Posted by BarbaraCat on March 26, 2002, at 0:51:19
In reply to About Possible ADD » Mags, posted by IsoM on March 25, 2002, at 22:43:40
Anyone who has a clue,
My drug of choice when I was in my late teens and early twenties (back in the early '70's) was methadrine. It was the only substance I recall where I would feel sooooo mellow, focused and centered. It was a Zen-like no-thoughts space that I sought forever after. I know now that I was self-medicating via the street scene. Even so, speed in abusive amounts is a killer, no doubt about it. I also stayed up for days, crashed and burned, and fried my delicate system.
A question I'd like to put out there is: this suggests to me that I have ADD in addition to depression. However I also have a tendency towards severe anxiety and panic disorder. I'd hesitate at this stage to take a stim because I do not want to elicit a strung-out spin into hypomania or compromise my fledgling health and immune system. I have an appt with my pdoc this week. He's very wary of prescribing a stim because he knows I had a bit of a Jones in the past. The bottom line of my question is, how do speed-type drugs affect those with serious affective/anxiety disorders? - BCat
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