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ADHD & Adderall apologists: Did it improve your grades, work, life?

For starters, check out the graphs at the top of this: ht...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
different people react to drugs differently, man.
Laughsome Gay Liquid Oxygen
  06/20/15
Oh, what a coherent "science"! I forgot that A...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
that's not what i'm saying lieutenant dipshit. amphetamines ...
Laughsome Gay Liquid Oxygen
  06/20/15
Describe the "scatterbrain" effect
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
...
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  06/22/15
addy only does one thing for me: make me weirdly nice, like ...
fear-inspiring insanely creepy french chef
  06/20/15
That is, it "paradoxically" increases your impulsi...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
(bro who has written 5,000 words today on how ADHD is bullsh...
Kink-friendly splenetic stag film useless brakes
  06/20/15
Copied & pasted from a back and forth, spontaneous FB co...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
god you sound like a real faggot
Kink-friendly splenetic stag film useless brakes
  06/20/15
(chill bro having 20 paragraph adderall discussions on FB)
Kink-friendly splenetic stag film useless brakes
  06/20/15
...
Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend
  06/23/15
a certain "chill" kind of ADHD screed
Chartreuse Crawly Native
  06/20/15
I took adderall everyday throughout 1L year. It undoubtedly ...
garnet bawdyhouse
  06/20/15
The 6hrs reading Wikipedia instead of working: how did you a...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
When I took it every day I was able to learn to Use it very ...
garnet bawdyhouse
  06/20/15
Re acing LS exams: So you didnt get tunnel vision thinking a...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
1. No that didn't happen at all. There is a thing called do...
garnet bawdyhouse
  06/21/15
A doc RXed it to me as well but I invariably took LESS than ...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/21/15
Maybe you have a weak constitution. Seriously just sack the ...
olive arousing wagecucks station
  06/21/15
I'm in the "ADHD is a fraud" camp. See my other th...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/21/15
Yes, and I have no problem public ally marginalizing that me...
olive arousing wagecucks station
  06/24/15
yes yes
swashbuckling hospital
  06/20/15
Where's the 3rd yes?
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/20/15
Yes
Zippy judgmental senate
  06/20/15
I used ritalin. I didn't really find it effective. It did im...
odious gas station lettuce
  06/21/15
Did it hurt you on timed exams requiring complex thinking (e...
multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band
  06/22/15
ever try switching to Adderall?
Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend
  07/04/15
Yes it did
Diverse laser beams
  06/22/15
...
Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend
  06/24/15
yes
Chartreuse Crawly Native
  06/22/15
Uniformly? No cognitive drawbacks?
Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend
  07/01/15
It certainly makes my job easier
Umber coffee pot
  07/04/15
yes
poppy zombie-like cuckoldry
  01/24/16
Yes, it was amazing
contagious angry boltzmann background story
  01/24/16
short term it was fucking amazing long term i know i'm fukt...
alcoholic friendly grandma mexican
  01/24/16
For posterity: OP is DVP. I remember this thread when it fir...
Flirting Locale International Law Enforcement Agency
  06/23/17
whoa!
Demanding market
  06/23/17
ADD/ADHD is still effectively not real
Curious French Therapy
  06/23/17
Duh, six pack abs, HYS, drive to get out of law, can drink A...
Overrated turquoise boistinker
  06/23/17


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Date: June 20th, 2015 2:32 AM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

For starters, check out the graphs at the top of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes–Dodson_law

Even in the web of fraud&lies (err, "science") that is ADHD, we have the IRON LAW of diminishing returns to arousal, then negative returns.

Whether you took it during finals only, before a big brief, or daily, can you honestly say they turned you from a B performer to an A student?

Because the actual science shows that the typical user is a rabid procrastinator who gets Bs but would've otherwise gotten Cs. For them, it's the difference between churning out 30pgs of mumble jumble vs turning in nothing.

But on time-restricted, cognitively demanding tasks (eg LSAT, 3hr law school exams), it pushes your natural game day adrenaline and anxiety overboard right into the negative returns phase, where you write the FUCK out of your current train of thought, which you think brilliant in the moment but is actually incoherent. Then you run out of time to answer the last 3rd of the test/task, much less edit your initial spew of nonsense.

If it did unequivocally improve your performance in one area of your life, you'd still be on it. Might as well devote a lifetime to it.

So, how do you discontinue it without turning into a listless puddle who never leaves his basement or experiences meaningful human contact?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163238)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 2:37 AM
Author: Laughsome Gay Liquid Oxygen

different people react to drugs differently, man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163259)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 2:41 AM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

Oh, what a coherent "science"!

I forgot that Adderall can have the "paradoxical" (ie, totally inexplicable) effect of "calming" actual ADHD-havers!

It magically "treats" ADHD concurrently with its "comorbid" disorders, anxiety and depression!

Shouldn't benzos & SSRIs be out of business?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163272)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 3:07 AM
Author: Laughsome Gay Liquid Oxygen

that's not what i'm saying lieutenant dipshit. amphetamines are powerful drugs and it's unpredictable as to how any individual will react (even if you can predict trends for a population). some people may get the perk of added focus while feeling less of the "scatterbrain" side effect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163303)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 11:15 AM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

Describe the "scatterbrain" effect

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28164128)



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Date: June 22nd, 2015 7:30 PM
Author: Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28179842)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 2:38 AM
Author: fear-inspiring insanely creepy french chef

addy only does one thing for me: make me weirdly nice, like ill tell my wife i love her every 20 minutes or email a random coworker about how i enjoy working with them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163260)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 2:43 AM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

That is, it "paradoxically" increases your impulsivity, when it's supposed to "treat" it.

So why take it, man?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163274)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 3:33 AM
Author: Kink-friendly splenetic stag film useless brakes

(bro who has written 5,000 words today on how ADHD is bullshit)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163331)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 4:36 AM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

Copied & pasted from a back and forth, spontaneous FB convo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163535)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 4:38 AM
Author: Kink-friendly splenetic stag film useless brakes

god you sound like a real faggot

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163545)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 11:17 AM
Author: Kink-friendly splenetic stag film useless brakes

(chill bro having 20 paragraph adderall discussions on FB)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28164135)



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Date: June 23rd, 2015 12:22 PM
Author: Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28184379)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 4:37 AM
Author: Chartreuse Crawly Native

a certain "chill" kind of ADHD screed

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28163541)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 11:57 AM
Author: garnet bawdyhouse

I took adderall everyday throughout 1L year. It undoubtedly improved my concentration and performance. I was in the top 5% of my class 1L year and I wrote onto law review. However there were some definite side effects: I was noticeably meaner to my girlfriend (would scream at her when she interrupted my studying) and I was easily distracted by non-schoolwork related things (I could go off on a tangent and spend 6 hours reading about history on Wikipedia when I was supposed to be working). I was able to cut out the distractions mainly by going to a library without wifi internet when I was studying. I stopped taking it after 1L year BC I figured my law school grades didn't really matter at that point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28164392)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 12:07 PM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

The 6hrs reading Wikipedia instead of working: how did you avoid duplicating that on eg a 3hr exam where you spend 2hrs writing "XO scholarship" instead of actually answering the question? Then you only have 1hr left to answer the actual question?

Or, on the L Rev competition: How did you avoid getting suckered in reading forever about scholarship and not actually writing anything?

So you only took it your 1L year, and not before or since? How'd you quit so easily after 1yr of daily use? Did you just stop going to the doc for refills?

After you quit, did you turn into a useless, lazy sack of shit for your 1L summer job & 2L Fall?

And why havent you gotten back on in your biglaw job and top the associates' billing chart?

So you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28164428)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 1:16 PM
Author: garnet bawdyhouse

When I took it every day I was able to learn to Use it very effectively I had no problem acing law school exams with it. I also didn't find it addictive at all, to answer your other question. When you first take adderall there is a euphoric effect, but that goes away after the first few times. I didn't use caffeine at all while on it and when I stopped taking it I just switched back to caffeine. I didn't have any urges to take the addy again or anything. Actually, it was kinda of nice to be off it: I felt more creative, impulsive, spontaneous, etc. I actually think I am better at my biglaw job at critical thinking and writing without addy than I would be on it. Now doc review is another story (addy would help great with that), but I've never found it necessary to use addy at work. It's not the same sort of pressure cooker of competition that law school was and I really haven't had to do that much grunt work at the firm over the last few years. One thing to note is that decongestants like Claritin D have a very similar effect to adderal. I did take that a few days during 24 hour work sessions when we were in trial (to stay awake).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28164782)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 6:51 PM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

Re acing LS exams: So you didnt get tunnel vision thinking and write completely irrelevant paragraphs, only realizing that you're running out of time when it's too late?

And what euphoria are you talking about? You mean the optimistic, "I can do this," on top of the world feeling?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28166836)



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Date: June 21st, 2015 2:10 AM
Author: garnet bawdyhouse

1. No that didn't happen at all. There is a thing called dosage. Your doctor will prescribe you the right dose for your body weights so things like that don't happen. It's an RX medication, not some street drug sold to you by Darnell.

2. Yes. It only happens the first time you take it though, or if you take it after having not taken it for a long time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28169435)



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Date: June 21st, 2015 10:00 PM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

A doc RXed it to me as well but I invariably took LESS than prescribed on most days...except before exams, when I more or less scaled up to my "prescribed" dose.

The tunnel vision/scatterbrain effect happens at RX doses too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28173983)



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Date: June 21st, 2015 10:27 PM
Author: olive arousing wagecucks station

Maybe you have a weak constitution. Seriously just sack the fuck up. Unbelievable bitching.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28174217)



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Date: June 21st, 2015 11:29 PM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

I'm in the "ADHD is a fraud" camp. See my other thread.

But do you realize that if you were to tell a millenial convinced that he has ADHD that he just has a weak constitution and needs to suck it up, you'd be slammed with "marginalization of a mental illness"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28174621)



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Date: June 24th, 2015 11:27 PM
Author: olive arousing wagecucks station

Yes, and I have no problem public ally marginalizing that mental "illness"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28195122)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 12:00 PM
Author: swashbuckling hospital

yes yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28164397)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 10:30 PM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

Where's the 3rd yes?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28167990)



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Date: June 20th, 2015 7:48 PM
Author: Zippy judgmental senate

Yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28167100)



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Date: June 21st, 2015 2:17 AM
Author: odious gas station lettuce

I used ritalin. I didn't really find it effective. It did improve my concentration, but the thing is, I just concentrated harder on videogames and XO and shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28169457)



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Date: June 22nd, 2015 3:00 PM
Author: multi-colored snowy philosopher-king elastic band

Did it hurt you on timed exams requiring complex thinking (eg LS exams)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28177955)



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Date: July 4th, 2015 5:03 PM
Author: Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend

ever try switching to Adderall?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28257868)



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Date: June 22nd, 2015 12:20 AM
Author: Diverse laser beams

Yes it did

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28174916)



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Date: June 24th, 2015 7:35 PM
Author: Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28193672)



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Date: June 22nd, 2015 7:30 PM
Author: Chartreuse Crawly Native

yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28179846)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 8:35 PM
Author: Bisexual Toaster Organic Girlfriend

Uniformly? No cognitive drawbacks?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28241166)



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Date: July 4th, 2015 5:12 PM
Author: Umber coffee pot

It certainly makes my job easier

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#28257903)



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Date: January 24th, 2016 1:10 PM
Author: poppy zombie-like cuckoldry

yes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#29668099)



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Date: January 24th, 2016 1:19 PM
Author: contagious angry boltzmann background story

Yes, it was amazing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#29668162)



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Date: January 24th, 2016 1:26 PM
Author: alcoholic friendly grandma mexican

short term it was fucking amazing

long term i know i'm fukt 4 lyfe

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#29668205)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 1:45 AM
Author: Flirting Locale International Law Enforcement Agency

For posterity: OP is DVP. I remember this thread when it first appeared. It was around the time he was going crazy and threatening to sue the board.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#33622923)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 7:23 AM
Author: Demanding market

whoa!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#33623433)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 1:49 PM
Author: Curious French Therapy

ADD/ADHD is still effectively not real

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#33625561)



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Date: June 23rd, 2017 1:47 PM
Author: Overrated turquoise boistinker

Duh, six pack abs, HYS, drive to get out of law, can drink ANYONE under the table

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2914302&forum_id=2#33625539)