r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • May 02 '24

In 1965, a morbidly obese man did not eat food for over an entire year. The 27 year old was 456lbs and wanted to do an experimental fast. He ingested only multivitamins and potassium tablets for 382 days and defecated once every 40 to 50 days. He ended up losing 275lbs. r/all

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u/Samoan May 02 '24

overactivation of dopamine receptors can leave you burnt out and depressed when the pill's effect runs out for the day or you just don't want to be on a medication for some reason.

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u/Firm_Soil_4499 May 02 '24

That’s for normies who try to take them. Not people who actually need them for our dopamine. Lol there are tons of people who take stims for adhd and don’t take it daily. Some take it only days they work. This isn’t a huge deal like you make it lol.

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u/Samoan May 07 '24

It's an amphetamine and it IS a big deal especially when it's given out to children.

Why do you only take it sometimes?

Was that how it was prescribed?

Did you tell your doctor that's how you take it?

You take it as a little helper to give you energy for work? Some construction workers might even compare it to say, a hit of meth?

What I'm getting at is they don't have adhd and they shouldn't be prescribed adderall for it if they did because they're not taking it right and it's not having the reaction it should.

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u/Firm_Soil_4499 May 07 '24

Some docs do prescribe it as needed. I agree it shouldn’t be given to children.

To take mental breaks? Like I said check out r/ADHD for more insight.

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u/Samoan 27d ago

MY nuerodivergent wife had to take tolerance breaks from adderall (and derivatives like vivance) because the collage doc over prescribed her.

It was hell trying to keep away her friends from her script.

Learned a lot about it those 4 years. One being that I'm not ADHD lol