DopamineAllocation
Greenlighter
- Joined
- Mar 30, 2015
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Hello all, this is my first post since creating an account. I created an account to ask questions that others around me couldn't answer due to lack of experience and to provide any knowledge I have to those who may find it useful. Anyways, on with the topic.
I've been prescribed stimulants for ADHD/ADD since 2nd grade. I have very little memory of how they affected me other than I didn't like to take them because they made me extremely nauseous and uninterested in eating, as a result, I lost alot of weight. However, I was required to take them at the time. So eventually, I fixed the problem by simply not taking them. Recently, I have started to take them and have learned to really enjoy the benefits that they give me. However, there are still some negative aspects to it that simply discourages daily use of them. Most of those are very typical like the general comedown and overall bad feeling when the drug wears off, feeling cold etc... This is normal to me. However, upon being around those who have taken amphetamines for reasons other than medical, I find that the drug really seems to benefit their social skills and ability to be around. For example, some will become very animate/talkative, laugh alot more and just sound more smarter than they would if they weren't feeling the effects of the drug.
While I achieve most of the 'positive effects' from it, such as motivation, able to make conversation, talkativity, etc... I find that these effects vary alot throughout the duration of the experience. Within the first hour of using the drug, I find myself able to make conversation so much easier and ramble on with ease. However, upon being told a joke or something I'd normally find humorous, I am not amused by it. In fact, I'm quite unable to respond, other than being able to make a comment on the absurdity of the joke. I also find it very hard for me to even smile while on stimulants. The social benefits quickly disappear after the first hour or so, and then I'm actually untalkative at all and find myself quite unnormal in any sort of social setting. Especially as far as humor goes, I will be completely speechless when it comes to someone attemtping to make me laugh (which normally isnt difficult whatsoever) I maintain the motivation 'benefit', but only with things that interest me. I keep the talkativity as well, as long as the topic is interesting to me and not face to face. But humor is completely non-existant throughout the experience, and any noticable benefit such as being animate and into conversation disappears within the first hour or so.
My main question is, why does it affect me like this? Why does it strip me of any ability to make humor or receive? The only humor I can really make is the absurd ways that I respond to people's joke, people take it as if I'm being a smartass. Is this a result of the paradoxical effects amphetamines have on those who have ADHD and those who don't? Just wanted to know if anyone has any answers to that, or if they can relate to my situation.
Thanks in advance.
I've been prescribed stimulants for ADHD/ADD since 2nd grade. I have very little memory of how they affected me other than I didn't like to take them because they made me extremely nauseous and uninterested in eating, as a result, I lost alot of weight. However, I was required to take them at the time. So eventually, I fixed the problem by simply not taking them. Recently, I have started to take them and have learned to really enjoy the benefits that they give me. However, there are still some negative aspects to it that simply discourages daily use of them. Most of those are very typical like the general comedown and overall bad feeling when the drug wears off, feeling cold etc... This is normal to me. However, upon being around those who have taken amphetamines for reasons other than medical, I find that the drug really seems to benefit their social skills and ability to be around. For example, some will become very animate/talkative, laugh alot more and just sound more smarter than they would if they weren't feeling the effects of the drug.
While I achieve most of the 'positive effects' from it, such as motivation, able to make conversation, talkativity, etc... I find that these effects vary alot throughout the duration of the experience. Within the first hour of using the drug, I find myself able to make conversation so much easier and ramble on with ease. However, upon being told a joke or something I'd normally find humorous, I am not amused by it. In fact, I'm quite unable to respond, other than being able to make a comment on the absurdity of the joke. I also find it very hard for me to even smile while on stimulants. The social benefits quickly disappear after the first hour or so, and then I'm actually untalkative at all and find myself quite unnormal in any sort of social setting. Especially as far as humor goes, I will be completely speechless when it comes to someone attemtping to make me laugh (which normally isnt difficult whatsoever) I maintain the motivation 'benefit', but only with things that interest me. I keep the talkativity as well, as long as the topic is interesting to me and not face to face. But humor is completely non-existant throughout the experience, and any noticable benefit such as being animate and into conversation disappears within the first hour or so.
My main question is, why does it affect me like this? Why does it strip me of any ability to make humor or receive? The only humor I can really make is the absurd ways that I respond to people's joke, people take it as if I'm being a smartass. Is this a result of the paradoxical effects amphetamines have on those who have ADHD and those who don't? Just wanted to know if anyone has any answers to that, or if they can relate to my situation.
Thanks in advance.
