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Does Adderall Cause Personality Alteration?

My daughter is 35 & in grad school to be a speech pathologist. She began taking adrenal this spring semester . I have seen a drastic change in her personality. She is anxious, has a lot of parotid thinking ( worries continually what others are thinking about her& & has numbers intoes & fingers. Most days her toes are blue when she gets of work or school. Could this be contributed to adderall,
Fri, 5 Jan 2018
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Yes, adderall is given in order to cause personality alteration. Amphetamine (in the NON-ADD population!) classically causes anxiety and paranoid thinking (see, "tweeking").
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Does Adderall Cause Personality Alteration?

Yes, adderall is given in order to cause personality alteration. Amphetamine (in the NON-ADD population!) classically causes anxiety and paranoid thinking (see, tweeking ).