Daily reminder that untreated ADHD is associated with a 13-year reduction in life expectency
https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-and-stimulants-medication-fear/
Turns out that if you’re stressed out all the time because you have to mask your symptoms and force yourself to function your body gets all inflamed and you can’t take care of yourself.
love this opening up with someone experiencing withdrawal symptoms instead of like an actual problem with it
I know this is the slop community but just want to be sure people know that the daily mail absolutely is outright brain rot lol
Weirdly it does nothing to my heartrate. It effects my heart less than coffee does
I got SO MANY heart exams when trying to get my adhd medication. And even now I need to get an EKG every now and then
Same, though I did have those kind of problems when i took took more than I needed. I also had anxiety issues because of it too, but it just took changing doses to fix it.
Maybe I’m lucky, for me its made me calmer, happier, more motivated, focused and anxiety free, which is wild because I’m used to being a very anxious person
It’s helped me so much that if they restrict it for stupid political or economic reasons I will lose my shit
I should note that I take it for narcolepsy instead of ADHD, but I also can not live without it or else I will crash my car in the way to work. 😅
I don’t think they will, adderall / vyvanse are “productive” drugs and are abused regularly by the boug
The daily mail is such a rag.
‘There’s no way to know they’re safe if you take them for life because we’ve studied them for at most a few months, and most drug studies of this sort do not focus very thoroughly on adverse effects,’ Professor Joanna Moncrieff told the Daily Mail.
The remainder of the article cites multiple multi-year studies of stimulant use for treatment of ADHD.
Joanna Moncrieff is an anti-psychiatry pseudo-Marxist who gets wheeled out all the time in right wing rags. She is frequently cherry-picked to get the most reactionary interpretation of her position, and I think her position more widely against the “disease-model” of mental health is worth reading. But she does tend to come up with some batshit analysis at times that I really can’t stand by, like this position on ADHD meds that have been proven time and time again to be great at treating ADHD symptoms.
Under neoliberalism things don’t change to benefit humanity, they change when an individual is upset and has ties to power.
*Exception is a mass scale moral panic, that gets in the way of business.
