Feels like every week someone here is touting the idea of ADHD meds being this solution, all these people are just undiagnosed, there’s an unfair stigma against, and I feel compelled to bring up that I bought into that thinking, got a legit diagnosis and took meds as prescribed, they triggered mania in me and nearly ruined my life.
I tick all the ADHD boxes but I managed to make it through college without meds so never should have started.
Psychiatry is broken and handing out prescription amphetamines to everyone who can’t focus is as bad as an idea as it initially sounds.
I mean comments like this are the reason there's such a stigma against medication. It's kind of ignorant to say that "psychiatry is broken", "my meds ruined my life", or "I made it through school without them so I never needed them" as if none of those things had anything to do with you.
Someone in the same situation might feel much the opposite, but they also shouldn't use their experience to convince people that their attempt at treating a condition they have is inherently a bad choice.
You might just be smart / high IQ so you could still stumble through college. Imagine what more you could of accomplished if you didn't? Higher abilities need higher standards.
Also you don't have to actually take the medications at all to get an ADHD testing battery. Then you'll know if you actually have ADHD or if you actually didn't. If you don't then your comments are a bit insensitive. Self-diagnoses of various medical conditions by the untrained is notoriously inaccurate.
I tick all the ADHD boxes but I managed to make it through college without meds so never should have started.
Psychiatry is broken and handing out prescription amphetamines to everyone who can’t focus is as bad as an idea as it initially sounds.