Posted by helpme on July 14, 2006, at 14:50:15
In reply to Re: Amphetamine intake over time decrease creativity? » jonathanupr, posted by paulbwell on July 9, 2006, at 9:38:26
I read once that Andy Warhol took "two amphetamine pills every day" for most of his life.
> > I am looking into the issue of amphetamine intake over time as a factor in my decreased creativity. I've been on Adderall for about a year now at a relatively stable dose of around 25 mgs per day. Either one of two things is occuring, or both.... (1) the SSRI that I am on has inhibited my creativity, (2) the Adderall that I take has desensitized my dopamine channels over this past year, and thus when a creative urge hits me or could hit me I feel no spark or need to follow up on it. An interesting read I had on how our life occurrences stimulate dopamine production and sensitivity. I could very well see a dopamine agonist that acts on dopamine release and as a DA uptake inhibitor, crippling one's natural abilities to feel enraptured by the flow of life....what they may feel on a regular basis is the direct result of dopamine release when they take such an amphetamine.... On the other hand, Adderall has very much allowed me to show up for work 8 hrs a day and to get promotion after promotion... I can read a lot longer than I used to be able to without having boredom set in (used to set in and I'd get tired as well within 10 minutes of reading, now I can go on much longer). But I just feel so damn uncreative, I feel as if the world is tasted by everyone so why even write about it or express one's experience....very lethargic / apathetic. Or (3) the combination of 1 and 2 above.
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> > Any feedback, experience, or knowledge?
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> It sounds like you are getting some benefit from your med.
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> Last centries greatest Mathmaticians, Paul Erdos, took Dexedrine or Ritalin or BOTH everyday for the last 25 years of his life 1971-1996.
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> He is recognised as being one of the greatest Mathamaticians of last centery-and lived to 86yo.
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> He was challenged to give up the pills for 1 month-for $1000 and did,upon which his output sank, when collecting his fee, he exclaimed "you have set Maths back a month, and started taking his pills again.
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> Paul Erdos-The man who loved only numbers.
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> Cheers
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