LandsUnknown
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Thoughts? I have tried both.
Adderall (for me):
I've taken adderall daily for the last several months, and yes it has improved my focus. It also gives me a slight mood lift. However, it tends to make me hyperfocus and not always on the right things. Though, it does definitely improve my work performance somewhat. Though, it's not like the limitless pill or anything of course nor was I expecting such a thing from it. But it definitely does improve my performance and make me generally sharper on the job.
I do have moderate ADHD that I've genuinely struggled with my whole life. However, I feel that I would benefit from a slightly higher dosage (I'm currently at 10 milligrams XR a day, which is an extremely low dose for an adult with ADHD). My current doctor refuses to prescribe a higher dose, though he's a sleep medicine doctor so not a specialist in it or even in psychiatric related concerns. He also has a sign on his door "this office doesn't prescribe narcotics", so he is likely very averse to prescribing any amount of controlled substances it seems and focuses primarily on sleep studies and sleep medicine. However, since I moved I chose to go to him for my general physician for some reason. Not sure why
On many days, the medication seems to be quite ineffective overall. So, I'm going to get a proper opinion on my ADHD from a psychiatrist. I've never even taken the tests for it or anything, though I have wanted to, merely out of curiosity. Yet the doctor I went to didn't offer that or anything. Admittedly, I have taken extras at times. Times that I have, I have often found that it was much more effective when I took 20 milligrams a day instead of the 10. Much better focus and much less focus on the wrong things, better time management and switching between tasks easier for me. I found that on the days that I took the 20 milligrams either by taking two 10 milligram XRs or two ten milligram IRs one in the morning and one around lunchtime, I was not only more productive but able to switch between tasks far more easily. Overall, I have found that the medication was far more effective at this dose even than when I initially took the 10 milligrams. I haven't really built any tolerance to it per say, but I have found that the 10 milligrams simply isn't as effective as it should be.
I never ran out of it or anything though, since when I first got the prescription, the pharmacy literally gave me around 100-125+ 10 milligram immediate release doses. So, even if I ran out a few days/a week or so early, I would take the "extras" that the pharmacy gave me. Thus, I have been putting off "seeing a psychiatrist" for a second opinion for my ADHD due to the stigma associated with seeing a "head doctor". Despite this, I really do need a second opinion. Perhaps, I even would be given a different medication altogether, which would be completely fine with me as long as it worked a bit better.
Microdosing:
I have had a few experiences with microdosing. Honestly, it did seem to improve my performance. Though, it was more of an enhanced creativity and spontaneous, sharper than normal thinking combined with a bit more focus rather than a strong increase in focus. The effects of microdosing are quite interesting, but I have little experience with it. I have taken full doses of psychedelics quite a few times (around 40 to 45 experiences in total), and I have probably microdosed maybe 7 to 10 times. The first microdose I took was around two years ago, and I have done it from time to time from then until now. I have found that it would give me a sort of smooth stimulation, and it would lead to a slight change in my mental state and mood in some sense. I also would get some of the sensations of psychedelics but on a very low level. It can kind of feel like a low dose of a stimulant in a way, but it is different. A much more creative and "expanded" feeling mentally. No hyperfocus or anything like that. I can't really describe exactly how it changes my performance, though it does seem to improve the quality of my thinking and mental state.
Very hard to describe. It doesn't cause any euphoria or visuals. Though, interestingly every time I have microdosed my meditation experience is different on the times that I have meditated. When I would meditate after microdosing, it is very different than otherwise. It has a similar quality to meditating while on full doses of psychedelics. While meditating, I would get the same strobing flashes of blue color that I get when I have taken full doses of psychedelics and meditated while on them. Primarily, the effects seemed to be sharper thinking and a stronger sort of voice in my work that I don't get while not taking any substance or while taking adderall. I have found that I have been quite productive on days that I microdosed, but the primary effect has been a somewhat stronger sense of intuitive awareness of the quality of what I am doing which has been extremely helpful on the days that I have done it. Interestingly, if I microdose in the evenings, I am able to sleep fine. However, the quality of my dreams is very different.
My dreams are much more vivid. Or sometimes I don't dream much. It varies a bit. The content of my dreams also seems different, in a way that is indescribable but oddly enough some of the imagery seems very, very vaguely like that LSD dream emulator game that you see videos of on the internet Not quite that weird but just ever so slightly going in that direction. Not sure, perhaps the game was inspired by microdosing dreams No idea. Or perhaps my dreams are simply affected by the fact that I know I'm sleeping on a very, very low dose of psychedelics and thus takes on those qualities due to the placebo effect. Again, I have no idea. Unlike that, on one occasion after microdosing, I had a very vivid sexual dream that I still remember to this day 
. It was really amazing and unlike any other sexual dream that I have, it was very much like real life in the fact that I oddly have thought about it from time to time in the future even months after I had it. It was amazing, like it stuck with me like it was real life almost due to its vividness. Yet obviously it never felt "real", but the experience was "real" in some sense that non-microdosing dreams never have been. I just took a microdose this evening, so I'll have another experience to discuss with it.
Adderall (for me):
I've taken adderall daily for the last several months, and yes it has improved my focus. It also gives me a slight mood lift. However, it tends to make me hyperfocus and not always on the right things. Though, it does definitely improve my work performance somewhat. Though, it's not like the limitless pill or anything of course nor was I expecting such a thing from it. But it definitely does improve my performance and make me generally sharper on the job.
I do have moderate ADHD that I've genuinely struggled with my whole life. However, I feel that I would benefit from a slightly higher dosage (I'm currently at 10 milligrams XR a day, which is an extremely low dose for an adult with ADHD). My current doctor refuses to prescribe a higher dose, though he's a sleep medicine doctor so not a specialist in it or even in psychiatric related concerns. He also has a sign on his door "this office doesn't prescribe narcotics", so he is likely very averse to prescribing any amount of controlled substances it seems and focuses primarily on sleep studies and sleep medicine. However, since I moved I chose to go to him for my general physician for some reason. Not sure why
On many days, the medication seems to be quite ineffective overall. So, I'm going to get a proper opinion on my ADHD from a psychiatrist. I've never even taken the tests for it or anything, though I have wanted to, merely out of curiosity. Yet the doctor I went to didn't offer that or anything. Admittedly, I have taken extras at times. Times that I have, I have often found that it was much more effective when I took 20 milligrams a day instead of the 10. Much better focus and much less focus on the wrong things, better time management and switching between tasks easier for me. I found that on the days that I took the 20 milligrams either by taking two 10 milligram XRs or two ten milligram IRs one in the morning and one around lunchtime, I was not only more productive but able to switch between tasks far more easily. Overall, I have found that the medication was far more effective at this dose even than when I initially took the 10 milligrams. I haven't really built any tolerance to it per say, but I have found that the 10 milligrams simply isn't as effective as it should be.
I never ran out of it or anything though, since when I first got the prescription, the pharmacy literally gave me around 100-125+ 10 milligram immediate release doses. So, even if I ran out a few days/a week or so early, I would take the "extras" that the pharmacy gave me. Thus, I have been putting off "seeing a psychiatrist" for a second opinion for my ADHD due to the stigma associated with seeing a "head doctor". Despite this, I really do need a second opinion. Perhaps, I even would be given a different medication altogether, which would be completely fine with me as long as it worked a bit better.
Microdosing:
I have had a few experiences with microdosing. Honestly, it did seem to improve my performance. Though, it was more of an enhanced creativity and spontaneous, sharper than normal thinking combined with a bit more focus rather than a strong increase in focus. The effects of microdosing are quite interesting, but I have little experience with it. I have taken full doses of psychedelics quite a few times (around 40 to 45 experiences in total), and I have probably microdosed maybe 7 to 10 times. The first microdose I took was around two years ago, and I have done it from time to time from then until now. I have found that it would give me a sort of smooth stimulation, and it would lead to a slight change in my mental state and mood in some sense. I also would get some of the sensations of psychedelics but on a very low level. It can kind of feel like a low dose of a stimulant in a way, but it is different. A much more creative and "expanded" feeling mentally. No hyperfocus or anything like that. I can't really describe exactly how it changes my performance, though it does seem to improve the quality of my thinking and mental state.
Very hard to describe. It doesn't cause any euphoria or visuals. Though, interestingly every time I have microdosed my meditation experience is different on the times that I have meditated. When I would meditate after microdosing, it is very different than otherwise. It has a similar quality to meditating while on full doses of psychedelics. While meditating, I would get the same strobing flashes of blue color that I get when I have taken full doses of psychedelics and meditated while on them. Primarily, the effects seemed to be sharper thinking and a stronger sort of voice in my work that I don't get while not taking any substance or while taking adderall. I have found that I have been quite productive on days that I microdosed, but the primary effect has been a somewhat stronger sense of intuitive awareness of the quality of what I am doing which has been extremely helpful on the days that I have done it. Interestingly, if I microdose in the evenings, I am able to sleep fine. However, the quality of my dreams is very different.
My dreams are much more vivid. Or sometimes I don't dream much. It varies a bit. The content of my dreams also seems different, in a way that is indescribable but oddly enough some of the imagery seems very, very vaguely like that LSD dream emulator game that you see videos of on the internet
Not quite that weird but just ever so slightly going in that direction. Not sure, perhaps the game was inspired by microdosing dreams No idea. Or perhaps my dreams are simply affected by the fact that I know I'm sleeping on a very, very low dose of psychedelics and thus takes on those qualities due to the placebo effect. Again, I have no idea. Unlike that, on one occasion after microdosing, I had a very vivid sexual dream that I still remember to this day . It was really amazing and unlike any other sexual dream that I have, it was very much like real life in the fact that I oddly have thought about it from time to time in the future even months after I had it. It was amazing, like it stuck with me like it was real life almost due to its vividness. Yet obviously it never felt "real", but the experience was "real" in some sense that non-microdosing dreams never have been. I just took a microdose this evening, so I'll have another experience to discuss with it.