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The other day I told a friend of mine that I never forget to take my ADHD meds because I fucking love my ADHD meds. I'm in my late 30s, I didn't finally get a diagnosis and meds until less than two years ago, and they have changed my entire life.
And he raised his eyebrow at me. We'd been discussing addictive medications a few minutes before, like the Tramadol I finally got from the pain specialist to take once a week or so to give me a break from my chronic pain, so I reassured him that methylpenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) is not addictive (at least not in people with ADHD).
His response? To raise his eyebrow even harder and say "Well it sure SOUNDS like it's addictive!"
And I had to explain to this man - who works in a healthcare related job by the way - that just because medication makes you feel good and helps you, just because you look forward to taking it, that doesn't make it addictive or dangerous. And he wasn't convinced.
The simple fact that I was excited to take a daily pill that has literally changed my life, after decades of fighting to get that medication, made him think I shouldn't be taking it so often. That it must inherently be dangerous.
I'm not even in America, but I'm pretty sure this attitude began there and then spread over here to Europe. This Puritan idea of "if something feels good, you must beware of it. Pleasure is dangerous, it is sinful, it is addiction, it is evil."
I know too many people who subconsciously believe that pleasure = addictive = dangerous = bad. Joy is a slippery slope to hell.
So here is your reminder for today that you don't need to be afraid of feeling good. If something improves your life, use it. Even if it is addictive - learn what that addiction means, whether the addiction is inherently dangerous or not, and whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks and risks.
My ADHD meds are, in fact, not addictive. But I will take them every day because they make my life orders of magnitude easier. I will enjoy them every time I take them.
My tramadol is addictive. I will still take it. I will keep it on a schedule to avoid becoming addicted, primarily because addiction in this case would mean reduced effectiveness. But I am not afraid of my painkillers. They are life changing.
Take your meds, everyone. Don't let anyone scare you away from doing something that improves your life.
#adhd#medication#ritalin#concerta#methylphenidate#addiction#puritan values#neurodivergence#actually adhd#take your meds
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taking Ritalin to do a specific task => a lot of pressure, miserable, probably took it for a task that I otherwise have a 5% chance of doing, brings the chance up to ~30% which is still pretty low, demoralizing when I fail
taking Ritalin to make a dent in crushing anhedonia/brainfog, without expectations about any specific task => do more things I like, less pathetic when jogging, tweet about male lactation with conviction
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Besties I finally got to be prescribed ADHD meds and when I tell you I feel like a God! I can do anything, I actually want to do things. I think one thought at a time, isn’t that crazy as hell. I went for a walk at 8AM instead of waiting for my brain to marinate for a few hours whilst staring at the wall. Wild shit 💀
I feel unstoppable. So help me God if this is how everyone feels all the time. You people are crazy and I get how you do the dishes and fold the laundry now
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I think the hardest thing abt adhd medication so far is when it wears off and I go right back to normal 😭
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This is so damn stupid. I'm trying to research the effects of stimulant drugs on female sexual development because I was prescribed Ritalin from 8th-10th grade, and I only developed what I would consider a normal libido a few weeks ago at age 23. I am also looking up whether this would be related to Raynaud's syndrome in any way.
Anyway, I had to go back and add the word "female" to my search, because every result I was getting was either a study done only on boys, or a link to a medical website that only mentions erectile dysfunction. None of the websites mention women unless you add "female" to the search. Nobody gives a fuck about women's health.
#medical misogyny#radfems please interact#radical feminist#ritalin#adhd#aspergers#aspergirl#methylphenidate
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How Not to Interrogate Your Enemy
tw: kidnapping, drugs
Synopsis: kidnapping Hero was a huge mistake. All Villain has to show for it is regret and a bad headache.
“I should not have forced those drugs down your throat.”
Villain threw the box with the rest of the Ritalin pills carelessly aside once again. There wasn’t any information on it that might be of assistance to them anyway. They’d checked. Five times, as of yet.
Of course rereading it over and over hadn’t magically changed the words printed on the stupid patient information leaflet either, and yet it had at the very least provided Villain with an immediate distraction.
Mercifully, Hero had finally managed to shut up for longer than their lungs needed to fill with a single breath of air. And not a moment too soon, as Villain almost hadn’t been able to remember what silence sounded like anymore.
Frowning, they rubbed the bridge of their nose. “I’d really hoped it might loosen your tongue and you’d let something useful slip sooner or later.” They sighed deeply. “But instead, you’ve just been babbling about some kind of … philosophical bullshit for hours. Hours! And honestly, half of it makes no sense whatsoever, and the rest …”
Why didn’t Villain have henchmen who could take care of situations like this? All the other villains they knew had henchmen! And lairs with functioning prison cells. And proper truth serums.
Why had Villain been sitting here for more than 20 hours now, in a cramped motel room, all alone with their captured hero?
“Ugh, I don’t know,” they complained aloud.
Hero looked up then, no longer so intently focussed on the ropes tying their wrists and ankles to the chair they sat in. The knots seemed to be the only thing about Villain's stupid plan that actually worked as intended. The rest was a complete disaster.
When Hero opened their mouth, Villain lunged to their feet and grabbed their bottle of water from the table.
“You must be thirsty, right?” They hastily unscrewed the cap and pressed it to Hero’s lips. “Here, you should drink something!”
Just, please, keep your mouth shut!
Their captive gulped down the bottle's contents without hesitation.
In Villain's honest opinion – and given the circumstances – some reluctance to accept a drink offered by an enemy would definitely have been in order. Not that it mattered; this was only water after all. As if Villain would ever consider giving Hero any additional drugs with possibly even more annoying side effects.
They took a deep breath. Then another.
Thankfully, Hero couldn’t drink and talk at the same time, which granted Villain another moment of peace and quiet. When their captive had emptied the entire thing, Villain begrudgingly set the bottle aside.
Pacing the room, they racked their brain for something to say that might convince Hero to let them rest for just a tiny little bit. Having had no more than two or three hours of sleep during the last two days, Villain was so exhausted their mind seemed engulfed in fog so thick they could hardly locate the words to form coherent thoughts.
They needed a break.
“Listen, Hero.” Villain’s voice took on a pleading tone, but at this point they hardly cared about dignity anymore either. “I just want to lie down for a few hours, okay? Please? I know you’ve got all these fascinating thoughts floating around in your head, but—”
“Oh!” Hero gasped. Their face lit up with vigour. “Let me tell you something really fascinating!” they said, way too enthusiastically and much too loud.
Villain flinched.
If Hero had noticed, they didn’t care. Instead, they started a new, insanely fast-paced monologue that, as all the previous ones had, lacked any kind of a core topic or apparent objective.
“Oh, for fuck’s sake …” Villain’s groan was almost a sob.
How much longer was it going to take for the drugs to wear off?
This was torture.
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#snippet#writing snippet#heroes and villains#whump#hero whumpee#villain whumpee#villain whumper#kidnapping#noncon drugging#Ritalin#hero x villain#hero/villain#writing#my writing#creative writing#fiction#writeblr#writers#rookie villain has no idea what they're doing#mistakes were made#lots of mistakes#lol#How Not to Interrogate Your Enemy
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I wish ritalin would boost my keratin production instead of making me cold 🥶
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I took my meds and I love everyone
#This the main effect concerta has on me#If you’re familiar with Ritalin- it’s the same but I take one pill a day instead of two#adhd problems#actually adhd#concerta#ritalin
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That moment when you are so fucking tired and you know damn well that the only thing that would help is taking your meds but it’s too late to take them because they are supposed to last 8 hours - and half of the day is already over - so taking them now would just end up making you even more tired in the long run.
#adhd things#adhd struggles#actually adhd#ritalin#adderall#adhd#relatable#adhd problems#mental health#adhd meds
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So here's the thing about having a post break containment on tumblr: if you make a mistake in the original post, there's absolutely fucking nothing you can do about it.
The people reblogging once you realize your mistake aren't reblogging it from your blog. They're reblogging it from someone you never even knew existed. If you edit the original, it does not affect the copies already being passed around.
You can make an addition to the post with a correction! But here's the thing. Posts tend to break containment if they are tagged and people see it in the tags they follow. But reblogs don't appear in tags. Only original posts do. So your addition will only be reblogged by people who follow you, and it's pretty rare for a post with a correction added in a reblog to break containment in the same way as the original.
So you wind up getting a lot of reblogs with angry comments about how you're wrong (and that's if they're being polite - the less polite ones will attack you rather viciously, which is not something I would wish on anyone). And even if you didn't make a mistake, if there's something you didn't make clear enough for Tumblr Reading Comprehension™️, you'll wind up inundated with angry comments from people who missed the point, and it's too late to go back and adjust your wording to make it clearer.
(That's why I'm making a new post for this instead of responding to the comments I got on the post in question, by the way. I'm hoping some of the same people who spread around the original might spot this one in the tags and share it around as well.)
So what is this about? I recently made a post about how a friend was worried that I was addicted to my ADHD meds purely because I said I look forward to taking them and they bring me joy.
The purpose of that post was:
Something bringing you joy doesn't necessarily make it addictive. (For fuck's sake stop being afraid of pleasure.)
Even if something is addictive, that's not inherently harmful.
Don't be afraid to take your meds just because they might be addictive. If they help you more than they harm you, take them.
I also made a comment about how my ADHD meds aren't addictive anyway. This is the point people have been pouncing on me about. So allow me to explain where that assertion came from.
My psychiatrist, an ADHD specialist who manages my meds: I know you're nervous about addiction and tolerance to meds, but don't worry. If you have ADHD, methylphenidate is not physically addictive.
My GP, who I got a second opinion from out of nervousness: Yup, your psychiatrist is right. You don't need to be afraid to take these. Take them as directed and you will not form a physical dependence on them. If you notice them getting less effective with time, though, you can always just take a break from them to remove any tolerance.
Me, after a year and a half of taking these meds: Yup, no addiction here. I guess my doctors were right.
So here we are. Two doctors and my own personal experience have assured me that ADHD meds are not something to be afraid of. Yet I keep seeing people afraid to take their meds because they're afraid of dependence. So why don't I do a nice thing in this post of mine and reassure my fellow gremlin-brained tumblrs that their meds are perfectly safe to take!
And to be fair, I've gotten quite a few reblogs with tags and additions and comments saying thank you, I was afraid to take my meds, even though they help me, but now I'm reassured that I shouldn't be scared.
And I think that's a positive outcome.
On the other hand, I'm getting some very angry comments from some people who seem to think I'm attempting to spread a vicious, intentional lie claiming that people with ADHD are immune to stimulant addiction and that I'm going to do all kinds of harm, presumably on purpose, because there's nothing I enjoy more than ruining other people's lives! 🙌
I would assume that anyone who thought about this for more than three seconds would realize that's not the case, but this is tumblr.
I've gotten angry rants ranging from "this author you've never heard of wrote a book where he defined addiction as inherently harmful, and therefore you're harming people by saying being addicted to something is not inherently bad!" to "STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION!!!" to "OP is making statements that are incompatible with reality!" and folks? I'm real fucking tired of it.
Is it possible that my doctors are wrong? Of course! Doctors get things wrong all the time, especially when it comes to stuff like ADHD! But yelling at me from across the internet and accusing me of lying is not helpful.
There is nothing I can do about the original post. I can reblog it with an addition clarifying that yes, everyone is capable of becoming psychologically dependent on basically anything in a way that would be considered addiction, and yes, that includes ADHD people and their meds.
To be clear, this does NOT contradict the intent of my original post: that ADHD meds are good, you should take them, medication making you feel good is nothing to fear, pleasure is not the same as addiction, addiction is not inherently dangerous, and according to my doctors, who are fallible human beings but my most trusted source of information as of the writing of that post, ADHD meds are not physically addictive - as in, your BODY will not become dependent on them to function. This is the definition of "addiction" I had in mind when I wrote that post - and I think in a lot of cases the thing upsetting people is that we don't even actually disagree on what we're trying to say, but there was a miscommunication in terms of what I actually meant.
If I could go back and edit that original post and have it change everywhere it's been reblogged, I absolutely would. I would clarify where my information was coming from and what definition of "addiction" I intended, and reiterate that even if something can cause physical dependence, that doesn't necessarily mean you shouldn't take it.
But I can't. That post is out there now and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.
Keep this in mind as you go forward in your tumblr journey, friends. If you come across a semi-popular post with a mistake in it, you can bet every bit of your ass that OP has heard about it many, many times already, probably in very impolite terms, and there is nothing they can do about the original post. Unless they're a massively popular blog, a reblog with an addition or correction will not be seen by the people spreading around the original.
And for fuck's sake, stop assuming ill intent on the part of people who say something incorrect online. There are people out there who intentionally spread misinformation, but those people are rare, and usually trying to get you to not vote democrat in US elections, not trying to encourage you to take your fucking meds. If you see a mistake, it's probably an honest one, and if you really want to correct it, be a decent fucking human being, be polite and kind, and try assuming good intentions on the part of the person who said it.
The person telling you to take your meds is not your fucking enemy.
Oh, and do me a favor and reblog this, please. I actually have very few followers so no one will see it if it doesn't get reblogged. Thank you.
#adhd#actually adhd#medication#ritalin#concerta#methylphenidate#addiction#misinformation#tumblr reading comprehension#stop being dicks to strangers online
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The fact that Ritalin was named after the dude-who-invented-it’s wife, makes it a milf
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This meth ain't shit
#adhd#ritalin#god ugghhhh#sniffs. i was hoping i'd feel something for my first time taking a pill but i'm just sitting here being useless as usual#god i have a deadline for this shot#i feel so down and discouraged for real :(
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One from the back of the folder - sauce unknown, probably reddit
#adhd meds#Ritalin#concerta adhd#adhd#adhd memes#adhd mood#adhd things#neurodiverse stuff#neurodivergence#medicated adhd#adhd tumblr
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Failed Relationships - Ritalin
When the time came, I took a test to find out what kind of relationship would complete me—fix me, if I’m honest.
You were too old for me, they said, but introduced us anyway. I was proud of your history, your bona fides, and even the way they talked about you on the street. You were shorter than I expected, you wore a hat down over your eyes. You answered questions with questions and made every interaction a shibboleth.
I won’t say you’d known too many, but perhaps I’d known too few, but you never had time for me. When we’d fight—when you’d have me breaking out in cold sweats metaphorical and literal—I was told the solution, always, was even more of you. More and more of you: can my heart take it? It did, for some time. If I say I still keep a memento of you with me, it is because in part of my brain you are still the answer.
Measuring my blood-pressure, three or four times hoping it would go down. Because we made beautiful art, I let you put my heart to race.
#character sketch#de facto love february#ritalin#methylphenidate#adhd meds#adhd#anxiety#depression#medication
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hahahahahaha oh man I just took my stay-awake-and-focused medication instead of my go-to-bed medication hahahah I'm SO FUCKED
#personal#ritalin#wish me luck y'all#I seriously considered forcing myself to throw up but decided my throat doesn't deserve the pain
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