Greg

Good luck on your exams!!

That is awesome. Its great too that you are heading into your finals with As and basically needing to maintain what you have. You have a great chance at getting that 4.0 (and adderall free!!) I went into my finals needing to fight to bring my grades up. Dont know if it worked. Anyway JustinW GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!

Thanks for all your encouragement guys. Im DONE with FINALS! I have to move out of my room tomorrow, so i've been up all night packing. Ive studied intensely and slept only a few hours these past couple days -- but Ive done it all adderall free. I cant wait to fly home Saturday and drown myself in movie theater popcorn like you said ZeroKewl. I am very disappointed in many of my close friends here. They have all being doing adderall through finals (and even during non finals periods, who knows how much they do it) even after I told them with all my horror stories. One of them was hospitalized from an adderall induced panic attack on monday. I've warned her so much about this but she just doesnt listen. There's not much I can do but tell her what happened to me. I have one friend who takes adderall because he really thinks he has ADD but I genuinely believe adderall is not a real thing, and that anyone can have attention problems organization problems and ADD is just a way to explain chronic "disorganization" but it is marketed by the pharmaceuticals as way to sell adderall, concerta, ritalin and vyvance.

I cannot wait to be over with this. I took a one hour nap and resumed cramming. Exams from 12-3p and 6-9pm tomorrow. I dont feel good about either them but it is what it is. I am caught up on Game of Thrones except for last week. But I plan to see lots of movies like Captain America and Spiderman 2 etc...i cant wait for this to be over and done with.

Ii think know what you are talking about. I do that to. I will lay in bed and fantasize about being it, i don't think it's big deal as long as you don't do it, I know deep down I will never touch that poison again.

Hang in there. Adderall elevated your mood even though it was destroying u. Try not to overanalyze your life right now because everything is going to seem horrible in this state of mood. You're in withdrawal! Just the opposite of how everything felt great when u were in a positive mood, the most important thing is that u give yourself the time you need to heal and gain as much distance away from it as you can so your life can move on in a healthy unaddictive way. Keep it up. Before long u will have months of clean time and so much more freedom from those pils.

It is 4:30am. Ive been cramming all night. Ill wake up in a few hours to hit the books. 2 back to back three hour exams on Thursday. A long time ago, i thought would only be able to do something like this with adderall.

Ashley, yes, I experience those symptoms too. I couldn't stop sweating last week after showering, and everyone was like 'what's wrong with you'.. Realy, You guys killed it this week!! Li'l Tex Im blown away!!

Wow cat and ill text, you two are AMAZING. lil tex.. Woah that's amazing. Rest up!!!! Two back to back half marathons!!! Cat I think you are responding to me and Ashley's mileage from last week. I am big fat zero this week. I'm in finals crunch time wishing I had a photographic memory right now. Ugh. I have finals all this week and then I have move all my stuff out Friday and fly home on early sat. Hopefully I'll be back on track the week after that.

Falling asleep to flashcards

It is possible to accomplish goals and be really productive feeling relaxed and calm. Adderall makes you forget that.

My favorite character on this show died in real life sad.http://www.businessinsider.com/rip-silicon-valley-christopher-evan-welch-2014-4#!HxRxf

You feel productive but the only thing you have accomplished is smoked a bunch of cigarettes, felt "wired" and not slept for two days! It becomes more apparently clear that that was your existence on adderall, the more clean time you get away from it.

a friend of mine gave me this quote and I found it applied to finals week and getting clean from adderall. "If you are going through hell keep going" -Winston Churchill

Finals week stress

naptime, then prepare for finals.

congratz!!!

Congratz man, that's great!!

Be Strong!

Thank goodness I got my job with my current place. A company called today to schedule an interview and after some googling I found out it was the pharmaceutical company that creates and markets CONCERTA. If I was really desperate u probably all would have killed me but I'd probably consider interviewing there if I desperately needed job and no other opportunities. Its a tough job market! Thank god I'm not in the that position. But I had to share.lol. the only bright side to concerta and adderall i guess is that they create jobs for people.

Good job Ashley! Much better. 14 for me. I did them all outside on the track in 85-90 degree weather. Very, Very Sore legs right now.

im all about Silicon Valley now. Im caught up. Looking forward to tonight.

I really don't think there is a difference but I would like to add to what other people have said on this thread that Adderall is especially dangerous because of that psychological dependency u build on it. I think that distinguishes it from other drug addictions where there is a more of a physical dependency. It really takes over your mind. I remember at one point I felt like if I wanted to pay attention to watch a movie from beginning to end I would have to take adderall. I laugh at that now but I really believed I needed it to do the most minor things. It took so extremely long for me to break free and feel like I was able to do basic things without it. I may be an extreme case but I still get strong adderall withdrawal symptoms like withdrawal headaches and cravings even though I have been clean from it for many years. It is certainly not a drug to mess around with.

The 100 is on CW though. I hate CW. Maybe I'll watch 1 episode. I heard Salem was really good. It just debuted last week. I want to watch an episode of that too. Right now my shows are blacklist, following and game of thrones. Edit I just watched a little bit of Salem and a little bit of 100. They both look promising. Edit: Silicon Valley is hilarious. This will be the one I watch.

Yeah flight was a great movie. I think there is a thread on it in the lounge. Lost weekend is an old black and white movie that won the academy award for best picture, that film really resonated with me in terms of depicting addiction.