What do you know about ADD?

[Raz]

I'm the same way. When I work on something that has my interest, I'm incredibly more productive. When I try to force myself to focus on something I'm uninterested in, I find it very difficult and my mind tends to wander a lot.

I tried Aderal (it's very easy to get it prescribed to you, which is a bad thing, I'll get to why later).  It helped me concentrate on everything better. However, taken every day, the effects subsided, eventually just making me normal when I took it. After a while of getting used to it, at night when I came down off of it, I got really depressed, and it got worse and worse. The weird thing is that it took me a while to realize it was the medication causing it, despite the fact that it happened every night at the same time and got progressively worse. It worked on my mind in the background, twisting my thoughts and perceptions, and really had me tricked. Anyway, it got so bad that I started having suicidal thoughts, which is WAY beyond my normal mental scope. It would've been nice if I had been told this was a possible side effect. So you see, it's dangerous to prescribe these mind-altering drugs so loosely, and not even give out warnings of possible detrimental side effects.

Sad that most doctors prescribe this drugs to everyone :( This type of medicine should be reserved for only some cases and should be carefully monitorized because of the risks the drug may have; you just probably enounced all the adverse effects of aderal :) (tolerance, depression, dependence on the drug, etc).

All antidepressive or neuroleptic drugs should be used with caution and the doctor is responsible of whatever will happen because of them if he did not inform the patient of its side effects or put the patient on vigilance.