hi guys-this is a big rant to all those 'normal people' in my life who've been fortunate enough to scrape thro the motions without ever being labelled with some type of mental disorder when really we could all be diagnosed with something


i know everyone has a dif reaction to medication-one persons downer is anothers life saving balance or some just will work for him but not for her.
i'm just really frustrasted at the media or just the general public being so sceptical. cos there are some of us out there that really do have add and really do benefit from a little medication-i just wish the world would have an open mind for the sake of those it can help.


ive been on 10mg of dex 3 times daily, i'm also on like 4 eddronax tablets, luvox for ocd, and 2 ambien/or stilknox as we call in in aus a night.




so the dex REALLY helped when i first started but i've kinda lost it since xmas- not sure if its that my tolerance has built up to much (i find the dex to max last 2 hours a dose) or i'm on to much or to little or maybe i dont have add in the first place and my doc got it wrong? or maybe its just THE WHOLE WORLD BEING AGAINST THIS MEDICATION!!!!!!!!!!!

seriously everyone is a sceptic-add meds as we all know have the worlds worst rep-and yet i think they are actually good for me yet becoz everyone is telling me they're so baaaaaaaaaaaad ive sent myself crazy?

and now with all the media coverage about ambien i'm like-maybe this medication is evil to and making me go insane as well? when really i LOVE ambien-ive NEVER had a prob with it-the worst its ever done is sometimes i might ring people in the middle of the night and have no recollection-or i might rearrange my furniture in the middle of the night and not remember doing it-IVE NEVER DRIVEN
IVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING DANGEROUS!
for me personally ambien has been the BEST safest medication i have tried-


i'm so sick of all these know alls telling me my medication is bad bad bad! it's like they WANT people who find medication helpful to feel guilty about taking it, so guilty that they even start to believe the meds are bad and end up a basket case of insanity. then all those non meds believers will be happy?

i think my biggest risk faCTOR IN MY LIFE IS ALL THOSE DAMN KNOW-ALLS TELLING ME MY MEDS ARE GOING TO SEND ME CUCKOO.


TELL SOMEONE YOU'VE GOT ADD YOU GET THAT 'RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT' LOOK.


I'M SORRY FOR MY RANT


i am not a lunatic cos i have add-i just think a little outside the square of 'normal' which is noty a bad thing but a scary thing for the borimng public
nor am i a time waster cos of my ocd-ive created some exceptional artwork and pieces of music from this obsessive drive!
i'm not a weakling cos ive had depressed periods in my life-i just feel things alot-and on the up side when im bloody happy-i'm happier then most!
and its not that bad to have anxiety-from anxiety u can get the best energy!



i'm not insane i'm just a little different but that is what makes me special!

ive been on 10mg of dex 3 times daily, i'm also on like 4 eddronax tablets, luvox for ocd, and 2 ambien/or stilknox as we call in in aus a night.


I thought you mentioned here it was 10 mg dexedrine 6 times a day?

http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=537308#post537308

I thought you mentioned here it was 10 mg dexedrine 6 times a day?

http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=537308#post537308

I thought that too. Maybe sometimes they take 5 mg 6 times a day. Sometimes 10mg 3 times a day? :confused:

i'm not insane i'm just a little different but that is what makes me special!

That is so true. I wish people were not that afraid of everything that's a bit different.

I think ppl are so afraid of add drugs largely because they resemble street drugs. It scares them because they don't understand how it works with us. And they don't change because it is far more comfortable to hang on to their prejudices than to be open to have them refuted.

Oh God.. Ambien lol.

When we deploy they give us ambien because our flight schedule changes so much.

I would take it, go to bed and... wake up thinking I slept all night. My friends would come up to me and tell me that I had shown up at the beer tent to talk/drink for 3 hours doing crazy stuff and talking to random people I didn't know.

I'd also take one, then think it wasn't working when it was (it can put you in a daze and you don't think clearly) and I'd end up taking 2-3 total, then walk around doing random stuff.

Just be careful with it -- I did some crazy stuff, but I'd compare it to being drunk, not completely out of it. Other than the memory loss.

We'd joke around about people taking an upper like ADD meds with it, and we came to the conclusion that you'd run laps on the track while taking a nap.