Rest in peace to all the college dudes covering the whole syllabus within 24 hours of the exam
[1] https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/how_to_take_ritalin_...
1. Ritalin, and other stimulants are not cognition enhancing for non-ADHD adults and may in fact do the opposite.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/smart-drugs-can-decrease...
2. > Because the doctor will rigorously apply artificial and unreliable diagnostic categories backed up by invalid and arbitrary screens and queries to make a diagnosis. So after this completely subjective and near useless evaluation is completed, your doctor should be able to exercise prudent clinical judgment to decide if Ritalin could be of benefit.
What else can you do for psychiatric conditions? We don't have a magic ADHD-o-meter but know that it statistically impacts lifespan, health, etc. Even for more objective measures like blood glucose, BP, BMI, clinical interventions are based on discrete thresholds that don't exist in nature.
That, or maybe try a laxative.
(Man, if ever there was a time I wanted emoji support on HN, this is it!)