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submitted 17 hours ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I vape. It is helpful. I've quit a couple times,and it's correlated with suicidal thoughts. (I hesitate to claim it is casual, but definitely correlated.)

Stimulants help with ADHD symptoms. Adderall is chemically similar to speed.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you suspect the link is connected to your ADHD? Could the suicidal thoughts not just stem from nicotine withdrawal?

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

To widen the anecdotal data set, I have ADHD and have been using nicotine since I was 16 (29 now). I quit for ~8 months a few years back by making my own vape juice and tapering my nicotine dose down over a period of several months. I never experienced withdrawal symptoms, but my mental health tanked on lower doses and it got even worse when I was completely off nicotine. I was way more irritable, impatient, scatterbrained, and depressed. It was not fun