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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the wrong drug for the problem. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 24 and had been "self-medicating" (without ever guessing I had ADHD) with a TON of caffeine. Although caffeine and Ritalin/Adderall are all stimulants, they work differently. Thus, the amount of caffeine you'd need to have any significant positive effect on ADHD would make you so insanely jittery it would not be worth it. If you do meds, do meds. Caffeine is still a drug.[/quote] +1. I'm an adult with ADHD on stimulant meds. Coffee wakes you up, but it doesn't help you to focus like a med. My sister got coffee instead of meds when she was a child (I got neither until I went to the doctor as a college student) and it did nothing except make her hyper. Good thought, OP, but not the right solution for this. [/quote]
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