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Thank you all for the support and suggestions. I decided to call her PAs office and let them know my concerns. They ended up cutting my mom off from Adderall until they see her in person. Unfortunately the PA told her that I was the one who called and now my mom refuses to speak with me. We went from talking at least once a day to now she avoids all of my calls. It really hurts but I still think I did the right thing. She’s nowhere near the mom that I once knew. I hope being off the Adderall helps her paranoia and she can start to function normal again.

My mom started adderall in the summer of 2021 for suspected ADHD, she thought it helped with her concentration and focus at work but the dose kept needing to be increased. When i visited her in December she thought her entire house was infested with bugs. She had become obsessed with this belief and was picking up crumbs and pieces of dirt on the floor, putting them in baggies and collecting them for "evidence". She normally loves decorating for Christmas but when I visited her she had no decorations up because this obsession was occupying all her time. I visited he again in April and found her even worse, she refused to cook in her house because she thought bugs were landing on her food, she was spraying her body and clothes down with bug spray, and she was putting all her clothes in plastic bins in order to keep the "bugs" out. I discovered that she was taking 60mg adderall throughout the day and was not having regular check ups with her psych provider. I explained my concerns to her but she became extremely defensive, mean, and refused to take my advice of cutting down on the adderall. Im attributing all her symptoms to the adderall as she has never had a history of psychosis in the past. Does anyone have a similar experience or advice?