How else am I suppose to get through college? Full time work, full time school...It's not like the studying and homework is going to do itself, and there is no way I can do it all without help. Maybe if I had an extra 20 hours a week to not be as efficient while I study. Many people I know are in the same boat.

That's drug abuse.

Efficient drug abuse atleast.

I'm 50 years old, and was 're-diagnosed' with Adult ADD about 10 years ago. I tried to get the diagnosis, and it was easy. Because we're all pretty much ADD, with the culture we live in being the cause.

I wasn't able to keep my job @ a PC workstation, do all the multi-tasking, etc. that is demanded of so many of us these daze'n'times, without the focus (read: limiting) provided by this crap.

I went into it with eyes wide open, knowing that I'm not 'really' ADD. The culture is. It's what I have to willingly do to turn myself into a cog in the machine.

I can't believe I live in a country in which eating and sleeping appear to have become optional activities.

I also cannot believe that my great-niece was the ONLY child not on Ritalin in her third-grade rural NH school room. Yikes.

From comments I've read elsewhere, it appears young people without ADHD are getting prescriptions to enhance their academic performance. This is really disturbing, imo.

Ya know, I think plenty of people ARE getting through college without abusing drugs. Maybe working part-time, going to school part-time might be options. "I can't believe I live in a country in which eating and sleeping appear to have become optional activities." I agree, Sherry. I also think it's more "normal" to not be able to hold a job at a PC workstation if it's supposedly so standard to require performance-enhancing drugs, and that the culture is not "normal." It's sick. People really think this is such a great country in which there is basically no middle class lifestyle for average people and the pressure on us is driving us crazy. Fuck this.