| > For many (not all) ADHD'ers, amphetamine or caffeine makes them sleepy. You're right, I was mainly speaking about people without ADHD using stimulants. > Unfair? This isn't sports. Nobody is being cheated by a study-enhancing drug. No, but it can lead to bad health effects for the student, and bad habits like dependence. > Interesting. FYI ADHD people feel none of that. I guess my ADHD diagnosis must be mistaken then? And my executive dysfunction must come from somewhere else... ADHD is not a single neurotype. As even the most basic example, multiple different expressions of autism can each have ADHD. > on stimulants ADHD people feel relaxed and normal, bringing them down from hyperactivity and allowing them to focus on their life. Stimulants still help me regulate my sleep cycle and focus, but I don't think I experience hyperactivity from not being on them. (anymore at least; when I was younger I almost couldn't sleep without melatonin. That resolved itself before I ever touched stimulants, though.) -- I have heard of people with undiagnosed ADHD self-medicating with meth. Slightly different than people without ADHD using stimulants recreationally. I personally hope to never touch meth because I heard it can ruin one's relationship with other stimulants, and I don't want my medication to become any sort of recreational thing because I need to depend on it and not seek highs, but I feel like self-medication can be perfectly valid if someone knows what they are doing. Big if though. |
I missed on first read that you said the stimulants only had that high for the first few weeks though. That sounds different from what I understand to be the neurotypical response.
> Stimulants still help me regulate my sleep cycle and focus, but I don't think I experience hyperactivity from not being on them.
You may have the distracted variation rather than hyperactive.