INTP Aspies & psychotropic medication

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It sounds like you found the perfect INTP job.

How would you say your medication affects your capacity to do your job?

Personally Im not a huge fan of medication especially for Aspies but I know it does help some people.
Im INTP. Ive never really taken anything. In terms of anxiety tho, my mom shoved some Xanax down my throat once for a few days so Id chill out. NEVER AGAIN. Not sure if youd react similarly, but I hated it. Im perfectly happy to go drug free.

Hummm! It sounds like we have something in common. I like collecting old books also. I use to visit old book stores when I was a teenager. I love the smell of old books. I especially liked the rare book collection.

When I was a young adult I started to buy old books. But shortly after I started the price of old books soared and I could no longer afford the hobby. The oldest book in my collection is 1555.

Google worked with major libraries to digitize rare books. There is a vast collection of digitizes rare books available at Advanced Book Search

I took Zoloft for several years to keep the depression at bay, it gave me boundless energy (and even led to some extroversion) but over time it wore my actual feelings away, made it hard to keep my impulses at bay, and way harder to sleep. I'm a pretty adventurous guy when it comes to hallucinogenic / mind altering drugs, but I wouldn't get back on any prescription meds, its better to be an introvert the slow and painful way.

Yes it is a pretty good match for my skills. The medication seems to help me with my job as well as life generally - without it I tend to lose the ability to think logically and also lose reliable access to my brain's filing cabinet. Whilst I can of course write stuff down, make lists and reminders etc, there is no substitute for having all of the necessary ideas in the brain's "RAM" so that connections can be made and allowing new ideas for ways forward. Without the medication my memory is very much like Swiss cheese - and there are no clues as to what should be in the holes. Actually it's still like Swiss cheese *on* medication, but the holes are smaller and less numerous

I've tried a whole range of substances... from ritalin, dextroamphetamine & methylone to ketamine, oxycodon & LSD.

While some of these substances are suitable for occasional usage, each of these substances comes with their own negative traits, however, which makes them ill suited for daily (or even weekly) usage.



I totally relate



1555? Wow!

Books older than 1850 do indeed tend to be very expensive. I own but a few shelves of books from that period, and my oldest books is from the 17th century.

While I do own quite a few books printed after 1950, my focus has always been on books from 1850 - 1950. I very must love that period and many books from that era can still be found at reasonable prices.

It sure helps, though, that I live near my country's main university, and the "special collection" department of the university library sells its doubles every year or so at very reasonable prices. I once bought 400 kg of books from them at 400 Euro, and this includes several 19th century editions.

Currently, I have about 25 to 30 m² of shelf space filled only with books pre-dating 1951, displayed along a single 12m wall



You can find quite some digitized old books on archive.org as well. I sometimes look up stuff there if I need to look something up in a book I don't own.

Browsing digital books just doesn't compare, though, to the joy of sticking your nose in a genuine, physical copy of a 19th century volume.



Reminds me of when I took prescription dextroamphetamine.

My focus, energy and mood all improved initially, but after some time I became increasingly numb & apathic... which didn't feel pleasant at all!



I very much relate.

Overall, I've also had better experiences with illegal substances than with prescription drugs. Unfortunately, many illegal substances are very hard to come by because they are... well... illegal. And most also aren't without eg. the risk of addiction or without being making you unable to engage in normal activities for several hours.



That's... interesting... very interesting.

Thanks for sharing this!

That's a good way to sum it up, numb and apathetic, even bad days are better than that.

Yea, weed is legal in my state, I have to keep myself busy to keep from using it. I'm glad the prohibition is over here, but it's still a vice, and vices have to be managed.

The one substance that worked best for me was Methylone.

That's an empathogenic substance that actually increases my empathy and thus reduces the social deficits associated with my ASD. In my mind I say the exact same thing I would say when sober, but somehow the substance makes it come out much better. I used it for anything from family events to job applications.

Unfortunately, the substance has become illegal pretty much anywhere and I've been unable to find it for years.

A 12 meter wall (almost a 40 foot). Most houses do not have a continuous 40 wall unless you count the basement. Anyways, that is a lot of books.

I transitioned from collecting old books to collecting new leather bound book of old masters. Eventually these leather bound books became too expensive and I had filled up all my shelves of my house and there was no longer any more room, so I switched to collecting 19th century photographs.

My library is 5m x 12m. Our house is about 250m² in total (garage included), with my library being the biggest room in the house.

And yes, I sure do own a lot of books. I'm currently in the process of organizing my books > 1950. I only moved into our house a year ago, and when I did all my books were mixed up.



I know the feeling.

As space is running out in even my 250m² library, I'm currently transitioning both my attention and my funds on Chinese bootleg Lego... for which I plan to put a display table in the middle of my library.

I had to google that one. Can't say I'd take it myself for the same reason I stopped taking Zoloft, still, it's a shame we can't make our own decisions.

Our "leaders" love telling us how "free" we are, yet they increasingly treat us like small children who can't make their own decisions on anything...