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I don’t know what to tell you then. About a billion studies since have said that people with ADHD who use their prescription as directed will not get addicted. I’ve taken it every day for a month and then forgotten it. I regularly forget it before I leave for work so I keep a spare bottle in my purse with a single dose or two just in case.

I think it’s easier for a person with an addiction to get a diagnosis and then abuse it than it is for a person with ADHD to get addicted to the medicine. But also it doesn’t do any of those things for me that would get me addicted; I’m told it causes euphoria in people. I’m told it causes high energy. I’m told it’s basically a party drug! I can take it and all it does is make me focus on stuff I’m supposed to instead of whatever I happen to focus on.

As for the opiate thing, I’ve been prescribed them for pain and I hate how they make me feel. My pain has to be truly god awful for me to actually take one.

So I guess what I’m saying is obviously your experience isn’t invalid but I disagree on your takeaway. (Wish I replied after I woke up and took my meds so this answer wouldn’t be a billion words long and meandering lol)

The thing about mental health is, if your brain chemicals aren’t buttfucking you, you can live not because someone else might care, but because you care.

That should be enough.

You are enough.

After extensive reading there isn’t any real answer for this question. Studies into why men or women choose specific methods are scarce. Speaking from personal experience, I chose poisoning because I didn’t want to leave a massive bloody mess behind for someone to have to clean up.

One study (with a small sample size) that asked men who survived an attempted suicide using a firearm showed that many of them answers they picked the gun because it was available.

Of two of the men I’ve known who committed suicide, one used a gun (behind his house and was found by two neighbor children playing, just awful) and the other hanged himself.

I think we need to do more research into why before making a definitive claim.

For people who do not have ADHD, the medication used to treat ADHD can be extremely addictive.

I had to explain to my boyfriend that my cat absolutely has a “name” for him. My cat has specific meows for all his favorite humans.

I dunno. I’m a woman and I didn’t notice the skin-tight thing until it was pointed out, but looking back at it, wouldn’t any clothes do that at 90 mph?

ACAB but it doesn’t look horny to me. She’s just woman-shaped to me.

And it doesn’t matter where it’s located.

You’ll just wind up in the queue regardless.

This is absolutely wild! I’m so glad I saw this today.

Idiots like that think that human rights are finite, and if someone else gets them, they lose then.

It’s remarkably stupid.

Cows make best friends. You probably saw a cow who just daw her beat friend die.

Also what’s the worst possible speedball? I am now very curious.

Thank you for backing up my public awareness thingie. People are kinda dumb sometimes so they’ll read “it gets you way too drunk way too fast” and they’ll miss the part where, “but no you’ll hate it.”

In this particular warning, adderall in your system dramatically increases the way you metabolize alcohol. Two swallows of rum and I am wasted. It feels very, very dangerous (alcohol poisoning-wise.)

I might be drunk, but “Wrong, it’s tea,” made me laugh a lot.

Also, this is a Public Awareness Announcement. If you have ADHD and you take stimulant medication, don’t mix alcohol. You will experience regret.

It’s their suddenness that freaks me out. I had been sitting on my couch for two hours the other night when one scuttled out from beneath my feet!

Oh! I’ve always lived more rurally, so I’m not familiar with the lack of porches in cities. That bites!

The problem I had with this is that it’s an apathy that he himself had until recently, and now he’s a smug prick hating on his wife for not being cool enough to break the law like he does.

He never tells her what he’s doing. He believes he can’t. So instead of trying to communicate, and dealing with the fallout of a difficult discussion, he just judges her for being who he was.

It’s still a dick move no matter how it’s justified!

Truly the voice of several generations.

I always hated the obvious disdain with which the author treats a woman doing a teleplay in her own home.

Acting is a skill, and recreation has value. If a person sitting in their own living room doing VR episodes of TV where they play a part, that doesn’t make them vapid or foolish or represent an unwise use of their time.

I have watched movies that have had an equal lack of need of my input that still managed to make me think and feel you condescending prick! And I have read books with which I’ve had infinitely less intellectual involvement than a woman pretending to be a character in a soap opera! Take your elitist victimization fetish and shove it up your ass!

…sorry, I actually love parts of Fahrenheit 451. But I’ve been angry about this for years. The “hero” of the story denigrating his own wife because of how he views her hobby? Because in his mind, it isn’t as intellectually stimulating as his new, illegal hobby? What an asshole.