Posted by garnet71 on May 2, 2009, at 19:32:19
In reply to Re: drug for motivation!, posted by Zana on May 2, 2009, at 19:05:32
Zana-Maybe you started at too high of a dose? When I first took dextro, I cut it in half to .5 mg, well it was more like .4 because it was the smaller half. It was reallly stimulating but calming at the same time - (maybe that is the zombification effect?) strange. I didn't get any anxiety (except for once in my car) but that little .4 mg. would not let me sleep at all. But it did help me do spring cleaning for 18 hrs straight. It gave me motivation to do necessary stuff. After the first 3 days or so?, I went to the 10 mg as prescribed, and it's effects declined. After less than 2 weeks, just the other day, it didn't seem to affect me at all and I tried reading a math book (omg its 800 pages) and couldn't really do it. I'm not sure how much it would have helped me with the mental work since I began the trial during a 6 day break from school. Ritalin doesn't work very well-it only lasts about 2 hrs. and only for a week or so...and makes me real tired when it wears off..though that hour or 2 I could do more than w/o it...and Adderall gave me real bad bronchial spasms when it wore off. Still, I didn't feel withdraw effects from dextro at all when I didn't take it for a day. I don't understand why doctor's say it is addictive. Actually--any of them. I dont see how any of them are addictive. Maybe if they effective they are addictive? 8}
Main symptoms are anxiety and lack of motivation. that's about it. Can't stay on task-when I'm writing a paper, even after one sentence, I think - oh, I need to cut some tulips and put them in a vase; or - doing research online, i check this forum or get sidetracked when interesting stuff comes up from google and can't keep on task. And then the same thing, oh i need to get up and do this and that, should I take chicken out of the freezer? and the thoughts pop up right in the middle of nowhere...
Motivation-well I have tons of stuff to catch up on after being debilitated by SSRIs for so long-I can't get motivated to do all my important stuff. The short trials of ritalin and adderall gave me the kick i needed to get large school projects done just recently. But this semester was the absolute worst I've ever done as far as assignments. My GPA went down because I feel no motivation to do them anymore. Just this week though, I did sit down and create a really cool collage of pictures the other day- of colorful wooden doors of stucco houses in the mediterranean--I individually cut them out from some poster I bought a couple years ago on clearance..and frames from the dollar store-painted them w/several different colors for effect, attached the little picture hanging thingies, sanded them to make them look aged--I did that with complete focus!!!
Well I took a Ritalin a few minutes ago-i'm going to try to do this paper before it wears off. Then I have a Power Pnt. presentation to do. Still, I noticed these drugs help more w/motivation than actually staying on task. I think the key IS trying to do stuff that interests you...but only in an ideal world will that happen all the time, huh?
Still tell me about the Pristiq. Sorry I'm rambling a bit! Nice talking with you!
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