What do you know about ADD?

[Malakar]

I don't know if it is impulse control or something else, but I am a "binary" learner. If something interests me, I focus on it completely, almost compulsively, to the detriment of everything else (and that includes eating and sleeping sometimes).

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.