What's your experience with medication for ADHD, DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY?

When I was at the end of HS I was on Vyvanse and zoloft for ADHD and depression.
Today I booked an appointment to go back to Vyvanse and to get Xanax or Valium, my depression subsided significantly since HS, (I'm no longer suicidal) but the anxiety has increased ridiculously.
The reason why I stopped is because I would just tweak on Vyvanse and use the months supply in 2 weeks, I would still not get the shit I need to do done, but I'm thinking that maybe now that I'm more mature it will be better. Xanax or Valium I have no idea how I will react, but the anxiety is really getting to me.

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>ADHD
Everyone's happier on stimmies

>Xanax, Valium
Enjoy your addiction

you won't get xanax or valium, trust me

IMO they can only really treat ADD/ADHD with meds, because stims are a gift from God. The stuff they have for depression, and especially anxiety, is pretty ineffective.
Additionally, the stimulants can induce or worsen anxiety. When you ask for a cure for your anxiety, you're basically asking for a pill that makes you cold to counter-act the pill that makes you hot. It's a no-win scenario for whoever is your unfortunate doctor.
I don't know what to do about anxiety. I guess i get it sometimes in the form of procrastination. Honestly though, I stopped sincerely caring what people think a long time ago. I still care insofar as their opinion tangibly affects my life (like I want my boss to think I'm a hard worker, obv), but I wouldn't accept their judgements as accurate observations nor would I let it affect me emotionally.

When I was on ADHD meds I was 18, now I'm almost 27, I'm thinking that maybe now I will be more responsible with the meds and organize myself around that.
My current job is pretty heavy, it's just dealing with nasty costumers all day (I file very detailed complaint reports and update the database), and there is no way around it. I know that overtime I have to learn to not allow it to affect me, but half of them or more are pretty threatening, things you see on freakout videos, so for the moment being I need something to help me temper this anxiety because I really need this job, I can't just quit.
What medications did you use in the past? How did you feel on them? Do you have ADHD?

I have ADD and depression, the latter possibly being worsened by chronic use of ritalin since I was ~14 (now 24). I still use, but I made sure to keep my dosage the same for all these years and use frequent breaks to keep my tolerance down. Starting about a year ago, I began to take wellbutrin for depression. I was always reluctant to take medication for depression for the aforementioned reasons, but buproprion is more reliable imo because it works by targeting dopamine rather than seratonin. It also is way less likely to cause issues like ED.

If I had to describe how i feel, since I missed that part of your post, I would say I just feel normal, genuinely. I can hyper-fixate on stuff; I can zone into a video game and realize an hour just passed by. I sincerely think I do have ADD, or at least what doctors would diagnose as ADD. Actually I sincerely think ADD/ADHD aren't real and little boys just naturally won't sit still, but oh well.
Good luck with your job. Mine is shitty too right now.

>ED
I'm sorry what is ED?

Epic Dong

Expansive Dong

antidepressants made me fat and thus, sadder that I was

you wont handle it better, and you will never until you break the cycle of addiction and using medication to try to make up for perceived personal defects. And yes, a prescription is a kind of addiction.

The only path is to learn to wrangle yourself. It's like breaking a horse. You might be able to partislly tranquilize a horse with pills and climb up on his back and make him walk a bit, but thats got nothing to do with riding a stallion full speed.

Whats important to realize is that not all people are suited for the typical braindead, anemic "career" that our culture prescribes as the only right way to live. You may be able to cram yourself into some life you hate with the right combination of pills, but you will never like it.

Anxiety is not a tumor, it's not a disease to be cured. It's a message from your btain that you don't like it where you are. It's a message, a burning sign that you need to seek things and places you really like and actually enjoy, no matter how much that differs from what's considered normal. Because what you have right now, no matter how much it's the "right" place to be, your soul rebels against it. You can suppress this feeling but never kill it. So many people, once they have all the things they thought they were supposed to want, realize none of it makes them happy - realize they should have just done what the fuck they wanted the whole time, and everyone else can eat shit. When you truly don't give a fuck what anyone else thinks, there is no such thing as anxiety. It's like spergvana.

I understand some of the things you're saying and you're probably right. But at this moment I'm not in a position to be choosing jobs, jobs are scarce and I have no qualification for the jobs that are available. I just can't quit, in the future I will definitely look for something more stable and more aligned with what is good for me, I'm currently searching for an online course or something I can study on the side to get a better job.

Going on Setraline for my anxiety has made a world of difference. It has literally saved my life. I fixed my depression with therapy and a lot of self reflection. But no matter how hard I tried I could not stop my anxiety. Within 2 months of using Setraline I have a job and can see my friends without worry, something that was never possible from 15-26. It has changed my life. It's different for everyone. I really think my anxiety must be a genetic, biological problem because nothing else fixed it until the meds. A lot of pol shit on meds because of big pharma and doctors' proclivity to overprescribe them. If you have a serious problem and nothing else has worked, they are absolutely worth a try. I think most people don't need them, but some people are just genuinely broken and the meds fix them.

I would bet money that you haven't had serious anxiety or a panic disorder. I couldn't even go on walks with the dogs with my dad, play football with my mates, go shopping, go to the cinema; all things I love and wanted to do. Panic/anxiety disorder in some people is something that 100% cannot be 'forced through'. It causes an exhaustion and breaking down of your body, a tiredness that sits in your bones because the body is not meant to be in fight or flight daily, even hourly sometimes.
I agree that sometimes anxiety is a sign that you are in the worng place and a lot of the modern world rots the soul, but anxiety is not always a consequence of this. Sometimes people are just wired wrong. I loved myself, I loved my life, I pushed through the anxiety for 2 years straight and it NEVER got better. It only changed after meds and therapy.
this overly reductionist 'macho-man' take doesn't help people who's brains are just fucked

well you can play it safe, stay at your shitty gay job forever and die sad, thats also an option

Shifted to experiencing profound anhedonia about 2 years
Went to psychiatrist, tried bupropion, escilatopram - zero effect, only sides
But looks like the root cause of that anhedonia was hookah/nicotine. I didn't smoke for over a month and I feel some tiny bits of emotion returning
I intend to continue not smoking for 3 more months to restore the dopamine function and then try bupropion and escilatopram again

your friends are shit and your dad is shit. you were probably right before. your brain is not broken, it was screaming for you to make a real change in your life and you decided to smother it instead. those things you "liked" but actually hated doing? you dont fucking like them, you just think youre supoosed to like them. "You" is the person that you naturally are, this drug induced stepford shiny happy version of "you" is not a real person. You have killed yourself.

There is nothing wrong with feeling anxious and hating people and never wanting to see anybody. There is literally nothing wrong with that. It's just that faggots will call you weird.

hahahahahah the fucking state of psychology. theyll put you on all kinds of pills but did they even fucking tell you to quit smoking? did they even fucking ask?

they dont even do the most basic shit. do you exercise? is your job shit? do you eat & sleep normally? do you chug caffeine 24/7? ALL of these things are way more inportant to depression than any of the pills. Literally getting a cat is more effective for depression than any medication. The way this shit works is a joke.

>anhedonia
get over yourself

Tell us about your experience, what do you work with? How old are you? What medications did you use and for what?

I don't even know where to start with this absolute tripe. My dad is the best person I've ever met. It's okay not to want to see many people but if you literally have nobody in your life you want to see then you are the problem. Absolute schizoid mate, I really hope you don't believe this unironically. If you do, you genuinely need help. Probably even meds.
>favourite things are metal music, football and hanging out with my dad
>anxiety stops me from doing these things
>take medication, suddenly I can go to concerts again, play in a band, go out with my dad, start playing football and watching it again for the first time since I was 12
>finally feel I can be myself again
>"hurr durr you've killed the real you"
actual retard

i work for myself however i can hustle cash because id rather die than dance for anyones dimes, and im not stupid enough to take brain damage pills because i felt doubke extra sad. grow a pair

>you literally have nobody in your life you want to see then you are the problem. Absolute schizoid mate, I really hope you don't believe this unironically. If you do, you genuinely need help.
literally wrong and unbelievably onions

what the fuck do you think of ascetics, hermits, sages, desert fathers? to you are they wise men, or "schizos"?

the search for real truth called to you, and you smothered it so you could go back to beong a happy tv watching baby. sad.