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I feel like I understand my brain and I am pretty content with its pros and cons. I feel I can identify whether adhd/autism influences certain decisions I make, which has led to lifestyle changes to focus life on my one special interest
I already feel quite balanced in the chaos. My mental health is in the best state it's ever been, but meds have been recommended and I am worried.
Is adhd being lowered by meds always a better option? Is it ever a concern for adhd meds to make decision making unbalanced?
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Repetitive actions and hyper obsession is an A-OK price to pay for reduced social anxiety and being able to actually finish a career-critical exam without utterly dissociating.
So really it comes down to your symptoms values and tasks.
Btw.
I say this a lot but don't be like me and actually proactively ask to be switched to something else if the current medication isn't working out.
Also look into supplements that increase available serotonin. Not being tweaky is a good basis for improved symptoms.
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To keep it short and quotable: If you keep your serotonin levels high you're less prone to overstimulation.
This is sometimes used to give people with minor to medium psychotic symptoms (regardless of whether they have depression or not) and ADHD relief without triggering mania. You add an SSRI to your stimulant and it keeps things from getting out of hand.
It can also be done to treat bipolar without just killing everything in more recent treatment approaches; You give a stimulant (often Wellbutrin) and a very low dose of SSRI and the effect meets somewhere in the middle. Much less anhedonic than just slopping on an antipsychotic. Not always applicable but where it works it is pretty beautiful especially for creatives.
In short: It smooths out the edges.