3 Ways Adderall Can Actually Limit Your Productivity, As Told By A Professor
You may think employing Adderall will help you focus in class or knock out a newspaper with lightning speed, but did you know that there is a very dark side to Adderall?
Theres also a dark side to Adderalls rapid and time-released cousins, like: Vyvanse, Ritalin, amphetamine salts, etc.
We should really all take another look at the side effects of the amphetaminefamily before popping another pill. If youre anything like me, you skipped right past the warning label and hurled back your prescription of Adderall. Or perhaps you use someone elses prescription( that warrants a misdemeanour these days ).
Some known side effects of Adderall, only to name a few, include rapid weight loss, loss in sex ability/ desire, sleep disorder, nervousnes, uncontrolled vocal outbursts, changes in brain structure, various heart problems, etc.
Based on what we know about Adderall, or the generic amphetamine salts, its honestly mind-boggling that pharmaceutical companies still manufacture this stuff.
Briefly now, I will share my own personal health problems suffered as a result of ingesting my prescription of Adderall. Ill also describe two of the primary styles, as a prof, Ive ensure Adderall negatively affect students in the classroom.
My Story
My story begins shortly after senior year of high school, when I was first prescribed Adderall. As a student with ADHD, I didnt think twice about taking the narcotic nor did I concern myself too much with the warning label on the side of my prescription. All my doctor had to tell me was that Id be able to sit still for more than five minutes and I was hooked.
I experienced euphoric feelings, founded a fraternity in my dormitory room, graduated college in three years, landed a kick-ass job, and even got accepted into a PhD program, all while taking Adderall. Yes, on more than one occasion I felt like Bradley Cooper in Limitless.
So, whats the catch? For me, all of this success was accompanied by socially debilitating nervousnes, extreme weight loss, migraines, trouble sleeping, severe heart palpitations and suffering relationships.
I basically turned into an insensitive ogre. I became a taskmaster with bad headaches and clenching chest pains, barking at my loving family and friends for reasons unbeknownst to me at the time.
After my success with Adderall, I believed I couldnt live without it, even when loved ones began to point out the nasty side effects the narcotic was having on me.
It was only in grad school that I discovered Adderall was actually doing me more harm than good. The biggest thing Adderall robbed me of was my own sense of accomplishment and worthiness. For the longest period, I believed I was only successful because I was prescribed a miraculous pill, but I was wrong.
When I eventually kicked the pill, it wasnt only my relationships, my chest pain, my heart problems, my headaches and my sleep that improved. My academic research improved dramatically, too.
Although it felt like all of my success came from a pill, the reality was that Adderall was actually slackening me down.
Adderall can definitely slow students down, and as a prof, Ive seen this happen in three styles 😛 TAGEND
1. Anxious and racing guess from Adderall often hinders students from doing their best work.
Adderalls stimulation of the central nervous system is not without some pitfalls, nervousnes represent one of them. While some users of the narcotic may feel nervousnes in the short term, others experience with Adderall changes so slowly over the months or years that he or she may likely become more anxious without personally knowing it. Often day, it takes a loved one stepping in for a user to become aware.
Many students, especially a few hours into taking their Adderall, suffer from nervousnes related to ingesting the narcotic. This anxiety is often quite counterproductive to the undertaking which the narcotic was taken to complete.
To be clear, I have had students do poorly on in-class evaluations due to a nervousness that is only apparent on days they have taken their medicine.
Some users of Adderall will abuse the narcotic, staying up one to two days on end in order to finish big projects. These students will almost surely experience typical side effects of Adderall, such as nervousnes, the most intensely.
2. The euphoric effects of Adderall distract students from completing their work on time.
Adderall often causes students to do something wholly other than what they intentionally ingested the narcotic to focus on. This creates a problem for many students who take the narcotic during crunch time in order to complete a particular task.
For example, about an hour after taking Adderall, I would frequently find myself calling friends that I hadnt talked to in a while or mapping out my next big escapade, rather than reading 150 pages of a book the night before class.
Adderall attains everything seem a bit more exciting , not just the run that you are supposed to complete. For this reason, it is quite likely that the euphoria caused by Adderall can distract one from doing his or her work on time.
Instead of completing relevant chores in a timely manner, many students generate new tasks for themselves upon taking Adderall. Essentially, users often choose to do something different than their work due to the excitement that they feel while the drug is setting in.
3. Employing Adderall often creates a dependency.
Naturally, a drug that offer such academic staman, causing students to feel alerting and even euphoric for hours on end, can be very addicting.
I have ensure an uncountable number of students develop learned dependencies on this substance. Students who develop a dependency will often refuse to do any coursework until they have refilled their prescription or bummed a pill off of a friend.
I once had a student tell me that she cannot even do her laundry without taking Adderall anymore, let alone think about writing a five-page paper.
As a prof, it is very sad to see so many of the teens and young adults that I teach dependent upon Adderall. Ive already said that the biggest thing Adderall robbed me of was my own sense of accomplishment and worthiness. I think this is the case for many other students, too.
To summarize, I am highly skeptical of the amphetamine family, in part because I experienced some really bad side effect and also because my work got better after I discontinue taking Adderall.
I think we ought to consider amphetamine-free therapy for ADD and ADHD. Its likely that our overall health could increase by choosing this path.
I write this piece as simply one more warning label to read in case you missed the discreet one on the side of your bottle. Who reads those, anyway?
3 Ways Adderall Can Actually Limit Your Productivity, As Told By A Professor
3 Ways Adderall Can Actually Limit Your Productivity, As Told By A Professor
3 Ways Adderall Can Actually Limit Your Productivity, As Told By A Professor
3 Ways Adderall Can Actually Limit Your Productivity, As Told By A Professor
3 Ways Adderall Can Actually Limit Your Productivity, As Told By A Professor