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Other clues that leads to magnesium deficiency: 1. I ate a lot of cheese daily since being a kid. Calcium interferes with magnesium absorption. Not eating milk products correlated with feeling better for me but I attributed it to placebo since I couldn't figure out why. 2. Didn't eat any magnesium rich foods. 3. Smoking/caffeine/amps/stress quickly deplete it. 4. I had a few occurrences of restless legs/muscle twitches/muscle cramps/high blood pressure/tachycardia/insomnia/night waking with sugar cravings. All of these are associated with magnesium deficiency. 5. My anxiety/depression followed a stressful situation but otherwise was sudden and inexplicable by life situation alone. I knew something was physically wrong.

My depression/anxiety got really bad after being better for a while. After 7 month of no Amps I realized it wasn't withdrawal. In fact nothing made sense anymore. I had to start from scratch. I took amps to clear my head. It worked a little to stabilize me. I then decided to empty out all the assumptions and start research in another direction. I soon hit a gem: http://george-eby-research.com/html/depression-anxiety.html The guy cured his anxiety with 600-800 mg magnesium daily. Day three of doing the same my anxiety/depression was gone. I still feel a little off but that's probably real withdrawals now b/c I started/stopped amps again. Here is the kicker, Amps deplete magnesium. I think I know whats going on now. Two years ago I developed anxiety due to magnesium depletion which progressively got worse and that's when I started taking Amps. Amps cured me for a while and ultimately caused an even bigger depletion resulting in cognitive problems/numbness/suicidal depression. Magnesium stopped my emotional problems/sleep/heart problems almost the same day. Guys it is entirely possible I am not the only one here with that problem. Neurological problems are heavily correlated with low Magnesium (including ADHD). Now here is a subtlety that kept me from figuring it out sooner. I did take magnesium supplement a few times but I only took 100-200 mg a day. It was only after I took 600+ that I noticed problems resolving.

Thank you for sharing a warning with others.

I am doing really good. Here is the thing though. Don't just wait it out. Exercise/nutition/CBT/Meditation should be part of your daily routine. Waiting it out makes you feel hopeless while doing something puts you into taking charge of your life mode. I saw most benefits when I started actively battling remaining anxiety/depression through cbt/mindfulness DAILY.

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http://paidtoexist.com/the-best-way-to-solve-a-problem-give-up/

http://www.theicarusproject.net http://www.mindfreedom.org/ http://www.madinamerica.com/ There are A LOT of anti-psychiatry backlash from people like us and parents.

http://www.madinamerica.com/2012/02/why-anti-authoritarians-are-diagnosed-as-mentally-ill/ This article was one of the MAIN reasons I ended up quitting once and for all. It also led be to a political path of libertarian socialism (through Chomsky).

http://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/4405.html

What worked for me is taking a sorta leap of faith that all will work out in the end without adderall.

You know, maybe the problem is unhappiness and not concentration. Maybe we got on adderall to live a life that is not our own. And off adderall it becomes more obvious.

It's been 6 month for me. I still have intermittent PAWS. I thought it was over last good patch, but it always comes back and burns my soul in black flames. I finally admitted to myself, that I just really dislike this society and drugs just numb my dissatisfaction with status quo. But I know now, and decided to be more politically active. I joined food-not-bombs and other solidarity egalitarian groups.

Welcome to the realization that long term amphetamine use isn't as safe as they claim it to be. There will come happy days.

Excellent insight xD (don't need no adderall for insights) Keep em coming. Also we can use the idea to think about productivity in terms of learned skill as opposed to innate problem to be fixed by adderall. A good book on that is Willpower Instinct.

I believe low-grade depression was why I started taking the drug anyways. I was particularly hopeless at that period of my life and the drug seemed like an answer. Of course the initial euphoria did cure all my problems, but after a few month I started developing sudden onsets of severe mood disturbances while ON the drug (not crash). At first I would have a few days when the drug would cause my to feel sad all day long (similar to mourning), and then it got worse and worse until it turned into a permanent depression. Of course I was told that I had a co-morbid problem but thankfully I was smart enough to realize I was just suffering from drug-induced brain damage and needed to stop ASAP.

I've been reading books like Anatomy of Epidemic and The Myth of the Chemical cure (both great). The Drug-Centric model was particularly paradigm shifting for me. Basically the idea is that psychiatric drugs are just psychoactive substances like any other drugs. They don't correct "imbalances" but simply change how you think, feel, behave in ways that you may find helps with whatever life-conditions or illnesses you may have (or not). We can't deduce that just because drug acts on neurotransmitter X, deficiency in X is the problem. For example taking a pain killer does not cure the cause of pain, it simply has side-effects that we want. Viewing psychiatric drugs as treating underlying problems as opposed to having wanted side-effects is called the Disease Centric Model. Obviously Big Pharma wants us to see it this way. This way of seeing it made everything make sense. We were sold the idea that we were treating diseases while instead we were misled into becoming drug addicts. I am sure heroin addicts also had beneficial side-effects at first... Then brain addopts, gets damaged and all hell breaks loose as it did with us.

I quit smoking ~2 packs of cigarettes and 40mg dex-amp cold turkey about 4 month ago. I guess I shouldn't be surprised since I quit BOTH drugs at the same time but I am still experiencing: Pressure sensations in my skull. Easily overwhelmed with odd emotion resembling hopelessness mixed with rage. Tingling sensations around my skull. Depression symptoms like indecision, psycho-motor retardation. Brain fog. Is it still withdrawal? It is MUCH better then It was 2 month ago but still... Kind of starting to get scared I won't get better.