{"id":31,"date":"2008-09-17T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/be-all-that-you-can-be-and-then-some\/"},"modified":"2008-09-17T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T01:28:00","slug":"be-all-that-you-can-be-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/mind-brain\/be-all-that-you-can-be-and-then-some\/","title":{"rendered":"Be All That You Can Be, And Then Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834236afb53ef010534adcc25970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ritalin_o\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d834236afb53ef010534adcc25970b \" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834236afb53ef010534adcc25970b-150wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 145px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>&#160;I first took Ritalin in first grade. I went off it soon after but tried it again in high school and have been reliant upon it and other psychoactive medications for the last 14 years&#8211;nearly half my life. Do i feel artificial? Do I feel like I&#39;m cheating? Do I feel like I&#39;m not being the real me? Those aren&#39;t even questions I ask myself anymore. After much experimentation with various molecules and dosages and life situations, I&#39;ve made peace with my drug dependence, and now when pondering a prescription refill or an individual pill in my hand, instead of asking which me is the real me&#8211;chemically modified or au natural&#8211;I ask which me I prefer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the popularity of caffeine and alcohol, not everyone feels the same, and new research (that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/articles\/pto-20080719-000002.html\" target=\"_blank\">covered<\/a> in the August issue of <em>Psychology Today<\/em>) maps out our fears regarding artificial cognitive enhancement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/brainstorm\/200809\/be-all-that-you-can-be-and-then-some\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading this post at Brainstorm.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;I first took Ritalin in first grade. I went off it soon after but tried it again in high school and have been reliant upon it and other psychoactive medications for the last 14 years&#8211;nearly half my life. Do i feel artificial? Do I feel like I&#39;m cheating? Do I feel like I&#39;m not being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,34,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-mind-brain","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}