Depends on what you’re looking and/or hoping to gain. Also depends on if you have add/adhd or not. I can speak to its effects from the adhd standpoint.
Works really well, but definitely has it’s drawbacks. I’d suggest looking into Vyvanse, personally and strictly from a performance-enhancing perspective.
Adderall will do the same thing as Vyvanse EXCEPT… you’ll near certainly get a significantly stronger sensation of euphoria and a false sense of productivity, in my experience.
Adderall is essentially Vyvanse with the differences being that Vyvanse contains a chemical that converts through digestion into l-amphetamine, Adderall supply’s this directly.
The other difference is that Adderall doesn’t just contain l-amphetamine. It also contains d-amphetamine. Coupled; the effects are much stronger and euphoric with Adderall.
Nonetheless, at the end of the day Adderall is about as close to pharmaceutical meth as you can get. With that in mind, it would be unwise to treat it any differently. There’s a reason it comes with a black box warning.
I prefer Vyvanse because it’s longer-acting and much more concentration and focus oriented. There’s still a subtle euphoria to it when you first take them, but it’s more than likely not going to lead to any potential cravings. Just like the nicotine suggestions in this thread, just be cognizant and aware.
The one thing I’ll say with both is to make sure you regularly take a mental inventory of what you’re doing and make sure it’s still what you need to be doing, if that makes sense. Tunnel vision is a very real thing with both of these and is fantastic, but can also run you down a rabbit hole if you decide to take a 30 second pause to watch a YouTube video or visit the forum. All of a sudden that 30sec break turned into 30min!
Hope that gives some insight
Also, my personal addition to the thread!!
L-theanine and Caffeine (preferably both measured and in their natural form)
Needs to be a 1:2 ratio, Caffeine:L-Theanine ratio
(To find a good starting metric and to accommodate for what most people will want to do, look up avg. amount of caffeine in the type of tea you drink. And for coffee drinkers, each cup you drink has an avg. of 80-100mg caffeine. If you drink only one cup in the morning, you’d want to try something like 100mg caffeine:200mg L-Theanine).
This is the most safe, basic, and wonderfully subtle and effective nootropic combination. This combo is essentially why Green Tea works so well for providing a balanced degree of energy and focus.
The caffeine provides the mental jolt and the L-Theanine can be thought of as a “smoother” for caffeine’s lesser-desired effects like jitters, anxiousness, too much mental or physical stimulation, etc.!
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