the other thing u don’t see being talked about so idk if it’s a common experience is how the calmness and clarity can also make you remember stuff you had blocked away from the past because it was so traumatic   i too have been surprising my wife as i never used to be emotional but one year on being on medication has been a fucking whirlwind because im learning so much about myself my traumatic past and tbh i don’t think i was ready for it and it has been difficult to navigate while i’m having the most stressful work year of my life and while having lost family in the pandemic  im changing up my therapy but i wasn’t ready to deal with the trauma yet because my childhood was so fucked up my own sister told me that when i chose to dealt with it to go in sabbatical from work because she had a breakdown and she’s nt so that being a side effect of the medication i was not expecting i think my adhd brain was protecting me by allowing that experience to blend and hide and being on meds has really brought up certain memories made me more aware of how others perceive me ie i had no idea it was so fucking difficult to understand me and others shit like that   sometimes i feel like ignorance was bliss and i wish i hadn’t been on meds yet