im not sure if this is the right place so meh..


I’ve looked on the internet a bit and I couldn’t find anything about my problem so I thought I would post. Basically I’ve been on prescription Ritalin for about a year now, and I’m starting to loose interest in everything that’s important to me. People say that Ritalin is like a massive dose of speed, I’m not sure how accurate this is but when I take it, it feels like I’m suddenly awake, it makes me feel amazing. Without the pills I hardly function, I feel out of it and asleep. The thing about it is that, everything that was incredibly important to me does not matter anymore, and I’m just left with this almost numb desire to be productive. My favorite band in the world was slayer but I simply forgot to buy concert tickets and I don’t really mind that I forgot. Anyone who knows me would be expecting me to be killing myself over something like that. TV and music is a nonevent, I’m distant from all my friends and my social life and nothing effects me like it used to. I cant bring myself to be excited about anything, and there is no intensity. Nothing that used to give me adrenalin rushes does anymore. I feel fake, and that kind of of scares me. Im going to drop the pills when I Finnish school in a few months, if I can manage too but I really just want to know if there is a way of avoiding this, if im the only one, if it really is the pills.. etc.

Sorry about the masses of text.

:heart: Sarah

I've never herd of this with ritalin but I have with anti-depressants. Have you told your doctor about it? If you decide to stop taking them make sure you talk to you doctor first. Its not good to just quit something that your bodys been depending on. It would totally suck to feel that way I hope your doctor can help you get your life/true feeling back.

I suggest the same as death_cutie- talk to the person who prescribed it to you and they could put you on some thing else xx

I totally agree. That drug can be serious to someone like you. I suggest fully that you see the person who perscribed it to you and tell them what you're feeling. They will most likely take you off of it and find something else that won't have such a big effect on you.

hey its me again..

i know this is going to sound stupid but i really dont want off the pills. Ive always felt like school has been harder for me than others, i never remember anything although im alrite at learning the stuff. With the pills i feel like im finally closer to the other girls. I dont struggle as much with the pills. Im also usually very emotionally unstable, but when im on the pills i dont really care enough for that. i dont want to be fake, and i dont want to lose my friends, but i dont want to go back. i know im addicted .. well im guessing that i am. the thing about me not caring is that i dont really care im fake, just something tells me its a bad thing.

how does one really know what consistutes fake anyway.. cause i guess its still me in there too. its hard to know.. its like being "cool" how does on define what cool is... how does one define "real".

Sarah

Well if you asked to be put on other pills that can sort out the emotional unstableness, which don't make you dependent? I'm sure there's more than one kind

lol did you talk your doctor?

yeh i did and he put me on shorter lasting pills but they dont seem to work as well.. so eventually we settled on a combination. its alrite, and i think im sorta finding myself again. it might not have been the pills, it might have just been me forgetting who i am fo a bit. im not quite sure.