Ritalin gave me horrible symptoms. It made my whole body feel bad and didn’t work. I’ve been on adderall since November and I just don’t know if it’s actually helping. My focus is still shit. I can’t finish one task because I get easily bored and want to do or think about something else. I will try to do something important but then I hyper focus on something completely different. Something like “oh I’ll just do a quick Google search of something so I don’t forget later.” 1 hr later and I forgot whatever the hell the important task was that I was doing in the first place. Like I just needed the dopamine hit of distracting myself with something I’m actually interested in. I want to not cave into that craving but it’s so hard.

Meanwhile this is accelerating my anxiety because I feel like I can’t accomplish anything and that contributes to my stress. I’m taking Busiprone for anxiety which I started in December. Honestly, I’m not sure if that is helping either.

Or perhaps if I had ADHD meds that actually help in the first place, I would have a little bit less anxiety?

I’m just not sure if I need to ask my doctor for different adhd meds or anxiety meds or both