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@kistaro Aww, that makes me so happy to hear your response to mine! Anti-psychotics have considerably improved my quality-of-life in every single way since I started taking them all those years ago. To be honest, I used to be a real asshole without them thanks to my Borderline Personality Disorder, when it started becoming active/present at that point of my life. I don't ever want to be that kind of person again, especially for the sake of my friends. But don't get me wrong, these very powerful drugs do have their downsides.

Some of the downsides include high amounts of fatigue (although you do develop a tolerance over time as I have), unable to get a stiffy as easily (or even ejaculate sometimes), and the worst one, in my opinion, is diabetes. Almost everyone who's on a high dose of these drugs (like I am) will almost certainly get #diabetes at one point in their life, and after a few years of being on them, I now have to take #insulin twice-daily. My #pancreas is all but dead :/

This is due to the immense cravings for fatty and sugary foods that anti-psychotics give you, sort'a like the #munchies that you get with weed, I suppose. But it's active 24/7 instead and you even wake up at night in the middle of sleeping, wanting this food. A particular positive of this class of drugs though is that they also treat #chronic #pain quite well which I also have, due to my #rheumatoid #arthritis and #spondyloarthritis, which are both extremely painful, autoimmune conditions.

I'm very sorry to hear that you have generalized anxiety disorder yourself :( It's a terrible condition that I wouldn't wish upon anybody. If I may ask, do you currently work? Or are you on social benefits instead? I'm on the latter myself due to all the health conditions I possess. But regarding the Adderall, I actually heard that it calms some people down weirdly enough.

Thank you for the suggestions for my partner! He does drink coffee regularly although I'm not sure how much, to be exact. I think he's pretty happy the way he is, really. His employer is extremely forgiving and understanding of his symptoms and all of his friends are understanding too ^,==,^. But it's good that you're seeing a psychiatrist yourself, they've helped me so much in the past with getting my own life together! I've had mixed success with psychologists though and despite wanting to see one now, everyone locally is booked out by a year or more due to COVID-19 :/

My local psychiatrist is a really awesome person, he doesn't charge me at all for his services and instead just charges it to the government. I don't know of any other psychiatrist in Australia who does that XD

Adderall is a specific isomer of methamphetamine, I think? Different from the stuff you find in the street. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's the case. Anyway, I'm sorry for the super long post ^ ^;