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All I am trying to say is, demonizing simulants is what made this nightmare worse, along with all of the assholes who ruined it for everybody else. I don't treat stimulate vs non as any different. They are both medications, that is all. Those of us with it get tired of being asked to "try something different", like it is that easy. This medication saves my life. If you are on a medication that works well for you, why do you need to switch meds? If your meds are not working for you, then yeah, of course you should try something different, that is a no brainer.
Let me put it this way. I am terrified. If I don't have my meds or the new ones create new problems, it is a matter of me losing my job, hurting myself, being unable to drive, or going into another phase of severe depression or mania. The thought of experimenting, when I shouldn't have to, makes me sick to my stomach.
I did not mean to demonize stimulants if that's what it sounded like. If I didn't say that if Adderall works for you, keep taking it, I should have. I disagreed with you on the addictive part because some people do end up abusing it and that is a risk for some people, especially if they already have addicts in their family, giving them a genetic predisposition to end up addicts themselves.
But I did not intend to make it sound like that means no one should take it. Mainly I was trying to talk about the shortage and that there are other options which there won't be shortages for because they are not scheduled and you can't get addicted to them and they might work for some people if their doctors agree. If that wasn't clear, I apologize.
The reason you're getting pushback is because people diagnosed with ADHD who take a prescribed dose of stimulant medication are not capable of addiction to stimulant medication.
And the reason that this language is harmful is because my doctor had to spend two years convincing me to please, just try the medication, because my mother is a drug addict and a gambling addict and I refused to try anything that might be at all addictive.
That set my treatment back. I had accepted that I had ADHD but refused extremely valuable medication because of the stigma of precisely what you're underlining. You seem like you have good intentions so the best distinction, when talking about addiction with regards to these meds, has nothing to do with predisposition to genetic addiction and everything to do with underscoring the difference between talking to your doctor and actually determining if you have ADHD. An example;
If you're worried about the shortage, and you're currently prescribed stimulant medication, please be aware that there are non-stimulant medications that may work for you.
...and one of the reasons people are so downvote happy over that is because you're right. It's a crapshoot. The ritalin side of stimulant medication doesn't work for me and neither do nonstimulant medications. It's either the adderall family or nothing. And it's terrifying, because without that medication I can't function at all. I was trying to find an alternative for a few months and in those few months I was demoted at work, I left my long-term relationship, and about a billion other things went wrong because I couldn't focus.
It's scary out here. People are afraid. It shouldn't be this way.
Not just that it's a crapshoot, if you are taking other medications some meds are not possible because of potential drug interactions.