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Originally Posted by Karon Sawbuck
Is your son down or seem sad on adderall, is it a long acting slow release pill.
Tx Karon |
Sadness or depression is a withdrawal symptom
of stimulants. Withdrawal symptoms can occur while on medication if tolerance has developed.
Tolerance is a tricky beast; some people can go years without developing it and suddenly one day it just happens; others seem to become tolerant much quicker.
Tolerance is a component
of addiction, but only in the physical sense, not the psychological sense.... meaning true "addiction" itself must include psychological and behavioral aspects. Addiction in the physical sense is simply called "dependancy", not addiction, although people always seem to call it addiction anyway or assume they are one in the same.
Dependancy is when the brain gets used to certain chemicals controlling it's functions, thus it stops trying to produce those chemicals itself. It's a purely physical phenomenon, not at all a psychological weakness or behavioral problem.
However, the brain has a survival instinct and will try to somehow take control...this is what tolerance is all about. Unfortuantely, when the brain takes on this fight, it sets up all sorts
of receptors it shouldn't have, thus creating a mal-functioning system.
Tolerance is the inevidable outcome
of long term use
of most mood or brain drugs, it's time frame is extremely varied. Sometimes people don't realize they end up needing medication forever simply to stave off the withdrawal/tolerance reactions the brain develops over time...those reactions are usually brushed off by the psychiatric community as original problem getting worse or new, unmasked condition revealing itself, thus creating the need for more medication or new medication.....
Now ..his school concert was last night so yesterday was an exciteable day, could that cause a bad day today??? Or will it have to be increased (which we would like to avoid as his tics then increase). For those 
