Finally! First experience with Ritalin, what do you think?

[Yeah]

Hi everyone.

Yesterday I finaly got my very first prescription of Ritalin.

I am still with my old shrink and we still work on my breathing Actually hes helping me to get into a regular rythm of meditation and is enforcing that with some NLP and hypnosis.
Sounds odd, but it does actually help me be more balanced and find the strength to look at things that I normaly don't want to see.

Anyway, he send me to another doc who was on vacation and yesterday, more then a month after my first visit with that guy, he put me on 5mg Ritalin, per day.
I am to take it once in the morning to see how I react to it, I guess. He still has some reservations regarding wether or not I have ADD, but at some point when I told him again everything that happened after I stopped smoking he decided to give it a go.
He said that I should stop it when I am having excitations or problems sleeping.

I know that a lot people here don't feel anything, or not a lot, when they are first on such a low dosis. The strange thing for me is that the 5mg started working after about 20 minutes and are wearing off right now, some 4+ hours after I took it.
The sensation is very odd. I felt a bit uplifted, but not very excited like the heartrace coffee type of excitement.
Actually it feels close to the way I feel after meditating in terms of perception and calmness. Although I was feeling a bit unsettled but not really agitated or something like that, probably that was because of the new things happening.

Once or twice I was at this point where I lost a trail of though while speaking and had this "ok, now just said something dumb" sensation. But all in all I have this feeling that my brain is finaly working again.

Who wouldn't be excited about that?

What do you think?

[Ian]

Yeah it sounds like you are onto something. Time will tell I suppose. The other things you are doing are no doubt helping too. It's nice to see you making some headway.
Cheers! ian.