Help me out: An experiment

[faquewdikhed]

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I got an 86. I'm a part time player. I have been diagnosed with ADD. I had a prescription for adderall that I got my junior year in college and had for a year. I stopped filling my prescription because i couldn't handle it at all. I was taking it 7 days a week when there was absolutely no need and it turned me in to a speed freak. Other peoples parents asked their kids (my roommates): What's wrong with James? So now if I need adderall for recreational purposes I go to my roommate who handles his prescription much better.

All that being said, if I am going to a casino for a long day or sitting down on a weekend to try to grind out over 100 sngs I will take an adderall and think nothing of playing for 8+ hours without a break. I know my play is infinitely better when I take it.

Let me know if anybody has anymore questions regarding any of this, I'm happy to share.

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How old are you? Did the adderall help? Did you just make an appointment with a psych and get evaluated or something? How do you deal with this now? I have been thinking I am ADD for quite some time now, but things have always come very easily for me in school so I never did anything about it. Then I hit mid-junior year, classes were harder, and I lacked the discipline it took to get good grades, so I dropped my courseload and took some time off. I'm going back to school this semester and don't want to fk it up. Anything else you have to offer is appreciated. I am 23 as of yesterday.

[Manque]

70. Poker represents a healthy chunk of my income.

[fluorescenthippo]

26 - pro

[ReNoRyan]

44 recreational

[blinlk182]

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I got an 86. I'm a part time player. I have been diagnosed with ADD. I had a prescription for adderall that I got my junior year in college and had for a year. I stopped filling my prescription because i couldn't handle it at all. I was taking it 7 days a week when there was absolutely no need and it turned me in to a speed freak. Other peoples parents asked their kids (my roommates): What's wrong with James? So now if I need adderall for recreational purposes I go to my roommate who handles his prescription much better.

All that being said, if I am going to a casino for a long day or sitting down on a weekend to try to grind out over 100 sngs I will take an adderall and think nothing of playing for 8+ hours without a break. I know my play is infinitely better when I take it.

Let me know if anybody has anymore questions regarding any of this, I'm happy to share.

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How old are you? Did the adderall help? Did you just make an appointment with a psych and get evaluated or something? How do you deal with this now? I have been thinking I am ADD for quite some time now, but things have always come very easily for me in school so I never did anything about it. Then I hit mid-junior year, classes were harder, and I lacked the discipline it took to get good grades, so I dropped my courseload and took some time off. I'm going back to school this semester and don't want to fk it up. Anything else you have to offer is appreciated. I am 23 as of yesterday.

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I am 23 and graduated college in 05. I graduated with honors from a top university and have always been a pretty bright kid. As I mentioned above, I got my rx my junior year, spring semester and kept filling it through fall semester senior year.

I was Computer Science/Spanish major in school. I had always been able to handle computer science because I could do small independent pieces of work and eventually create something much larger. Spanish started causing me a lot of problems when we were reading entire books though. I just couldn't get anything.

My comprehension/speaking was always fine, but my reading just wasn't cutting it. It was basically like I was reading sentences and understanding individual words but failing to form complete coherent sentences in my mind. It just didn't click. Post adderall this was very very different. I could read anything and understand everything. I could stick my head in a book, read the entire thing and look at my watch and four or five hours had gone by. Adderall definitely worked/works for me.

I had first tried it a year or two earlier from friends who had prescriptions and recognized immediately how much it helped me. I never actually went around trying to get diagnosed/get it, and only wound up going to see doctors because I had told my mother how much it helped and she made calls. Definitely never would have gotten through the procrastination to get that done.

I saw several doctors before i got the prescription as well. The first two basically said the same thing after talking with me for an hour or so. They thought I had ADD, but didn't want to write me a prescription because they felt I had learned to cope with it. The third doctor I basically told how much it helped me and he gave me the prescription.

Dealing with it now isn't always easy. I still steal some from my roommate once in a while when I have a ton of stuff to get through at work, like today for instance (also note the length of this post as a result [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]). Easy stuff I can pick up right away still and just get, stuff that I have to read up on can still be a challenge.

[TheNoodleMan]

71 pro

My favoreite part was the last question:
I am distressed by the disorganized way my brain works... the only one that I answered not at all.

[Supersetoy]

38 - Recreational

[FoldYourLife]

38 semi-pro.

[evasive]

64 part-timer

Did anybody else press the clear button without looking properly and have to retake ?

[KPL]

29-Recreational