Not sure where this post should go, but I think it's important.
(no cliffs, in b4 didn't read lol)
Since there's a lot of high school kids on here (along with college kids), and SAT season is upon us, a lot of you guys might be pressured to take Adderall for study help. Hell yea the stuff works and I regrettably used it myself for SAT Studying (and more than that which I'll get to later), but it's just covering up a bigger problem(s). Work your ass off studying naturally and do as best you can on the SATs.
The first problem with using this stuff for studying is you'll probably end up doing better than you would normally. How is this a problem you might ask? With higher SAT scores you'll be able to get into better schools. Sure this seems awesome, but if you're not good enough to get into a school without drugs, you are going to be completely out of place there. You're not going to be able to compete with the other students in the school who probably got their naturally which in turn is going to give you a lower GPA and basically no internship/job opportunities. You're better off going to a school where you fit in at and can compete with the other students.
The second problem is you're cheating on the most stressful test you'll ever take. If you studied naturally for the SATs and did well, this would be a great confidence booster and will prove to yourself that hard work pays off. You overcame the stress and did well. This quality will help you later on when you get a job. If you have to cheat for this test, you'll have no idea what you are capable of naturally, and when stress comes at work, you'll have no idea if you can handle it.
The third problem is this stuff is very addicting and has a huge risk of dependency. Even kids who are diagonished with ADHD (which is bs to begin with) should not take this stuff. Parents are lazy and don't want to parent their kids who at 5 years old, are obviously going to be hyper and want to do fun stuff. No shit the kids can't shit through the meaningless crap they teach kids in elementary school. These kids want to have fun and explore the world. Parents and Teachers are lazy and think there something wrong with the kids and put them on speed. Yes, Adderall is speed. We are giving speed to 5 year olds. These kids take these drugs their entire life and become dependant on them, so dependant where they can't even read a forum post about adderall. They rely on the drugs, and of course doctors and drug companies love this because they make billions of dollars off "ADHD Medication".
It's not even just for kids who are prescribed them. You'll feel so amazing studying for the SATs on adderall, you'll come back to it again and again. Eventually you're relying on it just to go to class and making drug dealers/ kids with prescriptions rich (the street value of a 30mg adderall pill can be anywhere from 5-8 dollars. Buying it with a prescription is like 15 dollars for 60 pills. Think people)
The fourth problem is, you're cheating. Adderall is basically the steroids of the academia. You're taking a prescription drug to get an unfair advantage. You can swab Adderall with steroids in this post and its basically the same thing. Most people are against steroids in sports, yet they are fine with taking adderall. Absolute hypocrites. It's the exact same thing.
But anyway , I've taken it but I told myself I wouldn't use it again, as I felt it was cheating and I felt guilty about it. My major in college is Accounting/Business. Unlike most people who just do it for money (more on this later), I actually love these subjects. I studied them on my own since I was 13. This is really all the interested me in school. Unfortunately, to graduate college you also need classes in other subjects. Mainly english/writing/literature classes and probably a science class. Well, I hate these classes. (Un)Fortunately, I knew something that could help me get good grades in these classes. My old friend benny (Adderall). For something I was only going to use for the SATs, now I find myself taking this to write papers, labs, and studying. I knew what I was doing was wrong but I didn't care. It helped me get through it. I was so amazed by how well I did in these classes, I figured I might as well take it for accounting and business classes, the same classes that I was already interested in and didn't "need" drugs to do well in. After a semester, I found myself taking Adderall for every big paper/test I had no matter the class. And hell yeah I got good grades.
Luckily for me, I was able to find a friend with a prescription but really doesn't take the drugs so he sold them to me at a good price. The sad part is I probably would have bought them on the streets and paid a ridiculous amount without the friend. That's how much I depended on this stuff.
Last semester I said enough is enough and I stopped taking it. I knew I couldn't depend on this stuff because when i graduate, this won't be available to me when I had a job. Plus even if it was, drug testing makes it very hard to take this stuff. My grades suffered. Accounting and Business classes were a bore to me and I couldn't focus in them. Adderall made topics I used to love boring when I wasn't on Adderall. I ended up being so nervous about getting bad grades, I bitched out and took Adderall for my finals. Again, I knew it was wrong and that it was only hurting me in the long run but I didn't care. I did well on the finals, but this whole taking them again made me really depressed because I felt worthless without the drugs. This depression is the main reason I stopped training and re-focused my priorities (along with the other problem I talked about, but this adderall problem was the biggest. I was just too embarrassed to talk about it).
This current semester I've been great. I am able to focus in all of my classes, but tomorrow I have a big Statistics test. So of course, I went back to my old friend, and as I type this I am on Adderall (thats why this post is so long) This is going to be my last time. I asked my friend to cut me off and he is going to. I asked my other friends to report me if I ever take it again, and even though they are my friends, they will report me because they know how important it is to me. I've been fine all semester with out and I plan on being fine my whole life without it so don't worry about me.
To summarize, do not take the performance enhancing drug Adderall (or ritalin or any other amphetamine). The only way you'll learn how to work hard is if you have to work hard to get what you want. There is no shortcut. If your major in college bores you, then switch majors. Don't pick a major because you think it makes a lot of money. The people who do that are never successful, as they are competing against people who actually love it. The most successful people are successful because their job is their passion. They don't do it with the sole purpose of making money, regardless of what Lil Wayne tells you. No drug in the world can produce the high you get when you accomplish something you worked hard for. Taking performance enhancing drugs is just covering up the problem of lack of work ethic (or the need for a shortcut), and eventually this will be exposed. This applies to not only Adderall, but steroids, hgh, anaconda, flying in four, etc.
