I am by no means a Doctor, my recommendation to those who can’t get Adderall, get out and exercise, take a walk, jog around the block, do something to get your heart rate up and perhaps work up a sweat.
Change your diet, cut out fast food, start cooking real food, eat more fruit and vegetables, basically eliminate food with additives and preservatives and eat a balanced diet.
Start on a routine of vitamins, get more sleep if possible and watch what happens, for many people they will start to feel great and don’t need the crutch of Adderall.
Excellent recommendations.
Diet is critical, IMO.
There are many food sensitivities that can get a kid labeled as ADD/ADHD.
My son is very sensitive to artificial vanilla flavoring. Whenever he got it he would go into high gear and bounce off the walls to the point where he would be flushed red in the face and sweat soaked.
No doubt on a public school diet he would have been unmanageable and on drugs.
At home, whenever he got antsy, I would let him go outside and burn off the energy splitting wood. Of course, during swim team season, that was unnecessary. Nightly practice and meets on weekends kept all the kids much easier to deal with, although they did eat us out of house and home.
But a week after swim team was over,....... sigh.....
Physical activity is way underrated in considering a child’s behavior issues.
I don't remember eating fast food for years. Wow! Maybe that is a Covid-19 vector that I unintentionally avoided.