Stimulants PLEASE HELP Ritalin personality change

[Adam358]

Hi (I'm new to this site), yesterday (Thursday) I got 2 20mg Ritalin caps off a friend and we all took it for our English assessment in school. I rarely take Ritalin and this was the first time I took Ritalin in a while, and im not even a heavy drug user, i smoke weed every now and then with friends just to pass some time, anyway. First I had 1 cap which took effect within 20 min then an hour later I took the second cap, which totals into 40mg of Ritalin. It become hell! My eyes were wide, I was really nervous and uneasy, my hands and feet were freezing, my heart was racing and I had shortness of breath and when ever I spoke to somone I was whispering.. Anyway too the next day it was around 2:30 pm I smoked a cigarette nothing else. Then around 30 min after i was feeling the same experiences again of the Ritalin but not as strong, just freezing hands and nervousness but I didn't notice it until ppl were saying if I was high because my face looked worried and my eyes were wide open. I've now realised my whole fucking personality had changed, nothing seems to be the same anymore, I feel trapped and I don't feel the same person as I was before, everything seems dark, I'm not normal anymore, I'm freaking out because I'm scared if my personality will be changed like this forever. I will never take Ritalin again so will my personality come back please my heart is pounding as I type this please please someone give me good news. I feel like a completely different person and I've learnt my lesson not to try stuff in high doses again, somone please give me good news my personality will be back to normal again. I'm constantly nervious with a worrying face and the fact that ive become a different person over a night scares me and i feel like a zombie. I'm usually energetic and happy but not anymore.... Please Please give me good news please, will this go away after ive stopped ritalin for like a week? I feel like killing myself, please give good news...

 

[sekio]

You took too much Ritalin and got too high and probably had a panic attack. It's as simple as that... it's traumatic and your body probably interprets some of the phsyical stimulation effects as a cause to panic now.

It'll wear off in a day or so. Get some sleep, lots of fluids, take a vitamin C or two and don't worry about it.Don't smoke or take anything for a few days.

As drugs do Ritalin is pretty much nontoxic although it's really bad for inducing anxiety in some people!