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63 Post author: lukeprog 18 January 2012 10:30PM

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Comment author: WrongBot 19 January 2012 08:46:51AM 8 points [-]

For what it's worth, that sounds virtually identical to a problem psychologists have told me is ADHD. (I also had a catastrophic school attendance failure in seventh grade, funnily enough.) Adderall has unpleasant side-effects but actually allows me to sit down and work for eight or ten consecutive hours, whenever I want to. Not perfectly, but the effect is remarkable.

Comment author: CronoDAS 21 January 2012 12:33:52AM 1 point [-]

I think prescription antidepressants also tend to have a similar energy-boosting effect.

Comment author: thomblake 19 January 2012 08:37:32PM 1 point [-]

I've observed the same problem and solution as well.