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[medievil]

If patience, long term thinking and motivation remain an issue please post here, i may have some ideas after my personal experiences.

 

Greetings

[jcc80]

Motivation has certainly been my Achilles heel for... well, as long as I can remember. Amphetamine has been somewhat useful but tolerance grows, of course, plus it never helped my avoidance of unpleasant tasks.

I've always enjoyed your posts here and on m&m back in the day, so looking forward to hearing what you're up to here.

[medievil]

Motivation has certainly been my Achilles heel for... well, as long as I can remember. Amphetamine has been somewhat useful but tolerance grows, of course, plus it never helped my avoidance of unpleasant tasks.

I've always enjoyed your posts here and on m&m back in the day, so looking forward to hearing what you're up to here.

Have you ever concidered memantine for this development of tolerance if amphetamine initially works?

[jcc80]

I've certainly thought about that. But thinking back to when I originally got prescribed stims, they really never helped with goal-oriented behavior that much anyways; just mainly made me feel great, but I was just as likely to get focused on doing something unimportant.

[protoject]

I find that the ADHD meds were effective to some degree sometimes but that they always came with more complications, i.e. amplifying anxiety, amplifying dysphoria from my depression etc.

 

I am not sure if memantine lowered my tolerance to ADHD meds. I believe it's possible that it's apparent boosting of stim effects was probably due to its D2 agonism. But who knows.

[mandaryn]

downregulation has made even high dose ineffective, but the absence makes me feel like...well, I don't feel anything. I wish I had never accepted medication, because even a distractable, inattentive state (with the joys and tragedies of life) is better than total anhedonia.