Can it make you think you’re going crazy?
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Hmmm? I don’t think so but maybe. I use to take Adderall for ADD (before I was MI). With me I just simply could not focus. I was all over the map. The Adderall really helped me to focus. I was taken off Adderall when I became mentally ill because it increases dopamine in the brain. I have only been MI 2 years. Before I was sick I never felt crazy or anything like that from my ADD. Just unable to focus or get on a task.
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Thanks I think I have bad add underneath my depression and I’m wondering if a stimulant might help me. But also afraid that it could make me crazy too. I’m super sensitive to any drug I touch these days
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Ya, from what I have heard, they don’t like to prescribe anything that can stimulate dopamine which is what Adderall does. I would love to go back on it. It really helped me a lot but it isn’t good for my MI
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I kind of want to try a stimulant too but I know it would be stupid.
I got an ADHD diagnose 8 years before I became psychotic. I was all over the place, resless, fidgeting, talking all the time. 1 million ideas rushing through my head and I never finished any of them. I could not focus long enough to do it.
I was on a low dose Concerta and Ritalin for 5 years. When I became psychotic and stopped sleeping completely, my pdoc tried to increase my ADHD meds. I got more psychotic from that, so she took me off them completely. And I have not been allowed to touch any stimulants since then.
Abilify has made me calm. That fidgeting and restlesness is gone. Also my uneasy feeling when nothing happens.
I wonder if I really have ADHD. My mom does not believe that.
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I have ADD. It’s really hard to stay focused. I take a low dose of strattera and it helps a little bit.
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I don’t have ADD but I have Aspergers. Why do some people with Aspergers take stimulants? I know I can’t because of my schizophrenia. Closet thing I’ve taken was Alpha Brain. It made me smarter and more focused but it probably made my psychosis worse.
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I was assumed with ADHD as a child, I couldn’t concentrate in class with being more occupied on drawing things. I was a very hyperactive and obnoxious child, constantly moving.
As I hit puberty, shortly after, I was more so appearing as the inattentive type of ADHD, I still had some tendency to get up and move, I’d fidget some times, but mostly I was easily tired, couldn’t focus, and very laid back with very little hyperactivity.
I got put on Concerta at age 16, it worked well for 3 years, my tendency to drift off and daydream, as well as manage to keep good focus and concentration, along with motivation, was heightened.
I had to stop around age 20, due to my insurance not covering it at the time.
Come last year, I started to hallucinate and became VERY anxious and depressed.
I ever wondered if during the time I had my inattentive diagnosis, if maybe I was actually exhibiting early signs of psychosis the entire time. Then again, I don’t know if Concerta would’ve exacerbated or brought on the inevitable. I will say, antipsychotic medication and antidepressant, is working swell for me.
The core symptoms of ADHD like inattention, difficulty in regulating behaviour and emotions are strikingly similar to the difficulties caused by disrupted sleep.
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One guy told me that a woman told him that having ADD was like having ten different radios blaring at you at once.
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