I am requesting prayers for an issue that I’m dealing with. Namely, I have not been taking my prescription medication as prescribed. Things are a bit out of hand, but it’s still important to get back in the routine of taking one pill daily to prevent consuming increasingly more and more (it’s a severe problem at that point).
I get ADD pills prescribed, having received them regularly each month since childhood. Honestly, I don’t think there is such a thing as ADD. When you read the description of what constitutes ADD, it basically describes the profile of a person with below-average intelligence. Basically, anyone whose IQ falls below 95 can be considered ADD, and that is like half of all people. Pharmaceutical companies make a lot of money selling prescription speed and methylphenidate to kids and adults, students and professionals, and all sorts of people who could use a cognitive boost. The “disorder” is conducive for big pharma business.
I do have a traumatic brain injury. At age one and a half, I was dropped on the front of my head by an incompetent babysitter, causing severe bleeding and life-long brain problems. My functional MRI showed a lot of hypo-activity in an area called the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, which is exactly where I was hit. Consequently, I’m very lackadaisical and unmotivated; I have an exceedingly hard time initiating basic tasks. I supposed this makes me “ADD,” for lack of a better term. And yeah, the medicine makes it a whole lot better.
Sometimes I take more than one ADD pill because I like the effects, and I have been doing it every day recently for the last 4 or 5 days. But really, I shouldn’t be doing this. It is abuse of pills. True, it’s not like I’m taking 4 or 5 at a time, but even one extra pill is abuse nonetheless.
Please pray to God and ask him to work in my mind, heart, and spirit so that I take only one pill a day. Please also pray to God and ask him to work in my mind, heart, and spirit so that I can stay off the ADD pills (starting tomorrow morning) for at least two or possibly three weeks, enabling tolerance to go down and reduce the chance of repeating the same thing.
I get ADD pills prescribed, having received them regularly each month since childhood. Honestly, I don’t think there is such a thing as ADD. When you read the description of what constitutes ADD, it basically describes the profile of a person with below-average intelligence. Basically, anyone whose IQ falls below 95 can be considered ADD, and that is like half of all people. Pharmaceutical companies make a lot of money selling prescription speed and methylphenidate to kids and adults, students and professionals, and all sorts of people who could use a cognitive boost. The “disorder” is conducive for big pharma business.
I do have a traumatic brain injury. At age one and a half, I was dropped on the front of my head by an incompetent babysitter, causing severe bleeding and life-long brain problems. My functional MRI showed a lot of hypo-activity in an area called the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, which is exactly where I was hit. Consequently, I’m very lackadaisical and unmotivated; I have an exceedingly hard time initiating basic tasks. I supposed this makes me “ADD,” for lack of a better term. And yeah, the medicine makes it a whole lot better.
Sometimes I take more than one ADD pill because I like the effects, and I have been doing it every day recently for the last 4 or 5 days. But really, I shouldn’t be doing this. It is abuse of pills. True, it’s not like I’m taking 4 or 5 at a time, but even one extra pill is abuse nonetheless.
Please pray to God and ask him to work in my mind, heart, and spirit so that I take only one pill a day. Please also pray to God and ask him to work in my mind, heart, and spirit so that I can stay off the ADD pills (starting tomorrow morning) for at least two or possibly three weeks, enabling tolerance to go down and reduce the chance of repeating the same thing.
