I stand in solidarity with this post. We must RETVRN to dumbphones

I have this issue with my eyes where I get random blind spots that develop and last for like a few minutes to an hour and no doctors have been able to tell me what it is.

By your description I’d say those are auras. It’s what you get before a migraine. Like you, the doctor didn’t know what it was. In fact, my sister and his friend are doctors and didn’t recognize it (though they knew about the phenomenon). I only know because a friend is epileptic and knew about it.

To be clear, I haven’t had any migraines ever and this is something that I get like once a year (I also don’t consume caffeine)

fuck phones and how capital has been taking technology away from our hands.

Phones are very bad and continually get worse. The last phone I actually liked was oddly a nokia lumia 930. The hardware was brilliant still haven’t found anything close to that and windows phone was good. The lack of apps was irrelevant because most apps are shovelware so the argument is always felt stupid, look at google play its filled to the brim with garbage you can’t actually find anything useful. Plus at the time windows phone has Here maps which let you download maps to use offline which for me was a killer feature since i travelled a lot. It was also a really nice app. There was also a well maintained youtube app called mytube which let you do everything yt premium does now and more but free, rarely ever broke like 10 years ago.

It was the last time i ever enjoyed using a phone now they only exist to frustrate me.

Atomoxetine is pretty rough with regards to side effects, going by anecdotal reports. They tend to start strong and generally they ease off until you increase your dose but for many people it’s untenable. For others atomoxetine is a bit of a miracle drug and some people swear by it.

Guanfacine is the other main non-stimulant medication for ADHD, aside from bupropion, and it’s reasonably well tolerated although it’s not hugely effective for a lot of people. I’ve heard anecdotal reports that in adults a very high dose (think 6mg-8mg) can hit the mark.

Clonidine also deserves an honourable mention here although it works on the level of behavioural and emotional inhibition rather than on motivation and reward pathways, so if executive dysfunction or lack of motivation is something you’re struggling with then clonidine probably isn’t going to help, with a disclaimer that if you’re using a lot of mental effort to consciously engage in behavioural inhibition or you’re doing the same with emotional lability then clonidine might be able to help manage this so it can improve executive dysfunction in a secondary way. Works a treat for my insomnia and PTSD-related stuff like trauma nightmares, and also it’s really effective at managing rejection sensitive dysphoria in my experience. (Guanfacine should also work well in this respect but I can’t speak to it because I’ve only ever taken guanfacine with clonidine and there’s a lot of overlap in how they work and so it was too difficult for me to determine if guanfacine was also having this effect.)

All of the above are not stimulants in the classic sense and none have the potential for addiction or abuse.

For stimulants that are closer to the classic ones that have no potential for addiction there is modafinil, which has a risk of abuse but mostly for occupational purposes (lol) but not for recreational purposes, and which is worthwhile considering if they aren’t open to prescribing you with methylphenidate or amphetamines and there is also one that is a bit of a hidden gem as far as I’m concerned, although it has a pretty narrow evidence base, and that’s amantadine - this has no addiction or abuse potential

I relate to this so hard. Phone technology is garbage, and it’s unfortunate we have to deal with this.

Internet wherever I want is cool though, and all of the non-phone hot-spotting stuff is actually nightmarish. With things like Signal (it has a desktop app!) I’ve mostly managed to cut SMS and phone calls out of my life, so it mostly just does TOTP 2FA, hotspots, and occasionally route planning.

I stand with you against the verengan Ha’DIbaH at your PSP.

Just get a landline and an answering machine. Maybe a fax machine, too, if you need to receive documents. I wish for the release from phone but my living situation is unstable so I don’t want to put in the time to set up a landline.

Ooh I wanna drug advice post too.

The NRI action of the atomexatine is absolutely causing the high blood pressure. You should stop taking it and switch to something dopinamergic.

Lisdexamphetamine is the front line treatment for a reason and any competent psychiatrist should understand unmedicated ADHD always leads to substance abuse. It raises blood pressure like most stimulants, but the ratio of mental to physical stimulation is the best you can get. But if they really won’t give it to you what you want is Bromantane.

Everything I mention after this can be ordered online with no prescription.

Bromantane is an old Soviet drug they used to treat “neurasthenia”, an umbrella mental health term they used. It’s a stimulant but a super unique one with a poorly understood mechanism. It has a long history of use so we know it’s very very safe. It’s a very effective medication for some people with ADHD, you’ll see how popular it is on that subreddit. Not everyone likes it of course.

It does not work acutely. I needed to dose like 20 times before noticing anything. Then I started noticing more motivation, less weird emotional reactivity and disgust to basic tasks, a far more regular circadian rhythm and instantly waking up in the morning, and increased physical endurance.

It’s not in your face like an amphetamine pill but it pushes. Highly recommend. Oral bioavailability is very poor so you either need to dose sublingually or with a nasal spray, and both of those are very skill based techniques. A lot of people fail to every actually dose themselves then they say the drug doesn’t work.

Other drugs I like to manage ADHD with are: the nicotine analogue tropisetron (also very popular on that subreddit, makes being alive feel like a RPG, I always get a lot of work done but living without emotions gets old. Music appreciation is greatly enhanced so it’s a good drug drug), the DRI Sabroxy (like a lite methylphenidate but with far less norepinephrine action, will raise still blood pressure a little, it worked very very well for me for six months then lost a lot of effectiveness), the caffeine analogue paraxanthine (less pushy mental stimulation than caffeine but with far less restlesslessness in the legs). Modafinil is supposed to be good too but I haven’t tried it yet.

The amino acid ALCAR is another thing that acts like a stimulant after you take if for a month. It’s subjectively disliked more often though. I took ALCAR for a while but didn’t like it and stopped. Also it makes you smell weird.

And finally you can buy this cocktail of grey market phenethylamines as an Adderall replacement, but that would definitely give you a heart attack eventually.

Can you ask them to give you bupropion (Wellbutrin)? It is a stimulant but a very weak one so they might let you have it. With atomoxetine I slept only for 3 hours a day which sucks because it was pretty good for OCD as well