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<p>*racetams, dear.</p>
<p>Effects vary, but the easiest way to test is to just go buy some. It’s pretty cheap, even if you get it precapped (rather than getting it in bulk and capping yourself as I do). It’s been proven to remove lipofuscin (nasty stuff) in brain cells and increase memory performance in college students after two weeks of use. Look up the studies, there are dozens.</p>
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<p>Thoughts often don’t easily let go with ADHD…It’s part of the problem. It’s more difficult for certain things to keep your attention, but other things are overly good at it. And although childhood symptoms have to exist, they don’t have to have been recognizable as ADHD symptoms. For instance, my ADHD didn’t become a problem, really, until around junior year of high school, and I wasn’t diagnosed until Winter break of my freshman year in college. Looking back, there were symptoms, but they weren’t particularly problematic at the time, and I was able to deal with them fine.</p>
<p>Some people try so hard not to try hard. Developing adequate time management skills is much more important than learning to rely on drugs in order to be efficient.</p>
<p>wth. of course I try hard. no reason not to take it a step further.</p>
<p>I’l be completely honest.</p>
<p>I was prescribed Ritalin as a child, until Middle School.</p>
<p>I still had 1/2 of a prescription (~10-15 tablets, I think) left when I was told to get off the medicine.</p>
<p>I used them to help me do well in school…in middle school.</p>
<p>I really wish I had saved them, they might have saved my ass this year. Of course, I couldn’t see that far into the future back then.</p>
<p>Not going to read this whole topic.</p>
<p>But stop using the “But you still have to study!” excuse. </p>
<p>Athletes who use steroids STILL have to workout a ridiculous amount of time. They are no different than Adderal / enhancement drug users.</p>
<p>If you’re ok with adderal use, then you better be ok with steroid use too.</p>
<p>steroid use is not like this because steroids are used the the field of sports, where there are things like sportsmanship and fair play, and rules to the game, so people don’t get unfair advantages over others. In the academic and professional world, there are much fewer “fair play” restrictions, no rules to how you can and cannot study, and nobody to throw you out of the game if you’re caught using enhancers.</p>
<p>adderall is for people who need it! ughh when it’s FDA approved for non-adhd/add people, then i’ll take it.</p>
<p>The world would be a better place if everyone were on Adderall.
People are too damn hyper as it is. Calm the hell down.</p>
<p>I think aderall use for serious academic research work is a very bad idea. I’m talking about fields such as pure mathematics, theoretical physics/cs, etc. In Academia your selling point is your brain. If you sell your brain at a $100 value, and then stop taking aderall and fall to $80 in value, you might not make the next round of selection, as people get upset that their investment didn’t return in value. So if you’re going into these fields, don’t get dependent on these drugs unless you are willing to make them effectively a daily habit for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>Long-term adderall use, especially when you don’t need it, can have significant negative effects on the body.</p>
<p>To be honest, this thread inspired me to try adderall. I saw it a few months ago and I was amazed at the responses people gave. I’m quite the follower, you see. I wanted to try it for an AP Literature essay to see if it was as amazing as people had suggested. I got a 40/40 on content in an analysis of Lucie Manette’s character in A Tale of Two Cities. The effect of the good content grade was negated by my grammar being flawed due to my mind racing. I’ll probably use it in college.</p>
<p>Native speakers wouldn’t suffer in grammar, just suffer from not-as-good proofreading. But I never proofread in exams.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I meant. I didn’t even bother proofreading or even taking a second thought on ANYTHING I wrote because I was so excited. Hmm, I sound like a drug addict.</p>