This may help some parents out there.
I am 19, and started taking
adderall when i was 17, and took it for 1 and 1/2 years. The beginning of my adderall experience... i went from a 3.0gpa to just about a 4.0gpa and didn't get in trouble in class ever. Everything was going extremely well for the first 4-5 months, besides the fact i could not get erect and that kinda pissed my girlfriend off, but that's besides the point. After about 4-5 months of taking adderall, things went downhill. I became depressed, I yelled at my parents (i had a really good relationship with my parents before this), I was pissed off about 24 hours a day, i never wanted to go hang out with people, so i lost a lot of my friends, my grades went from straight A's to B/C/D range, I didn't care about anything at all, I didn't sleep well, the only reason I kept taking it was for the "high" feeling you get when you take it, the rush of blood and your heart beating faster. Well, one day I finally realized what the drug was doing to me, and haven't taken it ever since (this was about 10 months ago or so.) After i stopped taking it, for a couple months I still had no change in how i was. I even broke up with my girlfriend of 2 and a half years. That was when i reached rock bottem. After that, everything has been extremely great in my life. My relationship with my parents has improved. I am now open and go golfing with my dad and spend a lot of time with them again. After reaching rock bottem, I realized that I had broken up with an awesome girl, and I wanted her back. She said no, but that we could be friends, because throughout me taking adderall I treated her badly... as in emotionally... i was never there for her. Well, now I talk to my ex-girlfriend, and she sees that who I am today is the person who I was before I started taking adderall, and she is falling back in love with me again, and we will be getting back together in the near future. All that being said... yes adderall helped me at first, but it caused a lot of pain on my parents, my girlfriend, and my friends. Even though I still have ADD, I will never take adderall again in my life, because the better grades to me is not worth causing pain to other people. if you have any more questions feel free to email me.