SWIM has been reading posts on this website for some time. He has been slowly abusing Adderall more and more without knowing how much of a toll it is taken on him. SWIM will take it for two days, way above his script, not sleep for a night and then feel paranoid and tired the whole next day. He feels depressed when he is not on the drug, binge eating, feeling very unmotivated and antisocial. At first Adderall worked great, helped him with his studies and made him calmer around people, but now has become an addiction. He can barely go a day without taking it. He can't remember what he was like off of it, and is afraid that it will have detrimental effects for a long time. Depression and lack of motivation effected him before he started taking it. That was two years ago, and he can't believe where the time has gone. And so, he is stopping today but was wondering if if anyone knew how long it wil take before he is back to his old self? Is the depression and binge eating a result of the drug withdrawal? Any help would be appreciated very much