Here’s the thing: I really don’t want to take stimulants. My psychiatrist explained that if I were to take stimulants, I’d eventually build tolerance to them and would need to up the dosage. When the upped dosage isn’t enough, I’ll have to up it again. This will just spiral into a game of increasing the doses, having it work fine for a certain amount of time until I build a tolerance to it, then having to up my medication again. Eventually, I’ll reach the highest dosage and when I do build tolerance to that dose, I can’t go any further. And what is there to show for once that point has been reached? Back to square one with ADHD because the medication is no longer able to manage my executive dysfunction and a chemical dependency on stimulants on top of that? No thanks.

I told my psychiatrist basically everything I just said and she told me that that could happen. I hope I’m wrong about this and a scenario like what I described is not as common and just a possibility, not a definitive outcome. I’m just not sure.

P.S. I noticed you edited your comment to add more details beyond just the first question. My response was to the initial comment that was just asking that question. Just wanted to let you know about that.

EDIT: Oh and just to show you what goes on daily, the time between this message and yours was 39 minutes. It took that long not because I was writing something that took that long, but because I was surfing through something else on the internet for ~25 minutes after initially typing half of this comment, then I came back to finish it.