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Old Jul 07, 2011, 11:17 PM
Jiys Jiys is offline
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Originally Posted by cmlwtcos View Post
I regularly take Concerta for my ADHD and I get that too. I don't eat, I don't want to do anything except watch television shows by myself, I don't want to talk to anyone, and I don't even want to listen to music. I feel an unsettling level of uncertainty, apathy, and self loathing all at once. I'm depressed as it is but I know it's worse when I take it.

I mainly wanted to let you know that your brother is not alone in these feelings. As for the dealing with it, I haven't found any way to properly deal with it.
This is how I feel too. They have me on 108 mg. The main thing with concerta that bothers me the most is the loss of appetite. I literally can't stand food when I take concerta, it's like I can't even taste anything at all, but my mind feels so free. It's an amazing feeling when you can actually think about things and take them in instead of losing it as soon as you hear it. When I take it I'm very attentive, but very antisocial as well. I don't know why but it's just like you don't want to be bothered. It makes me feel even more depressed and sad than I am reguraly am as well. I don't know if this will help at all, but Last year I was tired of how it made me feel so I started taking less and less until I didn't take any at all. A few months later I decided to take my medicine again for a day because I had a very important test to take at school. Bad idea. It made me very.. I don't know how to explain it, I guess it was a kind of high. I did well on the test and everything but I was completely out of it :\ it took me a fair amount of time to understand what people were saying to me; for me to take in what they were saying. I remember sitting in one of my classes, and I was freezing cold. I put my hand on my friends face beside me (yes I know this was weird x) and he noticed it, too, even though it was a very hot day. This lasted for another thirty minutes or so then I was feeling back to my self.
Sorry for the lengthy post and if it's sortta scattered I'm very tired haha