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Every year in the United States, 48 million people get sick from eating food and of those, 3,000 will die from food poisoning.
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Also I wanted to thank you for sharing this and for helping me start to organize my own thoughts about my experience with adderall!
Adderallornothing, that is the BEST screen name I have ever heard! It conveys a message of absolute abstinence and obviously it has worked for you with 13 months of time off adderall. We look forward to hearing your story of how you used and quit adderall, and how you have stayed off it for over a year.
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Good. I really like the option of NOT taking, using, drinking, or smoking anything any day I don't feel like it.
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Carrot!
Watching the ravens blowout the 49ers in the Super Bowl!!' Woohoo..
Also...a tray full of homemade brownies
Red velvet cupcakes
what KIND of brownies, InRecovery?
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Sometimes I use my biggest meal of the day (even with real corrots) as an incentive carrot. To quote Pink Floyd "how can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
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do you still smoke?
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I accept that I have a hard time with embarking on high organization tasks...but I really wasn't geting shit done on addies...just appeared that way cuz I was always moving.
So true. I am still digging out of the adderall-induced clutter. Just one more thing that adderall quit working for me and started working against me. And the always moving thing - I could be "busy" for hours, then look back at the end of the day and find that I was just busy being busy while not getting a goddamn thing accomplished.
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MFA you beat me to it! My God, there is an entire day's worth of reading from this article. The article itself is NINE pages long and the related articles and stories could keep you busy all day long! I spent 10 minutes on it, and concluded that it read just like the articles and stories posted on this web site. Conslusion: adderall is over-prescribed, easy to get, and it ruins peoples lives. Duh....
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I deleted it.
You GO, Girl! haha lollol
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Well, I took both of the free tests from MFA's links. The shorter test - link #3 confirmed my ISTJ preference, but the longer test - link #2 - showed me as an INTJ. I am sticking with ISTJ.
Here is what I find very interesting: Not one extrovert, yet, from those who have posted on this thread. Could that be because the E's can talk their problems through with real people or therapists and the I's do better with a virtual setting and communicate better in writing?
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Can you post a link to the test, MFA? I haven't done it for a long long time.
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Very good for you, Tyler. You just made two big steps that will really help you along. Day two is usually the hardest day of adderall physical withdrawl. You gotta muster all the willpower you have not to wanna take a pill. Sleep. Eat. Drink water. Kill those adderall-using thoughts before they take hold. YOU CAN DO THIS!
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also, this was posted on this site:
http://quittingadder...ff-of-adderall/
so i thought id be ok to use that as my guidebook..not a good idea?
I just read that article and many of the comments. I don't think I saw even ONE comment from somebody who successfully weaned off adderall. Just a lot of wanna weens because they didn't want to quit cold turkey. If you want to try weaning, go ahead and try it, but what will be your self-imposed penalty if you cannot step down, or if you step back up? Do you have the willpower to enforce your own rules? If you just quit completely and suddenly, the recovery and healing process can begin a lot sooner, like NOW.
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well, i didn't necessary want to quit cold turkey because I read that it's really bad for you. I went from taking 10 pills yesterday, to 2 today. so i know it's not a perfect situation yet, but this is the first time in my 3 years of taking adderall that i even admitted there was a problem, so i am trying.
The reason "they" say it is bad for you is because you will wilt when you don't take it. But you will also wilt when you go from ten to two pills in a day, and this "stepping down" bullshit just prolongs your pain and agony. Remember, all the medical literature is created for people taking adderall at at the "prescribed dosages". You have a serious addiction to this drug and the addiction simply won't let you continue taking one or two pills a day. When somebody gets checked into a mental hospital with amphetamine-induced psychosis, do you think they continue giving the patient adderall? I wish you the best of luck with your attempts to quit.
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Hi, I'm new here and have found this site so so helpful thus far. I am an INFP (as far as I know) and have been searching for Mike's original article on the topic to no avail. Can someone provide a link please? Thanks!
Sorry, I was wrong. There is a poll entitled "What is your personality type" and a very good article entitled "7 personal traits adderall users have in common". Both of these are located in the articles archive. Just click on the "articles" button at the very top of this page to browse them.
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How can you be "making a step in the right direction" if you have already started your day by taking an adderall? It will just be another red-dot day for you, no matter how hard you try not to take it, because it is an addiction out of control. If you "don't want to quit cold turkey" (your words) then you don't want to quit at this point in your life. Get off the fence, buck up and just fucking quit. Are you scared?
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A therapist once told me to keep my expectations really low regarding a new date. I was a lot less stressed in doing so.
So, instead of pondering how you could favorably impress this guy, look at it as another post-adderall adventure, like flying. Look at this date as simply an opportunity to meet somebody new and gain new perspectives from someone with totally different life experiences that your own. Look at it as a way to be entertained for just this one evening. It is chance to learn, interact and converse with somebody new. He doesnt ever need to know about your past interest in drugs or your adderall recovery, only the things that make you click now. And you don't have to worry about him being a creep if your parents set up the date in the first place, right?
How was your flight? worst thing I could imagine would be sitting next to a fatso who takes up 1.5 seats or having a screaming baby on the plane. I have invented baby muzzles for the screamers, just waiting on the patent
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So your mother, laundry and buying food get blown off again???
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You sound like you're kind of on the fence about whether you really want to quit, to be honest. Like you're in a holding pattern until you find out if you got in to the program you've applied for, and until you can get your next prescription filled. Is that the case? Just trying to find out what's in your head really... are you on your way to quitting for good or are you just kind of "hoping" that you'll be able to make it through the next few months, not believing that your will to quit will "stick". If it's the latter, then unfortunately you haven't really committed to quitting because you don't believe in yourself enough that either you think you can, or you want it bad enough.
If you are hanging out waiting for 4 months then that's not a great use of your time....
The above quote is worth repeating, Ham. You would be really really cruel to yourself to resume the adderall after being off it for four months. Just because it will be an option and you can? My advise is to make it even less of an option if you have weak resistance. Sever those ties with your prescribing doctor(s) NOW before having the option to refill.
I quit smoking cigs 1.5 years ago. I still get tempted every time I go into a convenience store and see all those delicious flavors calling out to me from their disply racks. I also know that even one fucking puff will put me right back to a pack a day cig habbit within days, and that the will to quit again might not come around for another 5 or 10 years. I can't afford to do that for any reason, so I ignore the temptation.
An amphetamine addiction is simply unsustainable for a lifetime, unless you want to take the amphetamine addiction to your grave. It really is that simple.
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I took it about 25 years ago and back then I was an ISTJ. Personality type does change with time and I am curious what I would be now. Have you read the book Type Talk? It was written by some of those who first applied this test. Also, there is a really good article written by Mike in the articles section of this web site that discuses these different personality type traits in relation to adderall addiction.
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Freespirit, you got this. The list of really wierd health problems from adderall abuse is a long one. Most of the problems are not listed as "official" side effects because they only consider "prescribed" dosages when making that list. My best friend got MRSA in a sensitive and critical area of his body. Took the antibiotics and cured it; continued taking adderall and it came back a second time. Still didn't quit adderall, until he went into psychosis and that scared him straight. Sometimes it takes a really bad health event to prompt change. I believe that you believe adderall caused your Lupus and I agree 100%. Fuck, I don't even know what Lupus is but it can't be good. I wish you the best of luck and success with quitting.
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Lea, thanks for your honesty about your multiple personalities or usernames. I know of at least two other members who have done something similar.
Most of us who make regular contributions to this site really do care about the people we are responding to. We put a lot of thought and time into individualized responses and might tend fo feel ignored or abandoned when the person whom we are repeatedly posting with suddenly and permantly just vanishes from the website. A natural response would be to assume a full blown relapse of that person. I don't even want to consider accidents or death. Personally, I don't assume anything, and each post or response I draft is done so without any kind of assumption or expectation. And I never forget we are dealing with addiction and drug addicts who know how to lie really, really well. Although, I never have figured out why anybody would lie about anything on an anonymous self help addiction recovery website. Facebook is for liars and false fronts, kinda like somebody's pristine and tidy flowerbeds and and always-mown front lawn. This place is like the unpainted woodshed in an overgrown backyard.
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I actually realized I LIKED the REAL me. To everyone who couldn't and can't handle that, I really would like to tell them to go fuck themselves!!!
Don't worry, I still realized I have a LONG road ahead of me and that I will spend the my life "in recovery,", but for now, I am enjoying life, day by day.
Couple things i wanna respond to, Cat:
I really like your attitude and self-acceptance.
It is good that you realize there is a LONG road ahead to the complete recovery of the REAL you. Everybody's recovery is different, and I don't believe that you will spend your life in recovery. At some point in the next year or so, you will begin to feel mostly recovered on most days. You have to acknowledge your addiction(s) and always be mindful they will always tempt you, and never give in to the temptations. But I can attest that I felt mostly recovered on most days after a year of abstinence from adderall. And it just keeps getting better and better with more time away from that awful drug. I think AA's once an alcoholic always an alcoholic dogma is perfectly appropriate - for alcohol addiction. But I am not going to self-label me as an adderall addict for all time; therefore I will simply acknowledge my addiction by never touching the drug. And put the adderall addiction phase of my life behind me.
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People have many different reasons and motivations for posting here. For example, I was almost three months into my quit before i had the desire and motivation ot begin posting while other people beging posting even before they take their last pill. And I was aware of this site for about nine months before I quit. i imagine there are lots of people who never join or post here but follow the postings on a regular basis, and I am sure it has helped a lot of people quit. There are others, who get the help they need here to quit, from only a few postings, successfully quit, and then move on with their lives and we never hear from them again. There are some who come back and post a positive update or a relapse update after many months or years of dormancy. There are some, like InRecovery or LilTex, who take a three month or year long hiatus from here and then come back. Most simply fade away into the history of past posts.
What I am trying to say is that you cannot assume anything just because somebody has quit posting. You will never be able to assemble any kind of a success ratio based on who continues to post or even log on to this site, simply because of its anonymous nature.
I found it to be highly encouraging reading success stories, especially before I quit, because it showed me that people can and do beat this awful addiction and return to living normal, healthy and productive lives. That is why I am still posting after 1.5 years.
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redline energy shots -- do NOT drink the whole thing @ once
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If I get sleepy when driving, I will take a deep breath and hold it in until I get dizzy. then repeat....while listening to loud rock-n-roll with cool air blasting in my face.