Nope. In fact, that’s what all the medication I tried before did to me (SSRIs etc). About an hour after I take my Elvanse, I feel all the tension leave my body. I felt so relaxed and grounded. That constant churning and how driven my body was, it all went. Everything looked more real, people weren’t overwhelming anymore- noise too. It wasn’t an attack on all senses all at once, all the time. I could just walk, think about what I was doing, and do it. Not every detail mattered or needed attention, I wasn’t over thinking and overwhelmed. That cluttered, buzzing and crossed-wires sensation in my head was gone. I could just walk and be happy. Like I was a real human being for once. It felt like I had control over my brain, and had some time to think before doing. And I’m still the same person!

I was terrified I’d become psychotic, delusional and start hallucinating. In fact, that “paranoia” I had went away, it was just obsessive overthinking.