a lot of people commit suicide when on or coming off these drugs...
Wow, wtf. Is it the drug controling the pychopath, or the pychopath blaming the drug? Think about that one. Also, you can die from "overdosing" on freaking children's cough syrup, etc, so don't assume that a control substance is bad when used
outside it's intended use.
To the OP, best thing to do is make lists and designated spots for shit like keys. I *ALWAYS* put my phone/wallet/keys together in the same spot, so it becomes habbit and I don't loose them. I also have several spots for post-it notes, stacks of used notes with ideas I'd otherwise forget, and general lists of things I need to do today, this month, and even this year. Patterns or routines help imensely too. Obviously I have adhd myself, I forget short-term stuff like a mutherfuck. I can forget shit mid-sentance, it's rediculous. However with meds (that I rarely take now) or random bursts of clairity, I can get rediculous amounts of stuff done with a focused effort.
Adderal XR has been my favorite, fewest side effects, and longest lasting benifits. Amphetamines wash out of the system quickly, and aren't physically addicting. Only mentally addicting to people who'd also be addicted to gambling/etc, or abused by people who'd also abuse alcohol/etc. And as JD said, if you use any amphetamines, make sure to EAT and DRINK. It natrually supresses your hunger, but you still physically need to eat & drink. Research amphetamines and actors in the 50's and 60's...
To the people who think adhd is just an excuse for lazy unorganized people, go piss up a burning rope. You've probably spent less time researching it as I've spent fucking your mom. When someone has shit compartmentalized into a fine arangement of neatness, walks into their room, and absentmindedly takes their glasses off to rub their eye, and looks around to find they somehow lost their fucking glasses in a span of 5 seconds...CONSTANTLY...it's not being lazy or disorganized. When you have 3 notes in important places to remind you of something, and even wrote it on your hand, but still forget to do something, it's not being lazy or disorganized. When you get in your car with a list in your wallet, and forget where the hell you're going - and where you put your list - AND your goddamned wallet - it's not being lazy or disorganized.
It just plain sucks, that's what it is.You wouldn't tell someone who is missing both legs that he's lazy for not being able to roll himself up a flight of normal stairs, and you certainly wouldn't tell a mother of a downs syndrom child that she simply didn't try hard enough to teach the kid english or grammer. I have a problem and I deal with it the best I can, rarely do I ever tell people - use it as an excuse - that I have adhd.