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Originally Posted by MaDalton
ADD is a fake disease to sell addictive drugs that make drug companies billions in profit  |
my dad is a pharmacist and i used to always hear him talk about ADD being over prescribed as an excuse for kids acting up. i used to believe it was a fake disease as well.
in '97 i started college. in '02 i stopped going to college. i had ~9-12 hours (depending on grades) that needed to be done.
my wife is a 1st grade teacher and we talked about ADHD all the time (ADD isn't a proper term anymore). she would always tell me how i'm worse than some of her kids with how little i can focus. so i went to my dr.
there is an organizational pill. not exactly, but it's one of the major functions. straterra is for ADHD and it's not a barbiturate. i tend to 'like' things and was really concerned with narcotics and getting addicted, so i started with straterra. you have to build up to the dose. after 3 weeks, my office was spotless. everything was in it's place and my life had changed. only problem, it made me sick as shit. back to dr.
vyvanse (someone mentioned above) is far and away the best drug for ADHD on the market right now. it's powerful and long lasting (almost too long). i started on that and loved it. then i changed ins and it wasn't covered. 165 a month is too much. i'm on adderall now and take it twice a day. my organization sucks but i've never gotten so much done. i started all this last january and spent most of 2010 taking classes.
one class was a psychology class regarding adolescents and behavior. ADHD was a major section and i learned a ton. it's easy for people without ADHD to call it shit, and that's fine. but consider yourself lucky. i'm mad i didn't pursue this course earlier in life. i'm 33 and just graduated college. going back to school with my new friend (adderall) was a completely different experience. i made better grades and found participating in class was easier because i knew what was going on. while most people grow out of ADHD, ~15% don't.
congrats sharky on finding this out. it's a life changing event. *ADHD is over-prescribed. i will not discount that at all. but it's a real issue and people dealing with it aren't always bad kids.