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I made a post on here a while ago saying how uncanny the posts were to describing me near perfectly. I struggled with this disorder for 30 years. Nerfing myself for 30 years. Not being the best husband to my wife for 6 years. Not the best father to my son for nearly 2 years. All without knowing it.

I have now been on 20mg XR Adderall for a little over 3 months - it has been absolutely life changing.

I'm more attentive. Things are much more easily committed to memory. Menial tasks no longer feel like a huge burden anymore. I can actually read a page in a book I'm interested in without completely forgetting what I've read by the end of the page. I've had a small, but annoying headache for years every single day - chalked it up to genetics as my mom has a disorder than can cause the same thing. The headaches are gone. I can only assume they were brought on by the stress.

Gang, if you're at all considering you might have some form of ADD/ADHD, please go see your doctor. I had a thousand reasons why I didn't want to/need to go beforehand, but I'm so very glad I finally did.

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[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago

That would mean each person gets a custom pill, right?

Also I'm not a psychologist but from a control theory perspective, there might not be an optimal dose? The optimum might be an interval of doses, and/or the optimum might change with time. And then the consequences of using a suboptimal, preset dose might be at least a good solution. We could probably quantify this mathematically...but stepping away from a control theory perspective: I live this experience so at least in my case, the preset dosages have worked fine.

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