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by paglaghoda 233 days ago
Rest in peace to all the college dudes covering the whole syllabus within 24 hours of the exam
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It is always great to follow the instructions from a psychiatrist [1].

[1] https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/how_to_take_ritalin_...

This is just outdated, bad and dangerous advice that a ton of recent research invalidates.

1. Ritalin, and other stimulants are not cognition enhancing for non-ADHD adults and may in fact do the opposite.

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smart-drugs-can-decrease...

2. > Because the doctor will rigorously apply artificial and unreliable diagnostic categories backed up by invalid and arbitrary screens and queries to make a diagnosis. So after this completely subjective and near useless evaluation is completed, your doctor should be able to exercise prudent clinical judgment to decide if Ritalin could be of benefit.

What else can you do for psychiatric conditions? We don't have a magic ADHD-o-meter but know that it statistically impacts lifespan, health, etc. Even for more objective measures like blood glucose, BP, BMI, clinical interventions are based on discrete thresholds that don't exist in nature.

You should be careful with your comment either. There is no absolute answer about people with non-ADHD don't having benefits with Ritalin.
I miss her.
What happened? Did they pass or something or just stop posting or what?
TLP was doxxed in a way that threatened their real life psychiatry practice, briefly blogged on Tumblr under a different psuedonym, and has since had little online presence other than rare tweets and randomly dropping a self-published book on Amazon (_Sadly, Porn_ by 'Edward Teach').
Not a college dude, but i used to work on shits (including night shifts) and adjusting to and from a five-nights (23:30-07:30) shift isn’t that pleasant either.
I think you meant to say "...I used to work on shifts..."

That, or maybe try a laxative.

(Man, if ever there was a time I wanted emoji support on HN, this is it!)

ah fuck, you're right, i mistyped. yeah i used to work on shifts. thank you for letting me know, i can't edit it anymore :(
No worries, I just thought you might get a chuckle out of it :)
i did :-D