I started taking Adderall in my sophomore year because everyone around me seemed to be doing it and I was drowning in deadlines. By junior year I couldn’t write a single sentence without it. By the time I graduated I wasn’t even sure who I was without the drug — my entire academic identity had been built around it. I found this centre through their college recovery program and honestly wasn’t sure a rehab centre would understand what it was like to be 22 and dependent on a study drug rather than something more obviously destructive. They understood completely. They assessed me for ADHD — which I had, undiagnosed, my entire life — built a recovery plan around my actual situation, and gave me the tools to rebuild my focus naturally. I’m in my first job now, eight months clean, and for the first time I can genuinely say that the person showing up to work every day is me — not a chemically assisted version of me.
