So people are telling me at school that I don't show emotion. And this makes me really self conscious and I Find myself forcing to show emotion. I wonder if its from the adderal xr that I am taking? I'm not really sure but Id on't get it. I don't really like the people i go to school with because they get on my nerves adn are just annoying and immature. I've got 9 months of nursing school left so its not too big of a deal for me. But I'm just wondernig if this is a side effect of the meds? I really like how the adderall is working fo rme but I don't like this emotionless that I seem to be getting from it. I never noticed it until an instructor brought it up to me but now I think about it alot and I wonder if i really am like that. Is this a common thing that happens with adderall?
I guess its making me too seroius? When I was on strattera.. which i think stopped working i would joke around and kid alot and wouldn't take al ot of things serious which needed to be fixed.. i almost failed school because of that. But now sometimes i think im too serious. Will this go away with this time or am i goign to be seroius for the rest of my life?

I'm new to Adderall, so my observations should be taken as provisional; however, I've noticed my negative emotions (anger, irritibility, impatience) have subsided -- nothing really bothers me, but I don't feel without emotion. In fact, I laugh a lot more now. The anxiety med, clonazepam could be helping here though.

Ultimately, talk to you doctor about it. You're happy with it but not all of it. That was my recent complaint to my doctor. He said to keep my expectations realistic because we are treated several things: One thing gets better but exaserbates another.

I feel more assertive, less timid, less emotional in a mood-swing kind of way. Each person's different. Hang in there....

....Adderall seems to help my more negative ruminations and allows room for my positive emotions. While I don't experience it as "creating" these emotions, it certainly seems to allow me greater access to the optimistic side of things. People around me have noticed the same thing, often describing me as more outgoing, friendly and compassionate on the days that I take Adderall.

I've often wondered if people experiencing flat affect might be overmedicated (or under?). I think there can be a sort of hyperfocus that occurs with some people on some medication and that this single mindedness is what is really going on as opposed to the absence of affect. Disclaimer: this is just a hypothesis, and not something that I could back up with research.

I concur with Yogi 4.2's hypothesis...This has been my experience as well.

I have it sometimes. People at work say I am more serious. I do notice it though. I just want people to take me a little more seriously. They just see me and think, oh she pretty and a dumb blonde. But I really do have a wonderful mind. I guess Adderall makes me realize that more.blahblahblah *high* It can be a side effect of the drug for sure. Everyone is so different so it's hard to say. Well if you aren't the same now, personality wise, then It's a side effect of the drug.

well I am on dexedrine and was on adderall and get the proverbial "zombie child" stereotype (back in the days when ritalin was the "demon drug") still as an adult on any stimulant... I complained recently to my doctor that I "felt like Terri Schiavo" and he said I am acting normal... but w/o meds I act like a rapid cycling bipolar II so I think the mood issues with ADHD can be corrected with meds I guess... I get used to it because I have no impulse control at all...