What My ADHD Looks Like After Being Medicated for 6 Months.

Katie McCarville
4 min readMar 4, 2023

If you haven’t read my first story on getting medicated— Here. Then I suggest you go ahead and read and come back because I’m gonna pick up right where I left off.

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When I first got medicated, it completely changed how I perceived the world. It was like putting on noise cancelling headphones during a symphony performance. It all just went quiet.

Now I’ve been on Adderall for about 6 months now, and the experience is a bit different then when I first started. After not being medicated for ADHD my whole life to being medicated (and thriving) for the past 6 months — here is a few things that I have found.

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For one, I lost 40 pounds. Which isn’t really the point of taking Adderall but it was something that I experienced and did help to make me healthier I do have to admit.

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Katie McCarville

Feminist, Artist, Writer, ADHD haver, Playboy, Philanthropist🤷 I’m really just at the mercy of my own perspective. https://linktr.ee/katie_mccarv