Anybody here ever been put in stimulant medication like adderal or Ritalin? If so what was your experience?
I think I was wrongfully diagnosed with ADHD as a kid up until age 25.
I was on Ritalin and Adderall at various times.
It made my heart go crazy, since I have Mitral Valve Prolapse, plus it made me very nervous/anxious.
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Did they interfere with or make worse psychotic symptoms or were you not psychotic at that point ?
At that point I wasn’t psychotic at all.
If someone is psychotic then it could probably make things worse.
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i’m on vyvanse and it has really helped me a lot. I got more focused and i have fgrown a lot ofver the past 3 months i’ve been on it. In terms of my way of thinking. I havent gotten psychotic symptoms or anything from it, but as a sidenote, i take my anti-psychotics every night diligently as well. I am on the highest dose of latuda, and my doctor is putting me on a new one tomorrow. He wants me to get off of stimulants, but I don’t want to because they have helped me so much so far and they are helping me lose weight (i get vyvanse for binge eating disorder, not adhd)
Went into psychosis the 6th time taking Dexedrine. I do not recommend. My cognition unfortunately and somehow got fried. One slip can take away your future and by the way I stopped taking it immediately, I knew I slipped. It shouldn’t have happened but I asked my disease to make me worse… I can remember where I was and what I was doing clear as day. I saw bugs too which have since gone away. The disease entered a new stage of its ability to manipulate and control me through subtle fear.
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oh, i should also mention that the reason why i went into psychosis the first time and started becomign szchizophrenic in the first place is because i was doing bath salt. SO really it all depends on where you are in your life, with your disorder, and if you are on medication for oyur schizophrenia.
Adderall caused my schizophrenia. Do not take adderall it will make it worse. I used to be a normal human boy. Now I am this. It is not a happy story. Plus, @MeghillaGorilla1 didn’t you get psychosis from drugs? Why would you want to mess with that stuff?
I was put on stimulants for cognitive symptoms and lethargy. It worked for a while then it started to worsen my psychosis.
I usually stay away from stimulants and activating agents.
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I’ve tried Strattera and Provigil. But these are stimulating in other mechanisms than say Adderall and Ritalin. I didn’t have problems with psychosis but they made me really anxious.
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I was on Adderall for adhd until I stopped working. I don’t think it made my psychosis worse, but it certainly didn’t help.
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I had a feeling it would @SunLion. Its just that I have such bad cognitive symptoms and even some catatonia, that I think a stimulant would be helpful.
thats what I’m afraid of too, is that my cognition is fried
This probably the wisest position. I’ve tried plenty of stimulant and adaptogenic herbs (guarana, ginseng, eleuthero root) and of course sarcosine. They all have benefit effects on cognition, motivation, energy within the first month, then they reach a gaussian optimum after what benefit declines and negative side-effects appear : inner tension, anxiety, irritability => derealization/+symptoms. My pdoc said me there are two major phenomenons in brain, like in a car : accelerator and brake pedals. Sarcosine and other stimulants are accelerators but they can speed too much after a given period. Then positive symptoms can appear if nothing balances and brakes the acceleration. Moreover he said that there is some kind of a biological inertia due to epigenetics barrier that made hard to “hijack” genetics by medications or supplementation. You can load you with maxi dosage of sarcosine without expected action on negative symptoms because of this inertia. He added that sarcosine as an amino-excitator could even triggers seizure if not tolerated.
I am not afraid, I know. I know that my cognition is fried. My energy levels too. I was on top of my game even though I didn’t work full time and do what Healthy people do. It is simply not fair.