Hello!

I’m 23, recently diagnosed, started medication a little over 4 months ago now.

I started with 10 mg of vyvanse for a month, then increased to 20 mg for a month, now I’ve been on 30 mg for a little over 2 months.

The problem is, I have a heavily additive personality. ‘Casual’ isn’t really in my vocabulary.

I’m really worried I’m going to end up hooked on them, I can’t really get away with not taking them every day because I’m a student and I work full time hours outside of my studies so I don’t really have the means to take it easy and not be able to focus well for a day or two. Also, I’m just super nervous to see how I feel without them.

I’ve been finding myself waking up sometimes really tired or feeling shitty/anxious whatever and my first thoughts are “it’ll be fine when I take my meds”.

I guess I’m just wondering if this is normal, or if it’s sort of a red flag pointing towards a dependence beginning?