How to get "unstuck" while on adderall/amphetamines/stimulants?

[Deemgd]

The past two days I've been taking very large doses of adderall with the intent of getting things done around the house. Instead, both times, I instead found myself stuck, obsessively searching these forums and the internet, and by the time i realize it 10 hours have gone by and I've accomplished nothing, defeating the whole purpose of taking them. I just can't motivate myself to stop what I'm doing to do something else, or if i try and start doing something else every little thing distracts me and thwarts my efforts.

How do you avoid this? I guess the easy answer would be to not go on the internet to begin with, but i keep telling myself I'm just going to go on it while I wait for the amps to kick in, and before i know it it's 10 hours later and time to start trying to force myself to get at least a couple hours of sleep. It's like my brain compulsivly tells me I NEED to be on the internet, if that makes sense, and i can't focus on anything else.

I used to smoke crack with a guy who would get stuck peering out Windows for hours due to paranoia, but i have never had these effects until now, even on previous adderall binges.

Any advice? I have shit to do!

 

[brominated]

Any advice?... Don't take such high doses. That's your entire problem, dude. x'D

--brominated

 

[Deemgd]

Any advice?... Don't take such high doses. That's your entire problem, dude. x'D

--brominated

I was under the assumption that higher doses would cause MORE motivation and energy and not wanting to sit still. Never in a million years would i imagine I'd be sitting on the couch the whole time.

 

[brominated]

I was under the assumption that higher doses would cause MORE motivation and energy and not wanting to sit still. Never in a million years would i imagine I'd be sitting on the couch the whole time.

Lol.
What /are/ the doses you're taking? is it extended-release? Where'd you get it?

 

[Deemgd]

Lol.
What /are/ the doses you're taking? is it extended-release? Where'd you get it?

I took 200 mgs the first day and the next day i took 300 mgs and couldn't feel anything. Half IR and Half XR. I take the xrs in the morning and the irs for subsequent doses. i ended up taking such huge doses because the effects weren't anywhere near what i had expected them to be, so I thought i hadn't taken enough. I have a cousin with ADHD who gets 30 of the 25mg XRS and 30 of the 15mg IRS every month. She doesn't take them but sells them every month

 

[Deemgd]

Lol.
What /are/ the doses you're taking? is it extended-release? Where'd you get it?

I guess for me that was always the case with cocaine. The more I did, the stronger the effects got. I guess i just assumed it was the same with all stimulants. Cut me some slack my preferred drugs are opiates, LOL, whole different world lol.

 

[Pickledlemons]

I was under the assumption that higher doses would cause MORE motivation and energy and not wanting to sit still. Never in a million years would i imagine I'd be sitting on the couch the whole time.

I find there is a line where taking more does not increase motivation but simply gives you more attention to detail.

For example. Maybe a couple points of speed and I'll spend the night cleaning my whole room. But if I did half a gram I would spend that whole time cleaning just my closet. If I did a whole gram I would spend the whole time picking lint off a single sweater.

Doing more can simply zoom in the microscope.

Take less.

 

[T. Calderone]

In BDD, we field questions mainly related to drug combinations and basic dosages. Topics such as this would be a better fit in social or Drug Culture so I'm moving your thread over there.

 

[Deemgd]

ANNNND I just had a an epiphany. I used to wonder how some meth addicts could have such disgusting houses, as I figured a stimulant that strong would have them constantly moving/doing things/cleaning everything and making every detail perfect. Now i know ???

 

[Deemgd]

I find there is a line where taking more does not increase motivation but simply gives you more attention to detail.

For example. Maybe a couple points of speed and I'll spend the night cleaning my whole room. But if I did half a gram I would spend that whole time cleaning just my closet. If I did a whole gram I would spend the whole time picking lint off a single sweater.

Doing more can simply zoom in the microscope.

Take less.

THIS. Best exploration ever. Thank you!

 

[Jabberwocky]

Please correct me if I'm wrong but you've only been taking taking very large doses of adderall with the intent of getting things done around the house? This implies you're not medically prescribed it it.

So if this is the correct the answer to your question of:

'Any advice? I have shit to do!'

Get an early night, wake up early, have a decent breakfast and coffee and get your lazy fucking ass doing what you need to do.

You do not need pills to enable you do to things.

Jesus, kids these days.

 

[Deemgd]

Please correct me if I'm wrong but you've only been taking taking very large doses of adderall with the intent of getting things done around the house? This implies you're not medically prescribed it it.

So if this is the correct the answer to your question of:

'Any advice? I have shit to do!'

Get an early night, wake up early, have a decent breakfast and coffee and get your lazy fucking ass doing what you need to do.

You do not need pills to enable you do to things.

Jesus, kids these days.

No need to be rude. I do, in fact, need pills to enable me to do things. First of all I suffer from spinal damage that causes such immense pain that I can't even get out of bed half of the time, even with being prescribed morphine sulfate and hydrocodone, let alone "do things" as simple as laundry or washing dishes.

And please don't get me started on depression. Without an antidepressant, due to my brain chemistry, I would never want to get out of bed. You just don't care. About anything. At all.

Both of these issues are what lead me to start dabbling with amphetimines. I was desperate to be able to take care of my son and the house like a normal person, and I thought this would give me enough energy, motivation, and focus to push through both the pain she depression in order to accomplish that, even just for a few days. My husband is our of town this weekend and i am left alone to care for our four year old autistic son. I can't lay in bed all weekend because I can't get up and let him supervise himself.

So, while not everyone does , I in fact, DO need pills to "do things" (even simple ones like cook my son dinner or give him a bath) that healthy people who aren't "lazy" as you put it take for granted.

I do have legitimate medical problems that cause me to depend on medication to even halfway function. While the adderall is not my script, I was put in a situation where i had to come up with a plan that would enable me to take care of a small child alone and do things I'm physically and mentally not able to
For three days. This was the best i could come up with given my options.

 

[Jabberwocky]

No need to be rude. I do, in fact, need pills to enable me to do things. First of all I suffer from spinal damage that causes such immense pain that I can't even get out of bed half of the time, even with being prescribed morphine sulfate and hydrocodone, let alone "do things" as simple as laundry or washing dishes.

And please don't get me started on depression. Without an antidepressant, due to my brain chemistry, I would never want to get out of bed. You just don't care. About anything. At all.

Both of these issues are what lead me to start dabbling with amphetimines. I was desperate to be able to take care of my son and the house like a normal person, and I thought this would give me enough energy, motivation, and focus to push through both the pain she depression in order to accomplish that, even just for a few days. My husband is our of town this weekend and i am left alone to care for our four year old autistic son. I can't lay in bed all weekend because I can't get up and let him supervise himself.

So, while not everyone does , I in fact, DO need pills to "do things" (even simple ones like cook my son dinner or give him a bath) that healthy people who aren't "lazy" as you put it take for granted.

I do have legitimate medical problems that cause me to depend on medication to even halfway function. While the adderall is not my script, I was put in a situation where i had to come up with a plan that would enable me to take care of a small child alone and do things I'm physically and mentally not able to
For three days. This was the best i could come up with given my options.

Well I apologies, the way you worded your post really sounded like you just wanted some extra energy to do some work,

 

[Deemgd]

No problem. There was no way for you to know. I'm just very sensitive about it, my physiCal limitations make me feel worthless most of the time.

 

[LucidSDreamr]

First of all I suffer from spinal damage that causes such immense pain that I can't even get out of bed half of the time, even with being prescribed morphine sulfate and hydrocodone, let alone "do things" as simple as laundry or washing dishes.

I'm curious as to what your spinal condition is? have you had surgery? where do you live in US or no?

I had spinal surgery 2 years ago and still experience pretty horrid pain sometimes. i'm very successful and have a PhD in a field which lets me understand the drugs more than doctors, yet they won't prescribe anything. All they offer is dirty drugs (like antideprssants or lyrica for pain) injections and more surgery. They won't presribe opioids to a person like me with 10 year history of back pain and surgery on my record. I am forced to use street drugs and hope they aren't fentanyl laced fakes.

 

[Deemgd]

I'm curious as to what your spinal condition is? have you had surgery? where do you live in US or no?

I had spinal surgery 2 years ago and still experience pretty horrid pain sometimes. i'm very successful and have a PhD in a field which lets me understand the drugs more than doctors, yet they won't prescribe anything. All they offer is dirty drugs (like antideprssants or lyrica for pain) injections and more surgery. They won't presribe opioids to a person like me with 10 year history of back pain and surgery on my record. I am forced to use street drugs and hope they aren't fentanyl laced fakes.

My facet joints are crumbling (I literally have shards of bone sticking into muscle and nerves, and anytime I move it gets aggregated) and I also have two herniated discs at l4 and l5. I am also very overweight so the added pressure my weight puts on these areas makes it twice as bad. Even with that, it took me forever to find a doc who would prescribe anything past mild muscle relaxers (if I was lucky), Gabapentin, diclofenac, lidocaine patches/creams, or tramadol (if I was really lucky). Because I've had documented drug overdoses, no one would dare prescribe me opiates.

I was honest with my current doctor about my drug history, and at one point I was in her office talking about how I was getting to the point where suicide was looking good compared to trying to live with the pain everyday. She was compassionate and put me on a pain contract and started prescribing them to me four years ago. She has only drug tested me twice in that time. I just got very, very lucky to find her. Hit the jackpot, actually.

By the way, she is a general practitioner- my primary care doctor. I've found it's much harder to get opiates out of pain management doctors. I think since they are dealing with people in pain all day, they start to get desensitized to the ability to have compassion for people in pain and instead start seeing everyone as drug seekers, and only prescribe in the most severe cases. Before i found my doctor, After I had failed steroid injections in my back per a pain management doctor, I was told that the only thing they had left to offer me was a referral to a psychologist to help me learn to deal with my pain. Real compassionate.

 

[SHAAM]

i know it sucks to here but the advice is to just START what you have to do. like as soon as you take it, don't wait for it to kick in.

example: if you have homework to do, SWALLOW (snorting addies is much more useful for "fun", swallowing it is more productive). and just open up your laptop/book and notebook etc. i KNOW it sucks but if you start even 1 question, and all the sudden it kicks in, before you know it, you won't stop till you're done.

adderall only makes you focus on whatever you're currently doing. i use it a lot for school, and i sell it to many friends. almost all of em come to me with this complaint, and some move on to bigger doses. it's not the dose, just throw yourself into that task.

you aren't alone in this behavior, and you can turn it around u got this! **also, IRs in my experience are more motivating. this is opinion not fact

The past two days I've been taking very large doses of adderall with the intent of getting things done around the house. Instead, both times, I instead found myself stuck, obsessively searching these forums and the internet, and by the time i realize it 10 hours have gone by and I've accomplished nothing, defeating the whole purpose of taking them. I just can't motivate myself to stop what I'm doing to do something else, or if i try and start doing something else every little thing distracts me and thwarts my efforts.

How do you avoid this? I guess the easy answer would be to not go on the internet to begin with, but i keep telling myself I'm just going to go on it while I wait for the amps to kick in, and before i know it it's 10 hours later and time to start trying to force myself to get at least a couple hours of sleep. It's like my brain compulsivly tells me I NEED to be on the internet, if that makes sense, and i can't focus on anything else.

I used to smoke crack with a guy who would get stuck peering out Windows for hours due to paranoia, but i have never had these effects until now, even on previous adderall binges.

Any advice? I have shit to do!

 

[Deemgd]

i know it sucks to here but the advice is to just START what you have to do. like as soon as you take it, don't wait for it to kick in.

example: if you have homework to do, SWALLOW (snorting addies is much more useful for "fun", swallowing it is more productive). and just open up your laptop/book and notebook etc. i KNOW it sucks but if you start even 1 question, and all the sudden it kicks in, before you know it, you won't stop till you're done.

adderall only makes you focus on whatever you're currently doing. i use it a lot for school, and i sell it to many friends. almost all of em come to me with this complaint, and some move on to bigger doses. it's not the dose, just throw yourself into that task.

you aren't alone in this behavior, and you can turn it around u got this! **also, IRs in my experience are more motivating. this is opinion not fact

Thank you. Now I know. I kept taking more and more until I got to dangerous doses because I was sitting on the couch scrolling through my phone waiting for the motivation to kick in. I ended up just scrolling on my phone (really fast) the whole time because this big motivation kick I expected didn't come. It made the time go by really fast though ?

 

[Tubbs]

Lol good ole tweaker time. "I'll be there in ten bro", six hours later you're still in your house waiting to leave.

 

[lucifersam666]

Wow, OP. Those are some massive doses you were taking! Like really, massive...200-300mg is so outrageous, man. You should look into the health risks associated with high doses of adderall. I'm only hoping you have a tolerance/experience with stims.

Are you consuming these doses all at once or scattered throughout the day? How long have you been doing this? (forgive me if this has been mentioned)
But either way, Lower your dose please!! (consider by 50% as a start). I am almost certain you will see results.
Most importantly, Go get a check up at your GP and/or see a cardiovascular specialist!!

Good luck buddy.