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Quitting adderall causing depression
Posted: 02-13-08 16:28pm

Yeah i've been on adderall for about 4 years 30mg xr. Everyday. I quit about a month and a half ago because i thought i was going crazy.

I still think that i'm going crazy. I'm having conversations in my head with people that i know and treating them as if they were real. The conversations used to be with my coworkers but now it turned to my family

Its basically my family going in and pulling out my deepest darkest secrets and exposing them to the world. Its driving me insane i think that im going to the looney bin soon because i don't know what to do. I mean I decided to get off adderall because i just quit smoking and the adderall started to come on real strong a little too strong. So i Quit

Know that im off adderall i think that im going into a serious state of depression. And i Dont Know what to do. Like its getting worse. Everyday it just gets worse and its to the point where im starting to scare myself like I starting to see the meaninglessness of life and asking myself whats the point.

This is not me. Well it is, I remember having thoughts like that years ago but I haven't even thought about it for the longest time. Its back really strong and i dont know how to correct it. I don't know how to live.

I think that is my biggest problem the thought im concentrating on most right know. I don't know how to live. I don't know what im supposed to be doing. I'm on unemployment sitting in my house basically doing nothing. Which gives me a little insight into why i might think that but its more then that. I just see everyting as frivilous and dont see the point in doing things. I'm the type of person whose kinda of been there done that, and i really dont know where to go from here.

If anyone has any experience detoxing from adderall Please give me some advice I really need it
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crob2780

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Joined: 22 Feb 2008
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Posted: 02-22-08 21:42pm

i have been addicted to adderall for over a year now and have detoxed at least 10 times...the only thing i can tell you is to ride out the first week and have your dr. put you on an antidepressant...eating foods that have vitamin c and taking niacin can help detox you faster too...i heard it takes a full year to fully recover from the mental effects of adderall and i believe it...just hang in there and you will eventually be normal again
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