Adderall and Our Addiction to Self-Optimization
How the misuse of Adderall reveals a deeper illness
One of the central theses of You Are Not Your Own is the idea that everyone has some kind of coping mechanism they use to “get through the day” in a fundamentally inhuman environment. Society places on our shoulders the unbearable burden of self-creation, including the obligation to discover an identity and define our purp…
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