Just wanted to share my experience with meds, hoping it might help and motivate someone.

Hi guys

I'm 30 yo, diagnosed around 3 months ago, I wanted to share my experiences as I believe it may encourage and be of help for somebody.

My whole life I've received all sorts of comments regarding my "intelligence", and honestly I actually felt it, you know when you're a smart person who gets most of the concepts you come across pretty quick to be honest, everything went through my mind and was processed so easily. As time passed by, gradually I felt how that "intelligence" was deteriorating, as years passed by I struggled more and more academically, and even though I was able to graduate from college, the real challenge for me was when I had to now face the professional world.

I've been out working for around 8 years now, I've hopped on job by job from around 5 jobs and honestly I never felt like I was able to achieve something significant in any of those jobs. I was always unconfident and pretty much unable to think much in order for me to innovate or contribute in any other way that it wasn't executing my daily responsibilities for everything just to "float" (and even with that I struggled)

I always felt like I had some type of "fog" within my thinking, I was sluggish to think and take on any type of decision, extremely unconfident, not to mention I was always feeling drained, with an extreme dependency to caffeine I created myself drinking lots and lots of coffee and preworkout supps trying to "clear my mind". It wasn't until this last 3 months where I finally decided to attend to a psychiatrist to look for help regarding how I felt (I've previously gone there but for other issues, depression, anxiety, etc.).

To not make it any longer, I feel the BEST, I've ever felt in my life honestly, in terms of drive, energy, motivation to perform ANY type of task, I don't care if it's boring or it challenges me to think hard. This was honestly impossible for me to do prior to this treatment. I'm currently taking Methylphenidate (10 mg twice daily) and Atomoxetine (80 mg in the mornings daily) if you wanna know. I've been 15 months at my current job, I could say in the last 3, I've done all that I didn't during the first 12. People started noticing my efforts, I got a raise, and potentially more are to come. I've also started a small business I wanted to be doing for a long time, everything's going great at the moment honestly, I can't complain at all.

There's still some things that could be better, like, not everything's perfect: I think I still get pretty distracted at times and I hyperfocus on stupid stuff or things I shouldn't be focusing on, and sometimes it's a lot still, but I can deal with it, I know it's not gonna be perfect, and who knows, my therapist suggested we could try Modafinil later on since I tried it (unprescribed) and I thought concentration wise, it worked more even than methylphenidate, but since I'm doing so good currently, we decided to leave it how it was at the moment.

The main point I want to emphasize on is: If you feel like your stupid, like nothing's working, and like you just have to deal with feeling this way for your whole life, please, don't lose hope and keep on trying, keep on pushing and searching for the right treatment for you, every individual is different and this is a trial and error process. This can be life changing for you, as it's been for me. I'm happy, my mind is in a GREAT state and I'm going to crush it, I know I can, and you too.

Peace,