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Ritalin, I think it's destroyed me

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18 Feb 2009, 10:06 pm

I was on that sh*t a while ago. doctors misdiagnosed me with ADHD when i was young when the only thing i was is autistic and heavily stimmy.

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18 Feb 2009, 11:08 pm

I was put on Ritalin when I was five years old, and it turned me into a zombie. I was high energy, but not hyperactive or inattentive. AS was not a known diagnosis at that time.

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19 Feb 2009, 4:12 am

My experience with ritalin was very mild..it was a very low dose. My experience with Adderall caused me to have a major nervous breakdown.

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19 Feb 2009, 4:39 am

Thank goodness the days of Ritalin are long over!

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19 Feb 2009, 5:03 am

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I was diagnosed with Asperger's and ADHD so I was put on Ritalin, but I then decided to have an overdose because I was feeling quite hurt and insecure, and I can't tell you how much I regret it, I am 16 years old and I stayed up three nights ina row because of it, and I had really odd thoughts and by the third day, I think I got psychosis and I believed that I was schitzophrenic and I had a multiple personality disooder, I went into ym room and wrote a 3 page letter for the doctor saying why it isn't Asperger's or ADHd that I've got. Looking back now I was totally out of my mind, but at the time I really believed it,
I regert this so much and I hope it is only some kind of shot-term sensitivty thing because right now I feel stuck.

Staying up for 3 days will make you a little crazy. Dont do it.

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19 Feb 2009, 5:16 am

When my step-cousin was about 8 years old, he was put on ritalin. It completely messed him up & turned him into a total zombie, basically. His parents took him off it within a year, when things started getting really bad. He got better, but he's still not the same & he's 22 years old. That stuff's really dangerous, as well as overly prescribed... especially to teenagers & younger children.

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19 Feb 2009, 7:48 am

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Hi, I posted a thread about this before except I havn't been the same since the overdose I did, my thoughts have gne, my iterest in everything has gone, I feel nothing and I feel deatched from my old self, I don't feel depressed or anything even though I'm desperate to be my old self again, I thought that this would only be a temporary after effect but it hasn't changed at all in neally three days, I cant tell my Mum becuase she would go mad, I've lost all of my creative, intelligent and thoughts for the future, my emotions are gone, I just had to say this to someone, can somebody tell me what to do?

I already answered in "Ritalin Overdose" thread. Ritalin works similar in brain as Meth. It blocks for a while the D2-receptors in your brain. Those receptors are responsive for dopamine, a substance which is curial for your mental well being. They need after an overdose some time to recover. This time is different from person to person. With me it is in the excess of three days with mild effects up to a week. I know others which recover fully within 24 hours.

As I said: Keep a low profile and wait till its over.

Most important: Don't do it again!

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19 Feb 2009, 7:49 am

Fuzzy wrote:

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Staying up for 3 days will make you a little crazy. Dont do it.

And will lead to hallucinations, some can be very frightening, but even seeing colourful pattern jumping on white paper is no real fun.

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19 Feb 2009, 8:24 am

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kattoo13 wrote:

wow..this post just made me grateful that i never filled the ritalin prescription for my 9 year old. i threw it in the trash instead.

WOW, you sound like my mother! She did the SAME thing! I met a LOT of people that were put on ritalin and seemed to be more like poor robots than thinking humans. I hear some LUCKY people with ritalin, and wonder where my life would have been if she filled that. OTHER times, I remember those people that were UNLUCKY, and am thankful that she did what you did!

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19 Feb 2009, 8:44 am

Dussel wrote:

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Thanks, that's given me some hope

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19 Feb 2009, 10:36 am

im curently on ritatlin but looking for other options i never had anything else side effects from it other then dizzyness ,and feeling sleepy

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19 Feb 2009, 4:11 pm

I hear you, buddy. I was diagnosed with AD/HD at six before I was officaly diagnosed with AS. I did not want to take anything for it because I felt I did not need it. Everybody kept trying to tell me how much better it would make me feel. I did not feel bad at all. I kept saying I did not want to but was forced to anyway. It gave me this hand tic/toe tick which is still here today and has never gone away. I think I received some brain damage from it.

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19 Feb 2009, 10:17 pm

Just got a prescription for it today. Was on it before, about 10 years ago and all I really remember saying about it was it helped, then they whacked me out into a freaking zombie with the Bipolar meds and I had to stop them all. They don't look favorably on that when BP's do that. Long story but in a nut shell, various labels or DX's can overlap each other. I've got my fingers crossed, if it works the way I hope, this will be a big step forwards.

I'm so damn leery when they give this stuff to kids, any of it, that can't explain what is going on well. It's hard for an adult at times. I mean street drugs are like BAM in your face and this stuff is powerful and not so in your face.

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