Charmed Justice
Nickle Iron Silicone
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I have made no statements about long-term effects or dependencies without backing up those statements with direct links to WebMD or other medical sites.There is much I do agree with you on.
But when you make statements about long-term effects, dependencies, etc, you are plain wrong.
I hear what you're saying, but the same could be said for any chemical substance. The fact that some people have little to no harmful effects from smoking is not to say that smoking is good for human bodies, or that it should be generally promoted as safe.As I have stated ad nauseum, I have taken 80 mg of Ritalin daily for 15 years. The dosage has never changed and the effect is always the same. I can stop taking it for months at a time with no side effects whatsoever. NONE. No depression, no cramps, no insomnia, nothing except for one thing: the lack of controlling my focus. Ritalin works in the ADD brain WAY different than in the non-ADD brain. Nor am I some superman exempt for these supposed long-term effects.
I'm sorry to hear that, and can't begin to imagine the relief you've found after such a difficult life experience.I am a 50--year old man living a very successful and fufilling life after having discovered ADD and Ritalin in my 30s. Prior to that my life was a living hell...and I tried suicide at age 14. That would not have happened if I had been diagnosed and properly medicated earlier. Nothing you say or any narcissistic doctor can say will ever change the facts of my life.
I was a member of CHADD prior to some of my own experiences. We just don't agree. Which is cool.Your experiences are of mis-diagnosed children. Go to a ADD conference and spend time with those who have been correctly diagnosed and given correct medicine and whose lives have gone from black to white...ask them about the lack of side-effects and the ease of stopping meds at any time......THEN we can talk.