I am FINALLY going to be able to trial Adderall after taking a long break from meds and want to track how I’m doing daily. What do you do so that you can know the meds are having a positive/negative effect? What are the indicators you track?
Worksheets, your own indicators, apps, etc. would by great. I’m leaning towards making my own worksheet but idk what some of the most important things would be to keep track of.
24 – (time spent laying in bed doing “nothing”) + ( 0.25 × (time spent in bed “getting stuff done”) ) hours ≈ my indicator of how my meds are working. Higher is better. 0.25 is an arbitrary coefficient between 0 and 1 that I set based on vibes and plans; higher values decrease the importance of physically getting out bed.
Despite the formula…I’m too lazy to rigorously track this. I suppose you could do it with a spreadsheet or a few lines of Python. But this is the kind of calculation I make when I evaluate how my meds are working. And then during the psychiatrist appointment, I’ll roughly average the above formula using a vibes-weighted sum over a few weeks.
Today I’m at 0 😭
that’s really creative that you came up with a symptoms formula! But alas, I suck at math lol. I’m sorry you were at a 0 yesterday though, hope today was/is better!