There's no free lunch. You can take stimulants to improve things for a while, but eventually it doesn't do much.
As for prescribing speed, doctors in America do it all the time, doctors in Europe rarely do. They're both high qualified doctors. That tells you all you need to know.
Have you tried diet, exercise, upping your magnesium intake? These tend to be more effective and longer lasting. Apart from that you probably just need to start setting goals. Think about what you care about enough to get up off your ass and do something about it. Everyone has something, it's just matter of finding it. Your brain/habits/motivation system is broken in some way, but not irreparably given that you've succeeded before. Everyone has their drawbacks. You can usually figure out a way around them if you want to.
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Originally Posted by BenT07891
2. I'm addiction-prone...not to drugs but activities, in particular poker and certain videogames.
Poker and video games could easily be your problem. You never get bored enough to actually get off your ass when you can always escape into a different world. As discipline training, try setting certain days or even weeks when you don't turn on the computer. Allow yourself to become mad with boredom without your electronics. Boredom is a great motivator, a powerful creative and organizing force, and modern electronics have largely robbed us of it. Poker is the worst as it ties into real world success ("making money"), so you can delude yourself into thinking you're doing something sane/for your future when in reality you're just being unhealthy.
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