Please, if you feel free, include the stim, dose/dosage, and how long you'd been on it, etc.

I think it's helpful for others to see things like this because maybe they can connect with what you're saying on seeing the post e.g. "Wow! That's me. Maybe I need to finally acknowledge I'm addicted (or dependent) and seek help".

I was taking around 210-280 mg of Vyvanse a day. I wasn't sleeping, and eventually entered long-term psychosis. I thought everyone was out to get me. I had created a story in my head that I'd committed some crime, and that special agents were out to get me. It was the scariest time of my entire life. I thought I was going to die every day. I kept trying to prove to people (especially the "secret agents" watching me everywhere I went) that I hadn't committed this "crime". Dude, the story my mind had conjured up felt so real. Imagine you're in a dream. It's vivid and complex, only you're awake, walking about totally sleep deprived, and you want to snap out of it, but you can't. Why? Addiction. Why sleep when you can stim even more?

It's a long process out of both psychosis and addiction. There are many ups and downs. You fall, but you get back up again. You throw off the shame. Why? Because you've decided to follow a new path. But the "high" you started to hate, comes back to seduce you. It's in those moments that you need friends around you, and to say no. Again, if you fall, you just get back up.

I have realized that addiction is something deep rooted in the soul. Or rather, it's an attempt to fill the void, ease the stress of life, find some purpose or even escape.

Well, that's some of my story. Share away.