I’ve struggled a lot with trying to take drug holidays. When I do them, I end up lying in bed all day and become depressed and/or extremely tired.
What are things that you do to make it easier?
For those that don’t know: A ‘drug holiday’ is essentially a day that you don’t take your ADHD medication so that your body has time to decrease tolerance and make the medication more effective.
define “adhd meds”.
Not taking a stimulant shouldn’t cause anxiety or depression, but going cold turkey for antidepressants might after a short while and just not taking those is nothing i’d recommend in any case.
I take concerta which although a stimulant is also an SNRI, so a lot of drugs in this class are also anti depressants. Even with amphetamines one of the most common withdrawal side effects is depression.
Do you stop the SNRI on your holidays? If so, don’t.
I’ve never taken concerta but I have taken a different SNRI and I’d start to feel like utter shit by the afternoon if I forgot to take it in the morning. I would be way more worried about skipping an SNRI than a stimulant, personally.
I don’t do drug holidays. I know a lot of people do, but I just can’t function. It makes sense that when you don’t take the medicine that helps you function, it’s really hard to function.
An SNRI should be taken every day (at the same time) or you’re going to feel weird. It’s not like the amphetamine meds.
Edit: actually that’s Methylphenidate (Ritalin) which “acts primarily as a norepinephrine–dopamine reuptake inhibitor (NDRI).”
Ohhh okay, that makes more sense. My bad.