ADD meds. (Depression meds were somewhat helpful when I was actually depressed, however.)
Are you actually diagnosed with ADD? I took it for granted that you were at first, but then it occurred to me that some people attempt to use these for augmentation above the baseline. This works better for some people than others, but it can be accompanied by some pretty serious side effects.
Personally, I consider halting the use of my ADD medication in my first year of college to be one of the most glaring failures of instrumental rationality in my life, particularly given that I already knew that in the past, medications had radically changed how they affected me after interruptions to consistent, regularly applied dosage, so I did not have good reason to suppose I could go back to it if I felt it was necessary.
Are you actually diagnosed with ADD? I took it for granted that you were at first, but then it occurred to me that some people attempt to use these for augmentation above the baseline. This works better for some people than others, but it can be accompanied by some pretty serious side effects.
Personally, I consider halting the use of my ADD medication in my first year of college to be one of the most glaring failures of instrumental rationality in my life, particularly given that I already knew that in the past, medications had radically changed how they affected me after interruptions to consistent, regularly applied dosage, so I did not have good reason to suppose I could go back to it if I felt it was necessary.
Yes, I have been diagnosed with ADD.