on all this speed and just barely feel normal.

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I used to be on adderall once upon a time.
I had troubles with them. They made me feel crazy and i had an eventual nervous breakdown....but I do need something to help with executive dysfunction and the ability to focus...otherwise I just go about randomly in circles and it takes me forever to get anything done.

I have not had health insurance for a very long while. I self-medicate with diet pills and caffeine.

It just seems like I have to take so much stuff before I feel anything.

Someone was nice enough to give me an adderall pill a while back...a much lower dosage than what I was once prescribed. I have divided it...and today I took the other half...and felt NOTHING....and I have all this housework to do. I took the adderall....plus a diet pill....plus coffee....plus some other stuff and I am just as spacey overwhelmed and unfocused as ever.

And then I am gonna run out of these diet pills really soon...even though I don't take them all the time...but I really really feel like I need something to help me focus...or not just hyperfocus on the stuff I am not supposed to be doing...like posting on WP.

Like I said. I don't have health insurance. I don't have money to go to the doctor....I would probably have to jump through flaming hoops all over again to get ADD meds if I HAD the money.

I am just frustrated. Disorganised...scatterbrained...overwhelmed...fatigued...and have a lot of stuff to do.

I feel for you. I also have a lot of housework to do for my parents, and poor focus. I wish i had some advice to offer.

sorry I'm not going to contribute much to this thread, but I have exactly the same problem. I actually paid a cleaner to clean my house last weekend even though I didn't really have anything to do

it was money well spent, she made the place shine within 2,5 hours (it would take me weeks to make it look like this, provided that it wouldn't get dirty in the meantime... so practically- I'd never be able to do this)

Adderall is just 4 different amphetamines in a pill form. Not what I'd recommend but I guess there's doctors who disagree with me and they went to school about that sort of stuff... But anyways, have you tried marijuana? I mean, if its not your thing I'm not gonna try to pressure you.. but it works for me on the same problems you discuss having. On a side note, I bought a pill of adderall from a friend once to see if it would help me focus and I guess you can say it did kinda sorta...that and it kept me up all night and made my grind my teeth. Although it was kinda cool grilling hamburgers while watching the sun rise..

It's probably worse executive dysfunction than what's found in ADHD, that's the executive dysfunction in ASDs, of course. Amphetamines probably don't work (if they did, it'd be a treatment option for ASDs without ADHD, but it's not).

What a horrible situation! I used to have your problem with executive dysfunction until I got on Abilify. Which has stimulant side effects. But you can't get on ANYTHING right now. I'd start a thread for med-sharing and ask the mods to stick it, but they would probably lock it and tell me not to encourage med-sharing. Even if we put a disclaimer on it saying thst these people neede their meds badlky and them not taking them would cause more trouble than not sharing the meds with them would... and telling people not to do it unless they got a prescription.


YOu could write to the drug companies.


Or, better still, do what I did. Go to the mentsl hospital, say you're suicidal, then say it's because of your ecxecutive dysfunction. They'll admit you sand start you on meds for depression and ADHD. (They even gave me antibiotics in the mental hospital when I needed them, so they'll give you meds for ADD.) Then when they release you, they'll send you with a referral to the MHMRA clinic to get your meds for free. I'm an illegal immigrant there and I did it, so you can do it too.

Not that what I have to say matters much, but the types of medications you're talking about generally have a high level of dependence and are quite harsh on both the body and mind with long term use.