What the parent comment is saying is true. I’m diagnosed and medicated for ADHD but struggled with a bad amphetamine addiction in my late teens. I’ve been clean for nearly a decade now but we don’t have some sort of superpower that frees us from from addiction, especially not from the physical aspects of it that OP specifically referred to. Do you think you wouldn’t get a week of headaches when quitting a pot of coffee a day?
Your comment is insulting, ignorant and genuinely upsetting as someone who went through absolute hell
I have tried so many stimulants and been on a chunky dose of methamphetamine and have at zero points in time felt any kind of urge to use stimulants for anything other than necessity or because of social situations. Literally physical or mental urges. I frequently forget to take my meds because there is zero withdrawal. A big part is that I don’t get high from stimulants, they slow my thoughts down. Cocaine as always calming for me so it was like trading places!
Since it is a spectrum I’m certain this isn’t true for everyone, but it really is a thing for a lot of us because we don’t react to stimulants like the average person.
What the parent comment is saying is true. I’m diagnosed and medicated for ADHD but struggled with a bad amphetamine addiction in my late teens. I’ve been clean for nearly a decade now but we don’t have some sort of superpower that frees us from from addiction, especially not from the physical aspects of it that OP specifically referred to. Do you think you wouldn’t get a week of headaches when quitting a pot of coffee a day?
Your comment is insulting, ignorant and genuinely upsetting as someone who went through absolute hell
I have tried so many stimulants and been on a chunky dose of methamphetamine and have at zero points in time felt any kind of urge to use stimulants for anything other than necessity or because of social situations. Literally physical or mental urges. I frequently forget to take my meds because there is zero withdrawal. A big part is that I don’t get high from stimulants, they slow my thoughts down. Cocaine as always calming for me so it was like trading places!
Since it is a spectrum I’m certain this isn’t true for everyone, but it really is a thing for a lot of us because we don’t react to stimulants like the average person.