TreasureVibe
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Hey all, my girlfriend suffers from ADHD and she takes 30 mg of methylphenidate for it everyday, and she has been taking it since childhood. She's 18 now. She hears voices telling her to harm herself, harm me and me housemate. Actual commands. When she is alone, she hears these voices the most intense. The voices are in her own sound of voice. It's 2 voices, sometimes more. They also tell her sometimes to not trust me and that I'm using her. Her therapist said the voices are made by herself and that it's because some brain chemical is made in her brain. Her brother was also on methylphenidate and suffered from hearing voices, the voices stopped completely when he stopped the methylphenidate.
I gave her magnesium glycinate 250 mg yesterday and she felt weak in her body and dizzy. She even fell from the stairs due to her dizziness but she didn't get hurt. She says she has had dizziness in the past every month for a week. But in the 2 months we've been together she didn't have dizziness at all.
What can she do? The doctors don't want her to taper off from it because she's still emotionally unstable. She is not that emotionally unstable imo but the doctors think otherwise. The pharmacy told her that indeed hearing voices are a side effect of taking methylphenidate. She's not on any other drug and she has no history of schizophrenia or psychosis nor in her family.
Thank you
I gave her magnesium glycinate 250 mg yesterday and she felt weak in her body and dizzy. She even fell from the stairs due to her dizziness but she didn't get hurt. She says she has had dizziness in the past every month for a week. But in the 2 months we've been together she didn't have dizziness at all.
What can she do? The doctors don't want her to taper off from it because she's still emotionally unstable. She is not that emotionally unstable imo but the doctors think otherwise. The pharmacy told her that indeed hearing voices are a side effect of taking methylphenidate. She's not on any other drug and she has no history of schizophrenia or psychosis nor in her family.
Thank you
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