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# The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir

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The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir

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## Customer Reviews

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    Enthralling portrait of addiction and depression
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2018*

For Stephen Elliott, living requires writing. In this enthralling portrait of addiction and depression, writing requires Adderall, prescribed by a psychiatrist who barely knows him. By age 12, Elliott had papered his walls with his poems: soon before he ran from his dad's angry outbursts and lived on the street, in and out of group homes. In The Adderall Diaries, he's a struggling writer, 35 years old, living in San Francisco.For a memoir written while the author abused an amphetamine, Elliott's voice remains refreshingly even. The emotional urgency of expressing pain, and the financial urgency of documenting a murder trial, keeps The Adderall Diaries friendly to readers of literary fiction and memoir rather than self-indulgent. It's only 208 pages, after all. The memoir's accessibility may speak to careful editing --- Elliott's attention to craft after he eased up on the Adderall --- the success of his coping skills while he wrote the book, or both.The author's voice speaks to the central drama of the book: not the murder trial or his brief masochistic relationships, but rather his struggle to live. By using the trial and relationships as coping strategies, he avoided sinking into anhedonia. This inability to feel pleasure could have led to abusing harder drugs as Elliott did during his teenage years, and thus another heroin overdose, or following his friends into suicide as he felt drawn to do when off Adderall. Yet he remains alive and writing.His personal life continues to suffer as he ups his dose and snorts it near the end of the book. But by following the murder trial to the end, he cuts back on the drug and reconciles with his father.Elliott doesn't set out to shock, including mundane anecdotes like working for a tech startup in addition to the darker, more sensational parts. Hence The Adderall Diaries have humor: the flat irony of a comedy of errors. Through it all, prose that hangs together emerges: even empathy with other writers who struggled with depression and amphetamine addiction. A must-read.

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    Definitely liked this book
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2022*

I liked this book and look forward to reading other works by the author. I saw the movie years ago, and although the movie was disappointing, I had always wanted to read the book.

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    Some parts very good, others overdone
  

*by A***E on Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2017*

Stephen Elliott certainly was ambitious in writing The Adderall Diaries. I had mixed reactions:I completely related to the writing struggles, still don't have any interest in BDSM, and found the true crime aspects fascinating.As were some of the Adderall comments.  I agree with Elliott that speed is speed; but also that Adderall is or has been in the past extremely helpful for my focus during episodes of ADD or whatever it was/is.I have to admit to being somewhat bored by forced, hard driving prose--OK we get it, tough childhood.  Someone mentions James Frey's A Million Little Pieces mixed with  Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.  I agree with the comparison.The Adderall Diaries memoir aspects seem at times to be more like semi-novelization, but Elliott is making a good point about memory and how it plays tricks, distorting recollection.

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