Wow, I didn't realize it had been almost a year until you said that!
Yes, I'm still on Ritalin--in addition, I found out that the night panics I'd been having (which I mentioned in that post as well) are actually sleep apnea. Turns out, when you can't breathe at night, you often wake up in a panic. Who'da thought? :)
I normally take 1 Ritalin per day now, instead of the 2 I've been prescribed. Days without it are still less productive than days with it. The biggest change, though, has been understanding how my ADHD ties in to just about everything I do...it was why I couldn't connect with people, why I had trouble getting things done, and why my productivity never seemed to be where I felt like it should be. (The whole "should" thing is a trap in and of itself, but that's a different post for another time.)
I vastly prefer Ritalin to Adderall since the Ritalin doesn't give me the "narrow focus" issue I complained about with Adderall in my 2006 post. Ritalin is generally considered to have more mild effects than Adderall, and different people react differently to them.
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Wow, I didn't realize it had been almost a year until you said that!
Yes, I'm still on Ritalin--in addition, I found out that the night panics I'd been having (which I mentioned in that post as well) are actually sleep apnea. Turns out, when you can't breathe at night, you often wake up in a panic. Who'da thought? :)
I normally take 1 Ritalin per day now, instead of the 2 I've been prescribed. Days without it are still less productive than days with it. The biggest change, though, has been understanding how my ADHD ties in to just about everything I do...it was why I couldn't connect with people, why I had trouble getting things done, and why my productivity never seemed to be where I felt like it should be. (The whole "should" thing is a trap in and of itself, but that's a different post for another time.)
I vastly prefer Ritalin to Adderall since the Ritalin doesn't give me the "narrow focus" issue I complained about with Adderall in my 2006 post. Ritalin is generally considered to have more mild effects than Adderall, and different people react differently to them.
Any chance you could explain more about how ADHD interfered with you connecting with people?
Sure; I gave a great example in my blog post here: http://www.erica.biz/2012/failure-success/
Feel free to email me with more specific questions if you like; email is in my profile.