxing jobs without my meds, though they do help.
I'd say Ritalin was 6/10 effective for me, on a platonic ideal where 10/10 would have me locking in and working till I drop. It does help me focus, and I simply can't study without meds. I'd have flunked med school since my old habit of cramming at the last minute no longer cut it as the textbooks approached the dimensions and weight of a healthy newborn, if it hadn't been for Ritalin.
It's mostly the side effects and come downs that put me off it. I get anxious and jittery, and even taken early in the day, it makes me insomniac enough to be debilitating. This is mostly just bad luck and idiosyncratic, it gives my brother, who has ADHD worse than mine, terrible headaches at the lowest dose. He breaks his tablets in half just to try and get by with less.
If you read Scott's review of stimulants, the one that's consistently the cause of rave reviews is desoxyn, which is a polite way of saying meth. At actually therapeutic doses, it works wonders, but it's not available legally in the UK, and most psychiatrists are scared to prescribe it even in the States.
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