aka ... problems you worry about when you are financially stable in America and don't have to worry about more substantial issues....

as anyone who has more experience dealing with psychoactive meds than I do probably already know

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......DAMN.

...does 18 mg make a difference.

I stopped taking 36mg of Concerta, and went back to 18 3 days ago

and I feel like a completely, totally different person

wouldn't your doctors know...?

I am at once relieved and kind of.... uncomfortable with what a difference that makes.

I try to keep comparing it to vision? Because I can forget how poor my vision is without these little circles I place on my eyes...

but because this touches on points of personality and CHARACTER, and how I act and FEEL-- it's weird to feel so beholden to a drug.

At the same time, I get worried that talking too much about that feeling would put off family/friends who could BENEFIT from it

from taking it, because they have the same fears.

because it is WORTH the difference, if there are certain things you want to achieve; it REALLy is.

any discussion about medicating ADHD can only be in various shades-- if you hear an argument that is either just "pro" or just "con"

.... it is a bad argument 8|

shadedwhite: plurk don't hide replies D8 .... and he was the one who increased my dose

that's a normal thing to do, since I was on the lowest dose they make

I feel you on these things. I've honestly always felt strange about it -- if I think about it too much, it becomes disturbing.

I just have to.. compare it to other things.

And sometimes just not take it, and list the things I do and CAN do without it that are valuable.