Spent 5 hours on my phone lol
If I wanted ADHD meds to help me focus on my writing (for some bizarre reason for the last decade and a half I’ve had trouble focusing on tasks I’m trying to focus on), would they work?
Rich kids take Aderall apparently
I read a few days ago that an online prescription start up company was created during the beginning of the pandemic and initially dealt with antidepressants.
But they weren’t making enough money. So they just started diagnosing random people with ADHD and prescribed them with adderall and made a shit ton of money lol
If you can start writing, they will help you keep writing.
Be aware, there’s some thought patterns that come with stimulants that may be reflected in your writing, overly explaining things, following one branch of thought too far while ignoring others, missing a very obvious vibe, over-confidence, and writing things you’ll look back and be like “Oh god how the fuck did I write this”.
You’ll probably want to go back a week later and cut half of what you wrote, and rewrite the other half, several times.
Ayn Rand is what happens if you take shittons of amphetamine and never question yourself nor let anyone edit your work.
Sartre and Philip K Dick used it more productively.
btw, Adderal is amphetamine, Ritalin is similar.
Write on stimulants, edit on depressants is the way I go. They’re such different headspaces
Edit: But at this point in my life I try to keep the stimulants to my prescribed meds and the depressants to weed
Ayn Rand is what happens if you take shittons of amphetamine and never question yourself nor let anyone edit your work.
That explains so much.
So my inability to start a dreadful or boring chore is in fact a Skill Issue?
Unhelpfully I can tell you it might be possibly
It used to be easier. Then again, I didn’t used to have a smartphone and infinite internet.
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Do you find them helpful outside of work?
definitely one of those “results may vary” kind of things
Saved my marrage and is getting me through school. But sometimes I just organize every jpeg on my computer
If you’ll permit an extremely personal question: can you elaborate on the effects on your marriage?
they impressed their spouse by rearranging their wedding jpegs to make it look like a flip book
