My First Day On Adderall

What a strange day I've had. Today was my first day on a small dose of Adderall, prescribed by a psychiatrist for Adult ADHD. A little while after taking it this morning, I felt a bit light headed and foggy. Yet I had no trouble at all staying on task. It was the first time in my life when I felt like things were normal for me. My head wasn't racing around from thought to thought. I wasn't racing around from task to task. I told my sister that I was going to get out the wheelbarrow, clean up the weeds from the yard and put them in a trach can... and that's exactly what I did! It may seem trivial to some, but for me it was incredibly satisfying.

Normally I would have walked out to the little plastic shed to get the wheelbarrow and decided I should probably check the sprinkler system to leaks and breaks. Then midway through that, I'd decide I needed something from Home Depot. After coming home from there, I'd remember I was supposed to get the wheelbarrow, and feel like a loser for having strayed from that task in the first place. And such are my days.

Now, I did have a fantastically calm and satisfying morning, but I noticed that the effects began to wear off earlier than I was told they would. I took the little blue pill at 11:30 and it's supposed to last 12 hours. My doc said it would be more like 8-10. But I began to get irritable and schizophrenic again around 5PM. I'll have to tell him about that. Also, I did not experience any anxiety or angst while medicated, so I suspect that he'll probably want to increase my dosage a bit from the minimum of 10mg I'm on now.

I was so happy with my Adderall this morning! I had my first experience as a true human being today.

I am clearly back to my old usual self right now. Perhaps tomorrow I'll attempt to write a blog entry while I'm actually under the effects of the drug.

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