What do you all think about medicating for ADD

I used to take medication for ADD when I was younger. I stopped taking medication when I was in middle school. I felt like I did fine for highschool without medicating for it. I thought for a while that I might not have actually had ADD and that it was just a poor diagnosis when I was young. But I was talking about it to one of my friends the other day and our discussion made me think that I might not really know much about ADD and that I might have only thought that I didn't actually have it because of a lack of information on it.

But that's a different topic all together. What I'm really curious about is what you all think about medicating for it. I've never liked the idea of relying on medication for mental problems because I've always had this idea that it kinda supreses your mind. But again I don't know much about this stuff so I was curious what people that have more experience/knowledge about it think. Would you say that it helps and should be taken or do you think it's not necessary and that its something that could be learned to be handle without it.