
120 ADHD Medications with Dr. Russell Barkley
I Have ADHD Podcast
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How to Deal With ADHD and Social Anxiety
Amphetamines are known in some people, not most people, but some to exacerbate anxiety. Methophanidae can do it too, but amphetamines being more potent can do it even worse. People with high blood pressure, people who have had heart surgery or something like that, you wouldn't want a drug that's pushing up their blood pressure and heart rate under those risk scenarios. You could turn to the anti-heperattensive drugs, which don't raise blood pressure. They actually lower it. One of the side effects is lightheadedness. And often adults with ADHD don't have clinical depression. What they are demoralized by chronic failure.
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