I was on ritalin for a month or two before moving to atteral and I found it helped a lot (though atteral works a whole lot better for me). I did feel my mood elevate some but nothing too bad. I've read and my pdoc has told me that we need to closely monitor it because it can cause a manic episode (which I'm prone to over depression already).

It took some adjusting but I've seemed to level out on a reasonable, I can handle hypomania. With the help of my pdoc I decided I'd much rather be productive at work and a little hypo then completely stable and unable to perform at my job. May not be the best of ways to approach it but it works for me and as long as we stay on top of it and we catch it before it gets really bad it's helped a lot.