Craig Conover on His Adderall Addiction
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Craig Conover on His Adderall Addiction
It all starts with taking one extra pill than prescribed and next thing you know you’re blowing through your script, that’s supposed to last a month, in a week or two.
Exactly what I did
Then dreading life and coming down waiting for that refill.
FACT!!!!!🤦🏻♂️😩
He'll ya
Nobody needs it. That stuff is poison
“I don’t call my doctor because I didn’t have an adderall to call my doctor” full blown truth right there man…
If you need Adderall for basic tasks like calling your doctor, you should consider the possibility of misuse. A therapeutic dosage works when lifestyle factors such as proper rest, diet, and sleep are maintained. However, if you're fatigued because you took Adderall at night - which is not recommended - you won't get adequate rest. As a result, your prescribed dosage won't be effective, leading you to rely on more Adderall. This is fundamental knowledge, yet people often blame the medication, which can be highly beneficial for thousands when managed correctly.
Everyone here knows they are misusing and abusing.
@@Lemon86807no, he’s saying its adhd to do simple things like calling your doctor. It’s common with those with adhd to put tasks at the last moment.
But this guy in the vid is definitely abusing it and prob doesn’t have adhd.
So helpful to hear people talk about Adderral addiction and withdrawals. I’m currently on the rollercoaster and it’s HELL!!!
I am in the clutches of it. I need to quit.
@@Aurora-ep6bdhow badly were you abusing it
@@Don_SoLow87i Need to quit too
@@Don_SoLow87 taper off very very slowly. i almost killed myself using it
How are you doing brother?
Sobriety is the best feeling man
I’m on probation for another 5 years, can’t drive for another 5 years
I was an alcoholic from 2020-2022 and it hurt me and a lot of people in my life
I’ve since quit medical weed/alcohol/and caffeine
Eating healthy and gaining muscle
Living my best life right now👊🏼🙏🏼
That stuff got me through college but cost me a marriage.
Same brother. I ended up having an affair and being a REALLLL whacko piece of shit. I was snorting 120mg a day for 3 years of Teva brand
Goddamn bro that sucks I had a band competition and over 4 days I did 335mg and I turned yellow after and that I was finna die
Can you eleborate? I want to see if the same thing happened to me?
Wauw. That hit hard.
Wipes out your empathy and turns you into 2 different people. After a while you forget who you were before.
I’m a recovering addict & let me tell you… Adderall is a highly addictive drug, which I was led to opiates, but if I had to choose what my “gateway” drug was… I’d say adderall
OMG same thing here! I loved adderall but the comedown would make me drink, but that started making me really sick so then I started turning to opiates as well to deal with the calm down and I formed a mild addiction there. Adderall is no joke.
I know you wrote this a while ago, but did you stay clean? I’ve been off of it for about four months now and I still don’t feel anywhere near back to normal. They say it takes 2 to 4 years for your brain and dopamine to go back to normal.
adderall ruined my life. helped me for so long but then i was taking a months worth of pills in a week and a half
Same here
@Jeff Landis took 5/6 years of taking over 130mgs a day but i got clean in February! There is hope Jeff.
I stopped lying to my therapist and doctor which was incredibly hard and replaced it with pot and alcohol which i don’t recommend, but now i’m early on my sober journey! get some help, share with others and be vulnerable and join an NA online virtual meeting when lonely or feeling the urge to take adderall just because listening to people who understand is really helpful
@Jeff Landis more like a year to get clean once i decided i needed to. When I ran out I would just sleep all the time. My doctors started to think i had bipolar disorder because I’d be up and manic-like for 1.5-2 weeks then the rest of the month tired all the time, but it was always just the adderall and I kept it to myself. They put me on a bunch of medications that actually made me gain a ton of weight but I did it all to keep the adderall. For a while I would tell my doc to change the meds once I ran out (Vyvanse, then run out and say that was too low a dose for me at 70mg, then Concerta, then say the same for that) and always back to adderall but that could only go on for so long. I’d just sleep, be lazy, and that’s about it. It was a hard time. I’m so sorry you’re struggling with this now. I say, when you’re ready, don’t do any of that titration shit, just throw them in the toilet and quit, but you gotta quit on your own terms and when you really decide to. if it’s for anyone else you’ll just go back like i did
Did you not have ADHD? It sounds like you did it only to get high.
@@carlossegura403 I’ve had ADHD since kindergarten but got the meds before starting college.
After 18 years of taking it and now I have been off of it for a year everything he says is true. I never realized how dependent I was on it. My life is so much better on it.
I took one of my sons pills to see what he was going thru and it started my journey into hell. I sware I knew nothing about it prior.
What mg did you take? Instant or extended version?
Crazy how a seemingly small decision can completely change the course of your life
thank you for sharing! u’re helping so many folks with adderall addiction.
The Adderall dosage prescribed to a patient is based on the assumption of a balanced lifestyle, including proper rest, diet, and sleep. The medication is necessary when, despite these factors being in place, it's still challenging to manage symptoms. However, abuse can start when these lifestyle factors are neglected. In such cases, the normal dosage seems ineffective, leading to increased intake to compensate for the unhealthy lifestyle.
I feel like people only like the “me” that’s on adderall. If I’m not on adderall I’m not focused, dumb and I can’t perform well in school. Professors hate the person that i am without it, so I feel like I need it. I have took it in the past, but I stopped because the way it made me feel. Now I don’t care anymore
fuck professors lol you don't need them to like you, nor should you care.
It’s tough because most who have been on addy for years usually have a few years of overachieving and then the affects are less and less and less. I either live with my silly brain or accept being essentially chatgpt tweaked and dead inside.
Dependency/addicted is normal for a drug taken everyday. Majority of Americans are addicted/dependent on a little drug called caffeine that no one seems to talk about.
When the adderall abuse creeps in (taking more than prescribed) that is when the downfall begins. Give up/seek help sooner rather than later. The addy high isn’t worth it in the end. (And not even really worth it during tbh)
I used it for 4years (only to stay skinny and it gave me lots of energy) Aderall curved my hunger for most of all day, as time passed on it started wearing off sooner and my hunger would be insatiable at night. I ultimately gained 20lbs because I would pig out at night when it wore off. I finally stopped taking it. It's been 2months since my last dose. My withdrawals were that I became sooooo lazy & uninspired to get up and get my day going however its finally wearing off.
Omg same here. Used it for about the same time as well to Get stuff done, but it also made me skinny. I stopped, taking it about four months ago, and I still feel super super lazy, very unmotivated, very unproductive, it’s so hard to get anything done. It’s starting to worry me actually because I have so much things I need to do and it’s like I just feel like I can’t. How long has it taken for you to feel normal? If you’ve been to yet. I read that some people it takes 2 to 4 years to feel completely back to normal and get your dopamine back up to regular and working on its own.
There's so many better things to use for weight loss bruh.....
@caseys8754than why exactly do you not take it? It is safe when taking within the prescribed doses range for most people. If you where addicted to it in the past it might not be a good idea tho
Dealing with someone close to my life rn that swears he not addicted just cause he takes the "recommended dose", sure, but the come down is insane and he is so explosively mad there's nothing to calm him down. I threw the pills down the drain this morning, down a dirty kitchen garbage disposal, and he fished them covered in mold and other gross shit. And ran off with them to work. And he swears I'm making the addiction up 😞 pretty sure we're gonna break up today because I called his mother telling her I'm absolutely worried about him, and he said I ruined his life. I'm 26, he's 24. he's not in school, he says he needs it for "work". No you don't, you're not dealing with your DEPRESSION/ ANXIETY.
I can feel for you, an ex of mine was prescribed it because she told her doctor she had “low energy” she would take it twice per day and like 30 minutes after each one, “Let’s do this/Can you do that?/Were gonna do this now/Call this place for me…”
Like “demands” and wants started flying out like a firehouse.
You threw HIS medication down the drain? Did I read that correctly? If that is the case then you completely crossed the line. It is not your decision what someone else puts in their body, especially a medication that a doctor is prescribing. If he's taking his medication as prescribed then he most likely isn't addicted. There is a difference between addiction and dependence. I know your heart was in the right place but you really shouldn't do that in my opinion.
If I misinterpreted what you said then I apologize. I say all of that with love.
@Chad Higgins it's not like he went into the doctor and the doctor told him what he should take, he went in to the office begging for Adderall cause he was addicted to ecstasy. He figured he could get off the estacy If he had his Adderall again. Basically replacing one addiction with another. he specifically chose a doctor that was lazy and had a low rating, and didn't ask questions, just "why are you here?" "I want adderall" "okay I'll give that to you", trust me if he needed it I wouldn't have touched it. This was a case of he wanted it and the doctor failed him by giving him it, instead of asking why he was so hell bent on having it.
Also, he was prescribed 1 pill a day. They were gone in a week and a half. A whole month supply. he would open the capsules and pour the salt into his mouth cause it worked quicker. Does that sound normal to you? Yeah... didn't think so..
@@XCHADHIGGINSXDependance is caused by use overtime and the only that keeps it from being called addiction is taking therapeutic dose. Dependance is therapeutic addiction. When the benefits outweigh the stable dependence. Dependance looks the same as addiction it just isn’t getting any worse as you take the prescribed amount and receive benefits from the medication, but you are in fact addicted to the medication you will crave it if you go off, not because it makes you normal but because these drugs wire your reward system to rely on the medication = addiction. We use the term dependence instead as its therapeutic addiction as we don’t wanna shame those who use them.
Arguably the vast majority of folks who take these medications are worse off for it as there are many side effects and the adhd community has done a lot of damage calling these side affects of adhd when in reality they’re side effects of medication, half of these folks don’t even have adhd. Also it’s proven people with adhd typically overcome the condition overtime, but when you medicate them the chances of this happening decreases significantly as there stimulated brain comes to rely on medication that exacerbates adhd if you come off of them.
One time I had prolly 100mg and I talked to my mom bout politics for like 8 hrs straight
Jesus is she on it too?!
@@travisreich1399 😂
Wow this exact thing happened to me, she was like “wow this is a great conversation” 😭😭🤣
I took it in various forms practically every day for about 4 years. It felt like a perfect drug to me because in addition to the typical non-ADHD reasons for taking it, I have debilitating social anxiety which it happened to completely eliminate whenever I took it. I'm not sure how I would've ever gotten off it if wasn't for the pandemic. That window of several months of basically not having to do anything out of the house gave me enough time to reset my body without it.
Yall stayed inside? Man, that was the BEST time to go out as a socially anxious person EVER!!!!!!!! Ultimate freedom, roads, parks, trails all empty. I wish we could have it back lol
Kinda feel like they’re all in adderal in this video
Thank you for speaking about it. My husband is addicted and just because a doctor prescribed them for him he thinks there’s nothing wrong with taking it.He abused the amount he takes. Has caused a lot of problems close to divorce…
oh yeah the right thing to do is to talk about it on the internet...
@@sexy_gragas_nft7664 she didn’t disclose any person information, just truth. Showing how serious it is.
Unfortunately it might take your husband going through losing his marriage to actually realize what it’s doing to his life. I hate to say it but I was that husband.
The Romans didn't build Rome on adderall, nor the french, nor the american colonies, nor anyone before mass industrialization. Now, we supplement ourselves with lab engineered chemicals out of convenience and scarcity of natural vitamins in our localities. Natural supplements and exercise is needed in this age more than any other!
Good point. However the military was providing amphetamines to their pilots and other servicemen when needed in war time with the justification of, “It’s war and we need them to be super-able”. I wonder how much would not have been achieved with societies advancements if not for caffeine and nicotine. Related, the government isn’t increasing the regulation on Adderall because despite the problems associated with it they know that people couldn’t get out of bed without it. That means less productivity and work which would effect the economy. Compared to opiates, the percentage is a lot lower as far as deaths from Adderall. That’s all “they” can about.
Slaves did
I don't give a sh it what the doctors say, no one should take speed eveyday for years. No one. It's just speed.
Exactly!!!!!!!!💯💯
Im on day 3 without. Man im so sleepy its insane!!
It gets better. B12 and vitamin C, exercise, nutrition al food, and lots of rest to catch up on that sleep deficit, and you’ll feel better in no time. 😘😘😘
@@kierawelch2106 thanks ❤️ Yeah Ive learned the first couple of days is ok to be bedbound, youre so tired cuz you havent slept well enough for quite some time. ❤️
Ive never taken addy, but if you have - what has been your experience? Im currently addicted to kratom. If I dont have it every 8hr, i got into wd. runny nose, deep depression, sweats. Restlessness, and general DYSphoria.
Yup right here! I started taking kratom to deal with Addy comedown! Now I’m addicted to Kratom. How much do you take?
I take a lot - about 100g powder a day. I have taken it off and on since 2007. Its safe for most part - but can be debilitatingly addictive. I also avoid extracts - extracts in wd on different level. Do not touch extracts. @@jasmine9064
i’ve been taking up to 60 grams a day of kratom for 3 years, & for the last year and a bit i’ve been taking 30MG Adderall XR daily with it. by far the hardest addiction to overcome in my opinion. they go together way too well. please stay away from adderall, & try your best to get off the kratom as well.
I’m recovering from both adderall and kratom and I’m on suboxone for it. I’ll probably be on this shit for the rest of my life. I had severe WD and seizures during my K WD.
Funny how people are affected differently.. i was prescribed 2x20mg adderall / day, and definitely enjoyed the effects but after a few days i had to drop to 1x20mg a day, then only mon-friday. It would burn me out. Never wanted to redose or take more even tho i really liked the effects of it. .....BUT, one single dose of something else and I was immediately taking it all day every day always wanting more.
That's because that is far too much....... At first I thought that 40mg a day felt FANTASTIC and had me getting shit done and not feeling ADHD then very very quickly 40mg because WAY too much. Arguing with my wife, doing only hyperfused activity instead of healthy normal shit. Im back down to 15-20mg a day and i will say this is much more akin to what a medicine should feel like. It's not euphoric, but also no bipolar crashes and stuff that 40mg gave me BAD.
Adderall is MAGICAL for people without ADD as long as you have SELF CONTROL and only use it here and there. The problem is that it feels so dang good to be on it … which makes it HARD to NOT take it all the time…
klegit it changed my. life it just gives me hairloss which is so frustrating
Exactly! If I could just take one Adderall and get my stuff done and focus, I would be fine. But the problem is I can never take just one. Ever. I’ll take one then Midday, I’ll take another one and then I usually slide one more in there a few hours later to last for the night. I ended up turning to opiates to kind of deal with come down. It was just all a mess. Now when I don’t take it I feel so unproductive and lazy. It’s ridiculous and can’t get anything done.
@@jasmine9064 I’ve been almost EXACTLY where you have been. I have a buddy who used to get prescribed like SIXTY 30mg adderall every month, and he’d sell me as many as I wanted each month. I would buy anywhere from 5-10. Instead of just holding on to them and using them sparingly, I’d eat them every day because I loved the buzz so much!! The first day or 2 were great, but then I wouldn’t really be able to sleep and it would catch up to me and I’d get super irritable. Then, I was getting like 10 klonopin (benzo similar to Xanax) for the comedown. I never became addicted to either one because I would just binge for a week straight and then let myself recover the rest of the month. Binging adderall does a number on your brain and nervous system. I love my opiates too! It’s a slippery slope… and I still get a couple adderall from time to time.
Yeah if it feels very good your probably just taking to much....
@@jasmine9064yeah your just taking to much to begin with if you have a strong come down you don't need to be high to work
I'm on suboxone...legal opiate equals legal meth...
Actually that’s desoxyn… look it up
Hiding pills around the house hit to close to home 😩
Don't take more than Prescribed and you will be fine.
I've been on Adderall since I was 6 years old. Let that sink in. I remember as a child my mom would open the capsule and would place it on the spoon and then put some cereal and milk on the spoon to cover it up and hand feed me the first spoon of my cereal in the morning because she knew I didn't wanna take it. Now I didn't wanna take it because as a child Adderall gave me bad head aches but I was prescribed it because I have ADHD. I am grateful now because it helps me focus on tasks in adulthood and I don't abuse it but that's messed up that we give it to children I literally refer to it as "diet meth" jokingly sometimes because it's literally an amphetamine!!
Who's to say alot of children's declining mental health nowadays isn't partially to blame on us medicating them? Us giving kids this stuff is a fairly recent thing as far as I'm aware.
Also I have to stay off of Adderall for a week because I'm having a surgery done and I gotta fast and stay off my meds tor the procedure and man the withdrawal has been kicking my ass. I feel sleepy and depressed all day long everyday.
Yup. Its terrible.
Amphetamine let's call it that's all it is
Ppl have so many issues from this drug cuz most won’t tell u they snort it
problem with that?
Adderall destroyed my life
Not gonna lie your comment hit me so hard! It has ruined me and I can’t stop taking it! But I’ll try to get off it. I’ve become a zombie because of it
Getting off of it will suck - I’m being real. I went to rehab, I was kinda forced to go, but all I could think about was getting out and getting high for those 30 days. I was on 30mg’s instant release (60 a month) and my addition was BAD - I could take 4 at once and would stay up for 3 straight nights. Anyway, if you decide you’re tired of being tired, you gotta fight it all the time. After 2.5 years of being clean of daily adderall use, I’m happier and have more energy than I ever have in my entire life - even before I started taking speed at all. I’m 31 years old btw. It takes commitment and time. But I’m proof that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Just trust me. Btw I still drink alcohol and smoke weed. I don’t think I could have kicked the speed addiction without those two chemicals easing the emptiness. Don’t underestimate the power of your addiction. Even after 3 months of clean progress, you’ll still want to get back on it. It takes more time than a week, a month or a year. You just gotta trust me. I bet I was more addicted than you. I’m here for both of you. 💙
Same here!! Elaborate more….
@@TommyReagan Yep same here. I wasn’t even taking that much but I was taking more than prescribed so I was abusing it bite. It ruined my life. I’ve been off of it now for almost 4 months and I still don’t feel anywhere near normal. They say it takes 2 to 3 years sometimes even for to go back to normal for your brain to start producing dopamine and functioning on its own again it sucks so bad. I’m so unproductive no unmotivated I can’t get anything done.
@@jasmine9064 ive tried so many times to stop, unfortunately even right now i am back on it! ive tried stopping over the past 10 years almost 30 times and ive failed its very hard! ive gone as far as 2 months thats the longest ive gone without it! i wish i could sleep on it! the whole not getting enough sleep or sleeping late is what i hate the most!
Wow... i prescribe adderall 20mg. Took it to focus for work. Im an alcoholic. Never liked the adderall high. No go. Yuck. I could drink so much from alcohol but adderall would make me strangley drowsy. Didnt like it.
It's cause you don't need it
I would steal my dads girlfriends adderall my dad found out and he started stealing them to 😂
‘While i have ya’ bwaha
It all ends with finding a new girl and you got ed and your like naw son fuck this and you realize when you just take control of your mind and say I can focus I got this , you don’t need it
Can u expand on taking control of ur mind. Havent been productive since I quit abusing it
Narrow yourself into a corner. Make it life or death. Will you lie down & do nothing or will you focus & live your best life
if only it worked like that
@@U.s-epaIt does for many and it can work like that for you. You might be missing a key component: girl.
Idk it seems to help me. I have been on it for a year and a half. Haven’t increased my dosage in 6 months. I feel that it helps me get the little things done. Things like basic hygiene and stuff. Also helps with phone addiction and cleaning up. These were all things that I struggled with before getting treated for adhd. It doesn’t “get me high” anymore or give me a buzz but it helps getting off track and allows me to function like a normal person. Before being medicated for ADHD I had a lot of trouble and was basically dysfunctional.
Do you take it everyday?
@@5thfloor584 yes. I take one extended release in the morning every day. Now if I was chasing the high (which definitely does go away) than I would have to keep going up in dose. But if you aren’t chasing the dragon you can still take it every day and see benefits from it. Especially if you have adhd (although I’m not a doctor).
Whatever you gotta tell yourself 👀
Nice. Always stay aware.
I took adderall IR for 5 or more years before I ever had a problem abusing it. Slowly increasing my dosage through those years
If you truly had adhd you would never have felt a “high” in the first place. Adderall works the opposite on ADHD and makes people with it calm down and become level. The fact you only take the recommended dosage is good but the day you feel the need to take extra is the day you need to throw it away. I used to do the recommended dosage for a while too. I’m 3 years in now and I’m a full blown addict. I double up or triple my dosages and it’s ruining my life.
My testimony on adderall addiction below if interested. How I died and met God. It's real, God is real!
Where?
To anyone that thinks adderall is inherently bad because people got addicted you can be addicted to anything and everything you cam think of. Because you can get addicted to something doesn’t make it bad. If I cant stop eating that doesn’t mean food is now bad all of a sudden. I take adderral for my adhd. Its only been 6 months but it changed my life for the better.
Comparing food to adderall literally makes zero sense whatsoever. Adderall is a drug that chemically alters your brains neurotransmitters. It is ONE single molecule off of the same compound as meth. Just because someone has ADHD doesn’t mean that adderall is healthy for them. Adderall destroys your natural production of neurotransmitters regardless of you take it “safely” or not
Spoken like someone who is addicted to adderal lol 👀
@@Bro-Sapien Do you have adhd?
@@Bro-Sapien hahahah this made me laugh
Said Literally every adderall addict in the beginning. That’s exactly why it’s so addicting, because it feels like you found the answer to your problems. 6 months in I was doing great too. 3 years in now and I’m a full blown speed addict. Be careful, the stuff is addicting.
Ive done allot of drugs. I've don ALLOT of Adderall.
I noticed he was on stimulants way back in the show and watched it get worse and worse. Told my wife i know and she just thought it was alcohol. WAY EARLY IN THE show.
I hate this guy. Ive watch everyone throw dream jobs at him and opportunities. He always failed. Not even try really. Id do anything for opportunities like he has gotten.
It’s really frustrating seeing people abuse this drug when people like me need it just to function
Adhd isnt real bro everyone has the same problems u do
Not everyone but i just mean its normal to have alot of the "symptoms of adhd" its completely normal but its easy to sell prescriptions by making up something based on common behavior traits
@Jeff Landis bruh everyone has these same symptoms they act like they are a rare case other people just dont blame evrything on their adhd.
@Jeff Landis i got adhd and autism bro im a str8 retard
@@HumilityListens You think if someone is sad that means they have depression? Or if you’re a little anxious you have an anxiety problem? You think adhd was made up? For what reason? I don’t think you understand what ADHD is.
You still have bags under your eyes so don't even consider going back to that lifestyle. I remember the first time someone told me I had bags under my eyes but I was wide awake and ready to go. I'm watching so I can learn from your experience because I know it's not easy. Fortunately I took over the counter stimulants so I'm looking for some answers. Thank the Good Lord that I never had access to any significant quantity of Adderall or anything harder. I wish you the best of luck. By the way, the only reason I'm subscribing is because I Love soup and you have a can of Campbell's soup in the background.🥣