Re: I need a little advice here

Posted by Ryan (129.237.110.207) on December 06, 2002 at 17:35:37:

In Reply to: I need a little advice here posted by goomba (66.189.43.252) on December 06, 2002 at 15:03:07:

It's a testament to the power of modern pharmaceuticals that a drug can have such an effect on personality as to completely alter it. My advice is to stay a 7, get bad grades, drop out of college and start your own business in some kind of hobby you are interested in. Hire some 1 or 5 accountant to do the thinking for you. You'll be rich in no time.

Ryan

> Lets say you were a definate 7 when you were younger, like up until around 14 or 15, and you had every characteristic of a 7, being really really hyper and somewhat a 9 in being a happy person overall, then realized how your grades were suffering due to your lack of attention span, and eventually ended up being "diagnosed" with A.D.D. and started taking medication for it. After about a few months your personality shifts 100% from a happy and hyper 7 to a sedated and isolated 5 who starts to get a 4.0 gpa and all good marks in school. Although your normally friendly and happy personatily is almost gone, you realize how easily it is for you to get good grades and stay focused on just about anything. You also start acting completely as a 5 while on the medicine, until the weekend when you don't take it, and become a 7 again. Although it seems like the medication wouldn't change personalities so drastically, in this case it makes you feel like Jekyll and Hyde, with a split personality.
> Now for the actual help here. With all those conditions and knowing you feel like 2 different people in one, what do you do later on in life? College is coming up, and there is such a difference in what each "personality" wants, so how would I decide what to do? Its either take the medicine and become a fairly unhappy person who constantly wants to be alone, but will maintain a quality job quite easily and be much more understanding and under control as a 5... or, stop taking it, become a text-book 7, never get any good grades, probably not do well at all in college, probably barely maintain a good career, but be happy, my natural self, and much more social. And also that there really isn't a gray area, just black and white, and it's one or the other. I need some advice here, or what you would do in the situation. gracias.

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