You should find alternate means for treating your depression. Adderall wont always have its original effect, it takes a while to build a tolerance to it but when you do it is exponential in its growth.

Just think about it, if your on adderal right now it wont be to hard lol. You do not want to become dependant upon a drug to carry out any task.

Go through this forum and search for adderall and you will have your answer .

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Just wondering....Any head injury and was that checked out when you had the accident?

Yeah, i'm 17 and just graduated highschool, but I been takin adderall ( i'm suposedly add and have it prescribed) since before I was 14 (i still take it, now just less of it), and the same caca happened to me. I have like 20 plus poems. I wish I could show them but I don't feel like it right now. They explain everything, and I hate saying this, but they're mostly from the adderall. Ok, so I quit smoking when I was abt 15, a few months went by and I was fine, I started takin my adderall reguarly (daily) and *bam!* I started medical answer smoking again... Except it gradually became something to keep my bored, "must be moving all day", adderall hands occupied (plus the adderall covers up the normal fix or buzz nicotine gives you, so it takes way more ciggs to get the full regular effect while on adderall or whatever). Oh and let me tell you something... Boys! I use to think my relationships without adderall were a little off beat.. No way, the longer and the more adderall I took the weirder my relaionships got... I wanted to shoot myself sometimes because i'd be this crazy person one day and the next i'd be sane jane and then i'd have to apologize for my pill use! I hate being like that towards any of my friends. I think it's totally uncalled for because they are artifical chemical induced mood swings, not even my natural moods! Oh ok, and another thing... Alcohol... Yeah, I usually donot crave alcohol (except when i'm sleep deprived and angry!) when i'm on adderall, but when I do drink it (while on adderall) I can drink mine, yours, and betsy's 12 packs in less than 1-2 hours and still donot feel the full effects [of the beer]... Probly dangerous... Anyways, oh yeah ..I never thought that I would be a cutter... No I was always this perky cheerleader girl from alabama.. Well I know cutting is a self issue that ppl need to get undercontrol and counseling etc... And I have natural depressive episodes but the adderall made it so much worse sometimes, that I even became suicidal... I dont really remember cutting myself but I can see the deep scars on my arms, legs, ankles, wrist, hands and I just get this punched-gut feeling. Yuck, that's all I have to say for now good bye have a nice day ya'll !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're message stood out to me and even though I haven't posted here before I feel strongly that you or someone reading this in a similar situation needs to read these words. Doesn't sound like your getting the best treatment. You have a long life ahead of you with lots of good stuff still to come. I've had my probs too, but it really makes me sad to hear someone your age in this place. I suffer from depression due to chronic pain (lower back) and was just looking about here wondering if there might be a better antidepressant; I currently take zoloft. Doesn't sound like adderall is the answer for either of us! For now please get away from the drugs, excessive drinking and cutting; it isn't going to be easier to quit later and right now you have time to start over and let the good things come to you. You probably can't even imagine it now, but a day will come when you've completed your education, found a career you like, married someone wonderful and want to have a baby. You'll need a healthy body and mind to do this so start making that happen. When you look into that sweet baby's eyes and experience love like you've never known you'll be so glad you did ... natural highs are the only ones that really keep. I know it's been a while since you've posted and I hope at least some of your problems have turned themselves around, I hope you get this and we would love to hear your poems. I pray that God blesses your life right now, that you've let him in your heart and that he has shown you that light that can be your future. The past is exactly that, leave it there, go forward and conquer. Becky

I have been taking 20 mg. of Adderall for a month now and feel no effects at all. It is as if I have taken nothing at all. Has anyone hear of such a thing?