Are People with ADHD More Creative?(scientificamerican.com)
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Are People with ADHD More Creative?
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I feel like I'm not "more creative" but instead, "more likely to create."
Completing things without becoming overwhelmed by the (too) many other creations is the challenge. The secondary challenge is implementing a regimen and medical plan that helps balance it all.
Ritalin is such a short acting drug (they say 4 hours, but really it is 3 if you are lucky), and it helps to take it when needing to crunch, and skip it when needing to create. It's a real bummer if you are on it all day every day. Where it is legal, 50/50 thc/cbd pills have a better balance and the beneficial effects last longer. You don't have to take so much you get buzzed any more than you do on Ritalin, and it doesn't play tricks with your heart rate.
Completing things without becoming overwhelmed by the (too) many other creations is the challenge. The secondary challenge is implementing a regimen and medical plan that helps balance it all.
Ritalin is such a short acting drug (they say 4 hours, but really it is 3 if you are lucky), and it helps to take it when needing to crunch, and skip it when needing to create. It's a real bummer if you are on it all day every day. Where it is legal, 50/50 thc/cbd pills have a better balance and the beneficial effects last longer. You don't have to take so much you get buzzed any more than you do on Ritalin, and it doesn't play tricks with your heart rate.
I will say from my personal experience that I am far more creative when I am unmedicated versus when I am medicated. I've come up with great patentable ideas while unmedicated, but I am incapable of actually drafting up the patent applications unless I take my meds.
For me, taking ADHD meds is analogous to decreasing the RAM in my brain. I juggle fewer ideas and am able to concentrate on just one thing and actually produce something.