Oh, this is fun. I always love looking back on how much epic fail my Vyvanse prescription has caused me. I'm pretty hardcore ADHD, but went entirely through grade school and two years of college undiagnosed and untreated. I also have strong social anxiety, and developed an addiction to benzos through careless, non-prescribed self dosing. After beating that last summer, I took antidepressants (also non-prescribed) for about a month and a half before becoming disenchanted with the emotional numbness. Shortly before school started back up, I decided to try a semester taking Vyvanse in an attempt to salvage my collegiate career. I had plenty of experience with psychedelics/mdma/opiates/benzos/sedatives going into it, but virtually zero prior stimulant involvement. Basically I'd set myself up the ultimate recipe for failure... an impulsive, recreational drug user with a previous addiction, emerging from a state of emotional homeostasis and heading into the land of extended release amphetamine.
On the odd day that I took the proper dose after a night of sleep, Vyvanse definitely helped with school. But the majority of the time, I pretty much just spent a week super tweaked, caught in that dichotomy of dysfunctional euphoria, followed by a few weeks of sluggishness until it came time to refill. My grades didn't turn out too good, but I'm proud that I at least finished the semester without any Fs >.<
I sincerely hope the information obtained through research projects will be used to accomplish some good in the pharmaceutical/mental health businesses. I hate recreationally abusable pharmaceuticals (amphetamines especially), because I can't help but love them, and they're far too available and overly prescribed.