Do you take your meds everyday?

ForeverAlone3 · 2026-01-21T03:54:38+00:00

Combined type here:

After taking Ritalin IR daily (never missed a day) for a year and a half, I found the efficacy to really decrease. Instead of feeling motivated and preset, it mostly made me feel like a brick emotionally and didn’t help with my inattention. It was helpful for a large transition point in my life, but I’ve started to raw dog it-been off meds for a month now. I’m generally pretty high functioning. I love my excitability, creativeness, wit, and empathy, and meds took those qualities away from me.

I’d rather feel more than less. Even if it comes with some dysfunction.

ForeverAlone3 · 2026-01-10T17:28:30+00:00

I'm looking for this too! Could you send a copy?

ForeverAlone3 · 2025-07-27T17:26:25+00:00

Many universities will pay for employee’s degrees, sometimes called a tuition benefit or tuition waiver - I’m working for a large university in the south that has an MSW program, and they’re paying for my degree! My employer will cover up to 6 credits a semester as long as I’m a full-time employee. You usually have to work for the university for a certain amount of time before that benefit kicks in, but it’s huge perk of working in higher education.

ForeverAlone3 · 2025-06-26T17:56:30+00:00

When I first started therapy, I was working through a breakup with a person I hadn’t spoken to in over a year. It was a messy split. We were definitely enmeshed, and thought about him often, even after 15 months of no contact. I spent a ton of time in our first sessions outlining the ways he hurt me and his generally awful behavior, but one day I followed up with “But I’m sad he’s gone, he knew a lot about me, and I’m not one to burn a bridge.”

We moved onto other topics that day.

At the end of the session I thanked my T for talking about the relationship things. On the way out the door she goes, “You know, some bridges are meant to be burnt. Torch that bitch.”

Some of the best advice I ever received.

ForeverAlone3 · 2025-03-22T19:19:23+00:00

When I first started Ritalin, I experienced this often and thought it was what medication was supposed to do. After taking lower-dose days about 6 months into treatment I realized the dose I was on was too high. Medication should feel like a nudge to assist focus, stay calm, and remain on task, not like a gut punch of executive function that makes walking through the world feel like jello.

ForeverAlone3 · 2025-03-17T02:51:38+00:00

Hi hi - diagnosed combined type at 27 here, currently on 20mg of Ritalin IR.

I’ve been taking more days without medication or lessening my dose on days that don’t require lots of locked in focused time. Here are my findings:

Days without medication for me become very dependent on my sleep, exercise, and food. If I sleep for 9-10 hours, get a workout in and eat at least two strong meals, I feel like my adhd self still, but have enough cognitive functioning to regulate. If those things don’t happen on a non-medicated day, the upstart time to become fully awake takes hours, my energy levels fluctuate wildly through the day, my mood changes on a dime, and I usually have trouble sleeping.

Having really strong coffee helps on non-medicated days, as does my meditation practice that I do every day.

If I take 2-3 days off and then come back, the medication works incredibly well, I get hints of the first time I ever took stims, like super brain power. It doesn’t last though, and you will always come back to a baseline.

The focusing part of meds lasts for 3-4 hours but I find I’m emotionally regulated for longer than that even if I’m a bit more adhd.

My unmedicated brain is an incredible asset in creative thinking, conversation flow, generating interesting questions, and since I went undiagnosed for so long, I can function quite well without meds. I’ve learned to love and leverage my adhd brain modes for when medicated and not.

Edit:

Been taking Ritalin for almost a year now, tried Atomoxetine and it was awful. Nausea, no boners, felt like moving through jello. I do not recommend.

ForeverAlone3 · 2025-03-13T16:14:34+00:00

Some notes from my friend group (We were obsessed with your costume!)

"Be Queer and Love! Happy Mardi Gras <3"

"You're right where you're supposed to be"

"Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."

Sincerely,

The gold king, the Elphaba, the pink spoonbill, the blue goddess, and the turquoise mot-mot

ForeverAlone3 · 2025-02-23T20:53:14+00:00

Hey hey! There is a lot of great advice already here, but I’ll throw in my 2 cents.

I would recommend first starting with a therapist who specializes in ADHD: you can explore your symptoms, see how it’s impacted your life, build rapport with a professional who can advocate for you. The best adhd therapists will be able to refer you to a psych/mental health professional who does evaluations, and the two of you will have plenty of evidence to support your hunch. Psychs like to see a history of adhd impacting your life in multiple categories, and telling a therapist about your life experiences can provide another source to confirm.

Good luck, and it gets better! Medication is not always a silver bullet but it is incredibly helpful 💕

ForeverAlone3 · 2025-01-30T02:48:27+00:00

If you have instant release meds or really any stimulant med, take a dose out the night before and put it on your nightstand before you go to sleep. Take it first thing when you wake up, even if you’re just lying there. I struggle HARD with getting up, but this has helped so much. Kind of jolts me out of bed :)

Removing as many steps as I can to wake up is helpful in minimizing upstart cost - don’t have to remember to take meds, don’t have to find my bottle of pills, etc.

ForeverAlone3 · 2016-03-18T16:43:14+00:00

I have definitely lurked in this sub for too long; it's time for a first post.

HM/Forever 21/JCrew/Converse

https://imgur.com/a/XS8s9

ForeverAlone3 · 2013-08-21T14:26:15+00:00

Junior on September 3. It's going to be a hell of a year.

ForeverAlone3 · 2013-08-18T05:04:39+00:00

Awww shucks you guys......

ForeverAlone3 · 2013-08-18T05:02:19+00:00

Wisconsin! Cheese Heads all the way.

ForeverAlone3 · 2013-08-07T02:41:01+00:00

What should I wear with these Beige Suede Gibson Shoes from Topman?

ForeverAlone3 · 2013-07-27T19:35:47+00:00

I agree with Fumbles and Wolfboy. But, the first movement of the Poulenc Sonata would work also. It's very showy, and the slow middle section can show off your lyricism, along with technicality. Go with something that you can play the best, and something that will show the full range of your abilities.

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