Author: travispnorton
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 7:03 pm
| spacecataz wrote: |
| Indeed, it seems strange, but the more in therapy I talk about it (yes, I’m not just a robotic pill popper, I actually go through all the hard as hell mental health work!) the more it seems the reason I didn’t catch my ADHD symptoms earlier in life is because I spent half of it self-medicating with booze, pills, and even an eating disorder. The adderall I was prescribed is simply an experiment to see if it helps with my daily sober life which I oh so struggle with now. Would it be better if I went back to medicating with a different type of bottle? Vodka is way worse for you than amphetamines yet I can go walk down the street and legally pick op 20 bottles if I wanted. The system is fucked. To be honest I’d rather fuck ALL of this shit and smoke a bowl. But they won’t let me. GRUNT! |
I certainly hope you didn’t take offense to what I was saying as I was saying it in a pretty general way. I myself was diagnosed with ADHD as a young child and was given amphetamines and ritalin until I was of the age to ‘cheek’ and toss them on the way to the schoolbus. As someone else said, just because I believe that ADHD is probably overdiagnosed it certainly does not mean that you don’t legitimately have it and can’t benefit from treatment. Obviously you’re working with a therapist and doctor who are privvy to your medical information and no one here is, so who are we to say? As I said, there is absolutely no contradictions between any of the amphetamine compounds and buprenorpine except that, in general, amphetamines are prone to abuse and doubly so within populations who are already prone to abuse in general. I never personally abused amphetamines because, as I said, I simply didn’t like the way they made me feel…there was no reinforcement for me to take them at all let alone abuse them. I’m glad to hear that what you’re doing is working out for you!
-Travis