Recently started stimulant medication at a low dose to help with suspected ADHD. My mood has greatly improved, and I feel infinitely calmer and less anxiety-ridden and emotionally volatile. But at the moment, I still have no motivation to finish my very overdue midterm and finals (I'm 26 and in college). I've never handed in extremely late work like this. I feel as if the anxiety and paranoia before meds drove me to see things through at the last minute because I feared consequences, and now that factor is gone. I am still not motivated, still easily distracted and avoidant of my responsibilities. I still dread starting my work and am afraid of failure, but I would have started and finished it by now before starting medication. Is this truly a fault of my personality, that I'm not driven? Because I do have very high standards for myself, but I can never execute what I want to do. It feels like meds are only solving half of my problem which is the mood piece. Will it get better?
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