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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 503585" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>The "drugs = zombie" debate is more delicate.</p><p></p><p>I take Ritalin - the good, old-fashioned, fast-acting non-generic form.</p><p>It has... ZERO impact on my personality.</p><p>What it does give me - because it is the right medication for ME - is the ability to hold it all together. Thoughts no longer get lost in mid-stream. I can put something down, and go back and find it. I'm definitely safer as a driver, because I am more aware of all of the details around me instead of "zooming in on some detail". I'm less irritated, because I'm wasting less time trying to recover from lost thoughts.</p><p></p><p>Our kids are the same. The medications they are on have not turned them into "something else". (between us, there's 9 or 10 scripts)</p><p>in my opinion - if drugs are affecting personality, then either it's the wrong medication (plus possibly the wrong diagnosis), OR it's a very complex case, where the safety of the person and others can only be achieved by living with side effects, including possibly altering personality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 503585, member: 11791"] The "drugs = zombie" debate is more delicate. I take Ritalin - the good, old-fashioned, fast-acting non-generic form. It has... ZERO impact on my personality. What it does give me - because it is the right medication for ME - is the ability to hold it all together. Thoughts no longer get lost in mid-stream. I can put something down, and go back and find it. I'm definitely safer as a driver, because I am more aware of all of the details around me instead of "zooming in on some detail". I'm less irritated, because I'm wasting less time trying to recover from lost thoughts. Our kids are the same. The medications they are on have not turned them into "something else". (between us, there's 9 or 10 scripts) in my opinion - if drugs are affecting personality, then either it's the wrong medication (plus possibly the wrong diagnosis), OR it's a very complex case, where the safety of the person and others can only be achieved by living with side effects, including possibly altering personality. [/QUOTE]
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