Greg

Cheesecake Factory = heavenly

Tempted to go skydiving!

SUPER proud of you!! I remember worrying if you would ever quit, because you kept posting while still taking adderall, and now to hear you are nearly 1 year Clean is fantastic news!! High five searchingsoul!

Time flies! My last semester and then graduating in May!

Still running! 32 miles last week! 5 miles today.

i haven't posted here for awhile but I want everyone to know I'm doing good, I've posted at least 1700 times on this site and I would never have been able to get clean without this site. For all the veterans and all the newbies I thank you for being a part of this amazing site. Any new people here I encourage you to post and read and read and post because it's therapeutic and by reading you will learn so much about your addiction and understand how NOT alone you are. You will read stories upon stories and say "holy cow, that is me!!' And you will hear so many different perspectives on how they overcome. Every story is linked with a common theme and that is an undying desire to quit and the willingness to do whatever it takes and have all the persistence in the world to get clean because enough is enough already. I look back and I am upset about the years and years I wasted in an adderall haze, about the days I woke up and the only thing I looked forward to was my adderall pills, how I justified so many ways that I needed to take them whether it was to fend off lethargy or because I needed it to feel invincible in life because I couldn't do it on my own will and fortitude. Now being four years clean I am so aware of how ridiculous my thinking was and how much my thoughts were driven by a physical and psychological dependency on a drug I never needed in the first place. But what I want to say in this post, being someone four years out from addiction, is that I've learned a lot from my time being an addict and that has done so much to shape my future going forward. I learned what it was like to hit the lowest of lows, to be hospitalized, to lose my job, to frighten the people who cared most about me. I now know what rock bottom is and that has motivated me to work hard-ER in life to get as far away from rock bottom as I can. It's made me so much more grateful about being sober, more grateful than anyone who has has never dealt with addiction could ever know. I am grateful for my sobriety, and every success, and every step in the right direction. I am proud and I am grateful and I am grateful that I have overcome my adderall addiction and have an opportunity to continue to carve out a future for myself adderall free.

From one addict to another, I'm glad you are seeing the light. You can spend a fortune on adderall, as I've experienced and it will never be enough. What's great is that you are aware of that and that you are working to stop it. I think a buddy system will be great to keep each other accountable. I've been four year plus clean and I could never have done it with the wonderful people on this site. Stay active, post and keep reading and you will have the strength to overcome.

Hi, it's been a while since I posted. I just wanted to let you know that it will get better. You will be able to function normally again. I had to take some personal time off from work so I could recover and it was worth every minute. I can function like a normal person again. I don't need to sleep for hours upon end to make it through the day. You will recover, and you are doing great by taking that first step to get clean from adderall. The biggest rule of thumb when getting clean is to not take a single pill no matter how tempted you are. Keep it up and be strong and be really easy on yourself as you recover and know things will get better after the hard days of initial recovery.

Way to go Cassie!!!!!!!! Congratz on 3 years. Awesome!!

Following right behind Li'l Tex, I've hit my four year mark clean from adderall. Hooray!! I can't believe how fast it happened in spite of all the worries, fears and self doubt. Thanks for all being there my friends!!!!!!!!!

Wordpress rocks! (making a blog for school) My first blog topic - Will Apple Pay succeed?

Hey Chris, welcome to this site! Glad you found us. I can guarantee you that your post resonates so much with the people in this community. Being on so many addictive prescription drugs is an expensive habit - totally unsustainable as well. As addicts, we hurt a lot of people in our lives and we need to repair those relationships. We numbed ourselves with narcotics because we didn't like who we were. Your real personality cannot come through until you are off substances - and I pray you continue your quitting process and find the strength within you because it is a tough process with a lot of temptation to return to it. But when you make it through, you will repair those relationships, you will find yourself again and you will turn it all around.

I was a very hardcore adderall taker. A lot of the new people probably dont know but I snorted it, mixed it with vyvance, and concerta, and I hit rock bottom on it, when I lost my job and ended in rehab and drug therapy. Quitting the chain smoking was a HUGE plus. But reproducing dopamine in my brain in a normal way again was the BIG KAHUNA plus. And quitting adderall saved my life. Sometimes I dont want to just say quitting adderall. I quit a adderall AND vyvance AND concerta AND ritalin both the Extended release and short term release.

Its a great a book and i definitely recommend you work through it. I think a lot of people on this site are looking for non medicated ways to handle ADHD. Or as ZK calls it, a difference in cognitive ability.

Believe it or not I actually used to attend an adhd support group (I know) and we all bought that book and we used to work through a section of that book each week.

Li'l Tex are you hanging in there??

This thread has completely diverted into a different discussion --- it reminds me of an article I saw this month. I looked through it quickly and it talks a lot about that song ZK has linked to "All About that Bass" which is #1 on the billboard charts right now. http://www.macleans.ca/society/new-girl-go-girl/

I think you all know how i feel about ADHD. But I used to think I did have it and I have READ all the books on it including that series of Driven to Distraction, Answers to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction. I don't believe they all offer advice of taking pills as the only solution. They give many tips for staying organized. This one I would say would be the type of book you are looking for - its called ADD Friendly Ways to Organize your life. It doesn't focus on medication at all. I think people who are just disorganized can also benefit from it. It gives you simple ways to organize your life - tips that I still use today. Like if you always lose your keys, they give a great idea of leaving a box by your door for you to always drop your keys in as soon as you walk in the door so you always know where they are. I still use that tip today. http://www.amazon.com/ADD-Friendly-Ways-Organize-Your-Life-ebook/dp/B006G7H6TO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1411955273&sr=8-1&keywords=organize+for+adhd

18 for the week!

I take it For the energy it gives me for the workouts. I def don't take it for a buzz! It sort of has an appetite suppressing thing but .. Well I'm not sure if it does or not, I also will drink monster on top of everything...I think I get mild crashes from monster as well - if I have too much of it. Yeaaaah. I am sick of feeling like shit after each jack3d workout. I definitely am at the point where I think I should take it waaay less frequently if none at all.

ive been taking a workout supplement call jack3d. I've been taking it for awhile now so I know it's not addictive. But I notice that after I take it, it's powdered drink, that when I get back from running or workouts I feel really depressed for no reason. It has been a very familiar feeling. Today I finally realized what it reminded me of. The horrible adderall crash. I remember when the adderall wore off I would be so depressed and feel just awful and hopeless because the adderall was wearing off, I was so aware of when the crash was hitting me that my solunion to it was to sleep it off (or take more). Anyway, a powerful reminder of why I hate adderall with a passion, I can't believe I subjected myself to living like that all the time. The length of time I Felt awful when it wore off became more frequent and frequent the longer I was on it.

The wire is considered the best show on tv ever. I have heard amazing things about it and It is usually ranked 1 or 2 on all the top 10 lists. I would definitely give it a shot, I've tried to watch the wire and I find it so hard to get into it. I do plan to give it another shot, The new show 'How to get away with murder' was awesome last night. I'm completely hooked!

I know, I have to get on that too.

i think when we take adderall our brain forgets how to produce dopamine on its own. Dopamine is an important part of our cognitive process. If we become less able to produce dopamine naturally we are harming our brains. I think quitting adderall is saving your brain. Sure your dopamine receptors will be shot at first but ultimately you are saving your brain.

For me it was when I found myself wasting a lot of time figuring out when my next refill was, and constantly try to get my prescription filled early. That's when it began to turn on me.