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ergoticmandala



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Help me get a ritalin script
#23772354 - 10/26/16 05:15 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm 18, and I would have to get the script by myself as my parents did not want me to be treated for ADD/ADHD although I feel that I have it. I have their insurance though, does that mean that I have to pay full price?
I have taken ritalin a few times from friends and it helps me study/concentrate in school, so what do I have to do to get it prescribed.
Just go to any doctor, a psychiatrist? tell them I can't focus in school, don't mention that i've ever tried anything, just say I am looking for a solution to this problem?
rob a pharmacy, idk
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mircro dose lsd
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: Ringi]
#23772483 - 10/26/16 07:29 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Im sure you can use their insurance, usually what happens at a docs office is between the patient and doctor. On a side note, it may be hard to get a prescription of what you really want, you may have to go a few times and keep switching meds. IMO it would deff be a waste of money, as my insurance only covers part of doc visits. I have a bent up spine and when I was younger I tried getting pain killers, which resulted in a script for something I could buy in walmart, and no pain killers. I gave up, and smoked illegal weed for 8-9 years after that and im a-okay for the most part. Actually glad I did not get the script and get hooked on big-pharma shit.
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: LSDollar]
#23772623 - 10/26/16 08:37 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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mircro dose lsd
i would but its not really cost efficient. and i aint got enough
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mircro dose lsd
i would but its not really cost efficient. and i aint got enough
LSD is what $7-8 for 100-120ug? That's around 6 micro doses if you're trying to minimize intoxicating effects ($1.25 a day, $37.5 a month)
I've never tried daily microdosing and ideally never will, so I can't speak for the efficacy of this concept
Usually a microdose for me is around 50-60ug (where you're clearly intoxicated but its easily managed), with the purpose of practicing an instrument, never more than a dozen times in a month.
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So like I come from a family full of "ADD" And "ADHD" and more than half of us have gotten scripts. We're all a bit absent minded and attention shifty. Taking that shit daily is not a good idea. What is a good idea is learning how to manage it on your own and possibly realizing that college isnt for you. And that's perfectly okay. Me and my brothers are all making good money in our own trades.
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23772789 - 10/26/16 09:50 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Oh but no you're 18 you shouldn't need your parents. Just one of the insurance cards and a cash co-pay
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: CookieCrumbs]
#23772840 - 10/26/16 10:06 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Are you sure you have ADD to the degree that warrants ritalin use?
Ritalin longterm impairs your thinking and ability to experience pleasure, just like chronic meth use.
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: Asante]
#23773003 - 10/26/16 11:19 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Fuck ritalin. If you have add/adhd find an alternative. Shits straight garbage, absolutely hated the 10 years i was forced to take it
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: Soluminia]
#23773026 - 10/26/16 11:29 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Asante i (only) wanna take it for the next six years of college
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and once i get some access to acid or some other good lysergamides like 1P, I will alternate. I just have to finish college for my parents, its more for them than for me.
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ergoticmandala said: Asante i (only) wanna take it for the next six years of college
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ergoticmandala said: and once i get some access to acid or some other good lysergamides like 1P, I will alternate. I just have to finish college for my parents, its more for them than for me.
Whoa dude, chill out a second. That's one of those things they tell everyone not to go to college for. Red flags man.
What do you want to do in college? You're going to be among the dropouts if you have no genuine motivation to complete it.
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I'm gonna tell you now that if you're only doing it for your parents and you have bad attention span then you aren't going to graduate. Or you will with the help of alot of drugs and likely be miserable thru most of it.
If you feel like you absolutely have to enroll in college (or already have) just take the classes that interest you the most or you think will help you the most. Then after a year or 2 convince your parents to let you go to trade school instead. 1 or 2 years vs 6 and all your education will revolve around the trade. None of the extra bullshit that's likely to drive you crazy in college.
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: PatrickKn]
#23773043 - 10/26/16 11:40 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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What do you want to do in college?
psychology.
I will finish college. My parents will be paying for it. Its the best path for me. Not much else to do. Its either I succeed in college and my parents support me, or I go get a job and try to support myself. I know how my bread is buttered.
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Nowadays it's pretty hard to get a prescription for ritalin or adderall, since they've become such popular street drugs, and most doctors are reluctant to prescribe it if you haven't been officially tested for ADHD (usually a long test involving written and oral questions, which you need to fail in order to get the Golden Ticket). A friend of mine hooks me up with adderal XR and IR which he got prescribed after jumping through lots of hoops in order to get diagnosed with ADHD...it was only after he got the official diagnosis that he was able to get a prescription from his doctor
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: crackbaby]
#23773053 - 10/26/16 11:46 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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i'm prepared to fail the test
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: Repertoire89] 1
#23773064 - 10/26/16 11:52 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ergoticmandala said: psychology.
I will finish college. My parents will be paying for it. Its the best path for me. Not much else to do. Its either I succeed in college and my parents support me, or I go get a job and try to support myself. I know how my bread is buttered.
Whatever floats your boat
I just wanted to clarify, when I said this:
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LSD ... never more than a dozen times in a month.
It was in reference to the distant past, I don't recommend taking LSD nearly that often, if you're trying to self-medicate it would be wise to consider how serious the issue you're medicating really is, because frequent tripping can easily fuck with your head. Same for any drug, especially something as strong as speed.
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I also got 90 IRs
Dexamp.
I only use it when I have class and I dislike using it but it helps.
Certain times of the semester I become popular too hardy har har.
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: CookieCrumbs] 2
#23773070 - 10/26/16 11:54 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I actually really wanted to go to college. I love learning. I love learning a little bit of everything and anything. I had to drop out because the pace and the system drove me nuts and triggered the PTSD type bullshit I have from primary school (I struggled really hard as a kid, was bullied alot, ect.)
And the fact I had to drop out for my own mental well being after nearly 7 years just depressed me even more.
Degrees don't even mean all that much anymore. I'm working with quite a few degree holders and I'm making more than some of them. I know there's so much pressure to go to college at your age but trust me there are better ways.
I didn't think I was going to be able to afford college so I got a shit load of business administration oriented certifications (tech and finance mostly) while I was still in high school. That and a tiny bit of job experience (and a bit of truth bending) set me up to be making decent money at an insurance company. People want papers with a name they like, it really doesn't matter all that much how you get them. Social networking and experience can get you farther than alot of degrees too.
Right now I'm on a geolocation team for the company. I'm hoping with enough experience I can move onto geomapping for environmental or conservation purposes. That's what I went to school for, ecology. If I did have that degree my path would likely not have been all that different. Narrow fields like that almost require experience and in some cases experience trumps school.
I'm rambling. But yeah, don't let others convince you the only way to get a decent job, and one you might like, is through school.
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ergoticmandala said: i'm prepared to fail the test

fake it to make it if need be
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ergoticmandala said: I know how my bread is buttered.
If it's always been buttered for you, how would you know? Perhaps you mean to say that you know which side it's buttered on. Which side is obvious enough, but the way in which the knife slides on the toast is a delicate matter.
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ergoticmandala said: I will finish college. My parents will be paying for it. Its the best path for me. Not much else to do. Its either I succeed in college and my parents support me, or I go get a job and try to support myself. I know how my bread is buttered.
Hey, fair enough man. You will be among the minority that finishes college with no motivation to do so. An achievement in and of itself.
There is a lot to do out there, and you can survive fine without blowing through your parents savings. I hope psychology is something you want to get in because you want to be a psychologist, not because you're just interested in psychology. Many people start as psych majors, and change eventually. There's too many of them anyway, psychology is too popular with 1st year students.
You want to be on ritalin for 6 years, you'll probably be on it for longer if you keep it up that long. You shouldn't need ritalin for your first few years of college if you were able to get through high school without it. It's not as if classes get more difficult when you enter college. Feel out your first semester before seeking it, there will be resources at your college that can help you get it if you actually have ADD, which they'll test you for as well.
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: PatrickKn]
#23773106 - 10/26/16 12:12 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ergoticmandala said: I know how my bread is buttered.
If it's always been buttered for you, how would you know? Perhaps you mean to say that you know which side it's buttered on. Which side is obvious enough, but the way in which the knife slides on the toast is a delicate matter.
yeah, i'm just going with the flow sort of, maybe i'll go to community college or something, i'm sorta burnt out on school but I always get like that in the middle of the year. Summer freshens me right up though, i even sometimes get bored in summer and want to do school.
Going to college just feels like the productive/right thing to do, and my parents are pushing me to do so. Obviously thought i'll never know whats good for me/the "right" thing to do. We shall see.
I'll surely make some posts about college and shit in the future
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Some notes for you, OP. Ritalin works, and well at that. there are better and longer lasting versions on the market, like Concerta which is a 12 hour medicine. methylphenidate is also fairly safe and if you use it in a therapeutic rage dose wise. there are few downsides if you are healthy, not that downsides don't exist. i was prescibed for a long long time and it helped tremendously. I see a lot of people here that are commenting negatively on it, many seem ill-informed or have little experience with it. my experience with it has been completely different, as i can see it works for you as well.
microdosing lsd all the time to study is ill advised, and a pretty silly idea. for one, you don't know how much is on your blotter in many cases unless it came from a lab, and even then it could still be a mystery. this is especially the case for stuff straight from the street. It also has a rapid tolerance curve, and hard to continue taking for long. lsd may work by it's agonistic effects on the norepinephrine pathways, which help to enhance memory for one. this is one of the reasons that methylphenidate is thought to work as well, except it achieves this effect by increasing levels of norepinephrine among other things.
if you are on your parents' insurance, theirs should cover it, if you are in the states - up until the age of 26 i believe or so. look around for decent psychiatrist doctors in your area and make an appointment. if you really are having issues studying or paying attention, tell them.
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Re: Help me get a ritalin script [Re: PatrickKn] 1
#23773676 - 10/26/16 03:30 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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You want to be on ritalin for 6 years, you'll probably be on it for longer if you keep it up that long. You shouldn't need ritalin for your first few years of college if you were able to get through high school without it. It's not as if classes get more difficult when you enter college. Feel out your first semester before seeking it, there will be resources at your college that can help you get it if you actually have ADD, which they'll test you for as well.
just a note here, i was on it for a very long time and quit cold turkey. i had problems staying awake for a while, but that went away. if he does have a problem with add/adhd, then he will probably be taking the meds for a long time anyway.
OP, i forgot to mention - one of the best things you can do is run and excercise as it helps increase levels of endorphins that help enhance memory, as well as BDNF.
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