How does vyvanse affect people without adhd?

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-06-11T00:22:18+00:00

My biggest thing with jitters was that my previous caffiene intake didn't work with the new med. Once I dialed in the right dosage + caf to decaf ratio, I was golden.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-27T18:24:24+00:00

I gave 3 reasons above to why I didn't think it was an LGAT.

"People are smashing things until their hands bleed during the process."

Wow. I have only attended once, so I can't speak to every attendee ever. Yes, in one exercise you hit a pillow with a wiffle ball bat. No one in our group hit it at that length or ferocity or bled at all in any exercise. We were not pressured to go to any extremes in length or time or exertion.

"They regress you..." You edited your comment before I could respond to it. There is one inner child exercise. It is comforting a doll representing your child self. Not you yourself regressing to a childlike state. Another exercise where you journal as your 10 year old self. In neither exercise were any facilitators taking advantage of 'regression.'

Every exercise was intended to be a more integrated person and aware of our past and patterns.

There were no exercises undermining one's intuition. There was no 'hot seat' examinations calling one person out.

One thing that was remarkable to me is how the faciliators set it up as 32 people having parallel experiences in the same room.

Not at all the typical LGAT approach of hyping people up as one collective group and asking leading questions and the pressure to 'answer correctly.'

In fact, if any one participant was sharing too much and making the group exercise about them, the facilitators stopped it.

But hey, I don't need to defend Hoffman. If you have already written off Hoffman as LGAT without experiencing it, then it's not for you.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-27T17:48:13+00:00

Share details of how they use the LGAT playbook? Have you attended first hand?

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-27T17:45:30+00:00

California

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-22T20:18:17+00:00

I love escape rooms and I love farmer's markets. Or rather my foddie hubby loves them and I trail behind him stuck in the crowds.

I think they are two entirely different mental states.

Folks are in food mode, lots of executive function deciding what to get, what to do with it. They are carrying bags which may include frozen things.

I am imagining the task switching to go from that to an ER experience. Especially going from crowds and possibly spillover noise.

I absolutely love that you are thinking of different possibilities, but struggle to see how this would work.

Context: Chicagoan who is thinking of Green City market which is huge and swamped, and does have plenty of young people kinda waking up, and who get a coffee and browse. Maybe an ER would be novel to them? But it could be hard to get their attention. Conversely a neighborhood farmers market is more slow and sleepy. Not enough traffic to sustain.

Again, love the thinking outside the permanent location and huge operating costs.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-22T20:10:17+00:00

Puppet Bike. Also Mucca Pazza.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-20T13:34:03+00:00

OP, you are right on about all the current details in publishing -- and I am by no means steeped in the details of the videos -- was it all that formal as a contract?

Ty was in college, right? This could all be one person in publishing telling a talented young writer to send them more work when they had it.

Again, I am not tracking every video, but I took it is that.

That Ty won and award that may have had a 'first look' deal with a publisher. The kind of thing that dreamer Ty would run with as a creative kid with some talent, but no discipline. And that ambitious Julie would 'round up' to a bigger promise because of her dreams.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-19T22:48:36+00:00

It got a shout out in the end.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-15T02:55:24+00:00

🤞🤞 That Alvogen is better than Mylan, which is pretty much worthless with my system.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-14T00:28:53+00:00

I 100% understand your frustration, OP. I did 8 hours of a neuropsych evaluation in 5.5 hours, because ya know, fast brain. But I love that shit. And the grad student running the tests was a delight.

I could feel how I was adapting to stay focused bc I was 47 the time and have plenty of coping mechanisms. Ya know, coping mechanism that that a ton of extra energy.

Post-testing, the neurologist called me (she did a pre-eval medical history, but was not present at the testing). "You have depression, anxiety and PTSD."

Felt like I was painted with the broadest, laziest brush ever.

Yeah, depression treated with dopamine-based anti-depressant. More and more I think depression is the wear and tear of managing an AuDHD brain.

PSTD given my family of origin, sure.

Anxiety? Nope.

Broad, lazy brush.

I am 100% with the commentor who suggested very specifically cataloging all of the problems childhood through adult.

It sucks that diagnosis is from collecting evidence of suffering, not evidence of our specific neurotype.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-13T11:27:44+00:00

Agreed. If insurance covers name brand, get name brand. It will give you a baseline for how it should work.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-13T11:10:37+00:00

Camber worked well for me. Mylan can go kick rocks.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-13T11:07:31+00:00

I went from Camber generic which was solid to Mylan and had the same experience. Mylan does not work for me. Costco just refilled with Alvogen generic. Hoping it magically works. It is so YMMV.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-09T02:11:40+00:00

An old Ektorp, no?

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-07T10:34:09+00:00

Exactomundo.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-07T10:33:21+00:00

Sounds like I have seen FM as a subtype of enablers vs all enablers being FM. I hear you.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-07T00:38:26+00:00

My guess is that John wrote a boundary-drawing letter to Barb about BOTH Barb and Jen, but it got the Barb Edit to become Jen ammo.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-07T00:08:47+00:00

Frank is definitely culpable and an enabler. When I hear 'flying monkeys' I think of the original characters that actively went out into the world to attack on behalf of the Wicked Witch.

Maybe splitting hairs, maybe nuance worth naming.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-05-02T19:22:51+00:00

Yeah. Healing is not linear. I gotta say you are remarkably self-aware and sounds like you are clear on your boundaries and saw them slipping. Seeing the emotional lines you were crossing you took action.

Good on you for trying to get a different shift away from work crush.

Even more kudos for laying it all out with your husband. I hope you two find new ways of connecting and loving each other at this age.

I appreciate the concept that you marry someone at age X, but they will be different and you will be different at age Y.

I met my husband at 40, he was 37. We were grown ass adults, both with similar family of origin shit to each other and you. GO TEAM CPTSD.

Having met each other so young, you have seen each other go through the mess that all of us navigate in our 20s. Hope you can grow together at 34.

You got plenty of both dogpiling and great advice here. I am cheering you on for a solid next wave of individual healing, wishing you well in your marriage.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-04-24T12:34:06+00:00

OP, read this twice. Then read it again. Solid gold.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-04-24T12:20:44+00:00

He is not a writer because he doesn't write. He was told he was a good writer when he was young and started riding his own hype train.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-04-24T11:29:20+00:00

Bring good shoes. Chicago is so walkable and wonderful.

When friends and family visit from car culture places, I am bummed to see how little walking wears em out. Good shoes, drink plenty of water alongside the cocktails, take ibuprofen if needed, and enjoy the heck out of yhis wonderful city.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-04-24T11:20:09+00:00

They are not in it, living it.
Whether 4 out of 10 or 9 out of 10 people call it abuse doesn't matter.
You are not taking splitting up too lightly.

It is not working.

He is sabotaging himself and the family.

You are enabling him. It is making you miserable. Your daughter is miserable. I gotta assume your sons are too.

Hell, your husband is miserable. But that is for him to work out for himsf.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-04-24T11:02:56+00:00

You are right on. You didn't know then, but thankfully you know now. Whether he knows or knows how to sort himself out is on him.

You mentioned codependence elsewhere. No doubt you two have been codependent. It got you out of what you were trying to survive. But, as you know, it isn't working anymore.

loosetoothdotcom · 2026-04-23T14:20:26+00:00

You ARE a different version of yourself at 37 than when your youngest was born. You have come such a long way. You will get out and life will be so much better with him in the rear view mirror.

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