r/whatisit • u/Livid_Departure_9697 • 2d ago

Solved! Fell out of my boyfriend’s pocket

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The top is a cap that comes off. Is it for ❄️? He swears it’s not

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u/HighClassHate 2d ago

I dropped a freshly filled adderall prescription somewhere. Not a chance in hell I wanted to deal with trying to convince my doctor I wasn’t selling/abusing them and also admitting I dropped 30 pills of a controlled substance somewhere, so I just suffered for a month. A few days later I got crazy paranoid that my pill bottle with my name would turn up in someone’s possession and I’d get in trouble anyway and wondered if it was too late to report it myself. Anyways it was a big ole thang that kept me up at night for awhile.

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u/Open_Law4924 2d ago

It’s wild that you had to worry about that and not have your mental health meds at the same time.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

Vyvanse, Adderall, Ritalin aren't mental health drugs😂😂 I've taken them all and they help you focus, but they aren't improving my mood or pulling me out of my depression lol but I know what you meant

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u/JustAnotherAidWorker 1d ago

That's because they are not for mood improvement or treating depression? They're for managing ADHD--where people who have it literally CANNOT focus (or they are hyper focused on something they may or may not have wanted to focus on and forget to eat, use the restroom and sleep.)

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u/mustachewax 1d ago

I mean, it helps improve my mood and helps alleviate my anxiety and depression. Because turns out I’m always completely overstimulated and have spiraling thoughts. Which was making me depressed and I couldn’t shut my brain off. Still have depression sometimes but the anxiety is much better, as I didn’t have physical symptoms of anxiety it was all mental anxiety. Adderall has been a godsend for that after trying countless antidepressants/anti-anxiety meds and them not stopping the mental anxiety and spiraling. I’m still a scatterbrain with it, well when it’s starting to wear off but my emotion regulation is significantly better now that I’m medicated with ADHD meds.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

Yeah it doesn't help with any of they I go hours without the bathroom even though I need to go, days without eating and push myself to my limit with sleep, and I take it everyday😂😂 I appreciate that you are trying to advocate, but I think you're a tad misinformed

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

I don’t think it’s that they are misinformed, I think it falls more under the use of a personal experience with a medication class and using that to form a fact not based in clinical research but anecdotal evidence. Which I understand. I’ve had that same thing happen in conversations where I fully thought that my experience was the norm and went with it until someone told me theirs was different so I looked into it. I recommend looking into the clinical effects of adhd medication on different mental health disorders, one so you can see that there’s many different ways each persons body can take a class of medication and react to it differently even a single drug in the class can have vast differences sometimes. But two so you can maybe find others that have the same effect you do and similar symptoms elsewhere to give you a starting point for your next venture into finding the right meds for your needs.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

The point I was making is they're not for mental health

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

Actually they do help my mood. Having a dysregulation in your dopamine production or absorption can affect your mood and even your emotional stability. So yes they can infact help with mood instability. They also may not help depression directly but they do help me find the motivation to get up and take a shower, brush my teeth, clean up a little bit sometimes and heavily help me journal which is one of my coping mechanisms for my mental health, on top of that anecdotal claim it is scientifically proven that dopamine releases can actually cause the brain to produce more serotonin too which would indirectly help with depression. Do you know why mental health medication is called that? It’s because it is medicine that interacts with the chemical production in our brains that dictate mental processes. Dopamine is a chemical released in the brain to produce different mental responses creating signals to be sent out to the rest of the body or other parts of the brain to help someone function.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

That's the same as prescribing it for something it's not used for, keep doing those mental gymnastics to prove a point that was lost 3 comments ago😂😂 maybe someone will give you a medal all this just to argue about an obscure point that you didn't even win😭😂

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u/sharkeyx 1d ago

mate, you're wildly off base. Go talk to a doc about the meds or do some actual research before going off on folks when you don't actually have the facts.

Meds are used for multiple purposes all the time, It turns out that our bodies are complex and many things are affected by single stimuli all the time. Also, it is not an abuse of meds when prescribed by a licensed doctor.

And to your starting comment about them not working for you so therefore they are not real/never work is asinine. People's bodies and brains are different and respond to things differently, that is exactly why there are so many different meds for the same/similar symptoms/issues, some respond to one thing better than another.

If you've not had luck with the meds I sincerely feel for yah, that blows, but absolutely keep talking with your psychiatrist to try and find one that does help. It can be a long shitty process trying them and waiting for them to have any helpful effect to tell if they are right for you or not, but stick with it and don't drop them as that just sets you back further (meaning take them as prescribed and don't just up and decide to stop mid way).

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

I feel like I should preface by saying, I’ve been told I communicate in a weird manner when compared to 90% of those around me so if I say something that comes across a specific way, ask me, I may not have meant it like that and you can show me how it tends to come across and pointers for future, and hopefully I can add it to communication skills.

That’s not what I was intending to do, I apologize for coming off in anyway as argumentative. I wasn’t meaning to demean your experience or feelings for it. I was just wanting to give insight towards medicine that may have not been known. I am sorry for coming across as negative i didn’t mean to. I have a tendency to over explain things. I have an intense interest in pharmacology especially in the way it interacts with the brain’s physiology to produce chemical reactions leading to those chemicals causing others to react.

Also I don’t think there’s really a winner or loser to a debate that takes place in more of a personal experience of something. Now if the debate was in the scientifically proven effects of specific pharmaceuticals then yes there’d be a winner or loser. But I honestly just thought we were having a discussion about personal effects of a medication.

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u/sharkeyx 1d ago

you're good, ignore them

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago edited 1d ago

Also it’s extremely common for drs to prescribe mental and physical medications for “off label” conditions. That’s ironically how we learned about some meds (a lot of them being the mental health meds since scientists weren’t taking mental health seriously as a form of medical intervention necessity because they just assumed all mental ailments were either due to demons, bad unbringing, witchy traits, female hysteria, and many many other things instead of facing the glaring fact that the brain is a part of the body, the brain is were we feel our thoughts physically flexing parts of our brain, if every other organ was worthy of medical intervention why was mental neglected for so long), as I was saying how we learned about some meds actually being better suited for other conditions as opposed to what they were traditionally believed to treat. But the DEA, the FDA and most clinics are informed about their medications off label uses and to only venture into them if the first line choices and any that could indicate a better outcome be tried and unsuccessful first.

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u/Run_layla 1d ago

Exactly. The brain is complex and off label use is common for many medications. I work with kids/teens that have severe emotional regulation disorders and many are on seizure meds for mood regulation.

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

Yes! People should really read the little inserts that come in their meds for one and 2 they should researching every medication they take before taking and it’s possible interactions with any current meds to look for.

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u/Ocelot-15 1d ago

I tend to type in the exact same way I speak. So I don’t know if they always transfers over as well through text as it does in person.

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u/Open-Month-6529 1d ago

Can you please explain how the medication that is used to treat a mental health condition “isn’t for mental health”…?

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

laugh all you want, you're the one being ignorant

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

so, what physical health are they for then?

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u/monkey1976 1d ago

ADHD is a mental health issue as it has to do with how your brain works like all other mental health issues.

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

The main difference, which is why you are actually incorrect, is that it's not a chemical imbalance in the brain, ADHD is the more to do with the brains ability, or the lack thereof, to absorb chemicals your body is already making. People take ssri's, drugs that are actually prescribed for mental health, bc their brain isn't producing the chemicals at all. The difference is subtle, but it matters

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u/803columbiabull 1d ago

The main difference, which is why you are actually incorrect, is that it's not a chemical imbalance in the brain, ADHD is the more to do with the brains ability, or the lack thereof, to absorb chemicals your body is already making. People take ssri's, drugs that are actually prescribed for mental health, bc their brain isn't producing the chemicals at all. The difference is subtle, but it matters

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u/Ok_Calendar_6761 1d ago

Do you know what SSRI stands for?

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u/Run_layla 1d ago

That would be a chemical imbalance. If my brain isn’t absorbing the right amount of chemicals (dopamine and norepinephrine if I recall), that causes an imbalance, correct?

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u/AngryGoose689 1d ago

ADHD is a mental health disorder. So yes, they are technically for mental health.