Greg Posted May 24, 2013 Report Share Posted May 24, 2013 I just finished Inferno by Dan brown. Currently reading Merry Christmas, Alex Cross by James Patterson (I know it's not christmas but I got it a while ago and hadn't gotten around to reading it yet) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motivation_Follows_Action Posted May 25, 2013 Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 How do you have time to read for pleasure?! I'm reading "Multipliers" by Liz Wiseman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted May 25, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2013 How do you have time to read for pleasure?! I'm reading "Multipliers" by Liz Wiseman. Im on summer break!! And I have decided to fill my schedule with nothing to recuperate. (although subject to change if i decide to take summer classes. um.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeHereNow Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Pretty interesting reading experience I'd like to share: Re-reading a book I first read when I was cracked out on adderall. I knew it was a good book even then, but it's exponentially better than my adderall mind could possibly have understood. I almost feel like I'm reading a new book entirely. Probably partly because of the memory loss on adderall thing, but also partly because my heart, mind, and approach have all changed. No surprise, but I am amazed by all the things I missed back then. Last time, I must have just sped right through it and on to the next one. I see more, understand more, appreciate more, think more with my sober brain. I have more of an emotional connection to the book, which helps me to understand it even more fully. (It's a history book full of narratives, so the emotional connection is important to understanding this history. On adderall, I was too emotionally numb to actually feel anything I was reading.) The biggest reason I ever took adderall is because I thought I was basically illiterate without it. I also believed it helped me understand books on a deeper level. Turns out I was so wrong, and I'm only realizing this now that I'm re-reading this book. So, it DOES get better, MUCH better, if anyone considering quitting or first quitting is reading this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookWoman Posted August 23, 2013 Report Share Posted August 23, 2013 The only thing that got me through any of the first time I tried quitting cold turkey was Lit by Mary Karr. It's a memoir mostly about alcoholism but all the addiction stuff she goes through is the same. I woke up to that book every morning for a month and it kept reminding me how I was wasting my life on adderall. Life on the drug is such a limited existence, like walking around in a space suit, separate from everyone. Here's one beautiful quote I always go back to. She's referring to booze but its the same for Adderall: "[Drugs] ensure that life gets lived in miniature. In lieu of the large feelings -- sorrow, fury, joy -- I had their junior counterparts -- anxiety, irritation, excitement." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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