They don't (or aren't supposed to) change personality types. However ADD drugs have been known to surpress "personality" a common side effect usually described as "zombie."
I have not switched types when changing dosages or when on or off or anything of that sort.
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Thank you for the insightful feedback and personal experience. I know people must be jumping out of their skins to share their drug info online.
What caught my attention is when you said, suppress personality. I agree with that. And what the previous poster said, how they felt less flighty.
Am i assuming that to be correct? Too much dopamine, x neurotransmitter=zombie, the right dose helps the person focus and enhances concentration and mental functioning, alertness... right?
Too much, or too little, well that is no good, pharmacology, right? And the ritalin, versus adderall, depends on the person I am assuming...
I have noticed that drugs do, change, and affect personality, I will go out on a limb and say that not only stimulants, like at first they can make you gitty, then just after a while, they crap out... and have to keep upping the dosage... or adding on SSRI's, or get XR versions, holidays, switch... etc.
I think that other meds like anti-seizure meds, For example the drug Topamax in high doses, has a nick name Dopamax, for its reputation for making you dumb in high doses. It effects the Temporal lobes in the cerebral cortex and effects memory. It impairs global cognitive functioning, impairs memory, can make people more aggressive, likely to blurt things out, and act emotionally liable, road rage personality, fuzzy and incoherent, and not as caring. It can really can affect your personality, changing your brain chemically. Also disease processes, Dementia, Brain damage, hypoglycemia, sleep apnea, night shift work, sleep deprivation, alcohol, Anti-psychotic medications, lithium, bipolar medications, blood pressure meds, vitamin deficiency, chemical poisoning, hidden infections and tumors, drug addiction, and environmental factors and depression, I believe
can affect your personality too...
Any other opinions