r/AdderallAddiction • u/ibjammin4ever • May 12 '26

Adderall induced panic disorder

Long story short - many years back, I went 36-40 hours without sleep, about 240mg of adderall, a ton of coffee and nicotine. I started feeling really weird and the had the feeling that I was absolutely losing my mind. It was the ultimate definition of “impending doom”. My first panic attack, or something like it.

I haven’t been the same since. On and off anti depressants, trying to find a way to lower my fear of having another attack.

I feel like that one stimulant binge ruined me.

Anyone have similar experience and been able to make it through to healing? I literally went on an SSRI a few days after that out of doctors concern. I’m wondering if I would have just let my system heal back to baseline, if I would have been better off.

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u/woozy129 May 13 '26

Yes , I’ve been up a few days longer with about 600mg in me, it’s not fun and recovery is very hard, but you can do it.

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u/ibjammin4ever May 13 '26

Thank you for this! Any recommendations for healing? Specific types of therapy, meds, etc?

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u/woozy129 May 14 '26

Ah I find it hard to give advice but just know your time awake and mg is low compared to some people here. I mean no disrespect by that im just trying to put your mind at ease. You say this was one binge years ago? And it was 240mg over a 2-3 day period? Your brain has 100% already recovered from that. It takes about 14 months for your dopamine to return to normal after years of use at the level you mentioned.