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        <title><![CDATA[Cat Marnell celebrates two years of being off Adderall]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cat Marnell needed to leave New York to get clean.</p><p>The &#8220;<strong>How to Murder Your Life</strong>&#8221; author, 37, announced on Instagram Wednesday that she hasn&#8217;t taken Adderall in two years, and told Page Six it&#8217;s because she left the city.</p><p>&#8220;Physical distance from my doctors in New York helped the most. I loved my psychiatrist; he was so kind. He was forty thousand years old, up on East 79th Street,&#8221; she told us via email, &#8220;but he gave me anything I wanted.</p><p>&#8220;I traveled the world for 3 years and that finally got me away from him,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never called his number again.&#8221;</p><p>Marnell has been extremely candid with her struggles with substance abuse — she once copped to snorting heroin and taking a Xanax before passing out in a bath — but asserted she doesn&#8217;t miss Adderall at all.</p><p>&#8220;You gotta dump a drug like you dump a man and never look back. Adderall was my abusive boyfriend,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I was obsessed. I was going to get a crack rock glazed and set and wear it like a diamond ring!</p><p>&#8220;Now I&#8217;m out of my ugly 18-year relationship; I&#8217;m replacing all that.&#8221;</p><p>Marnell has been &#8220;replacing&#8221; her addiction with human contact, choosing to hang out with new people every day, including those she might meet on dating app Raya.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great to be in New York, surrounded by media and art world friends. I miss having co-workers! And I&#8217;m dating,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for a therapist for the first time to help me with my &#8216;human connection&#8217; problems.&#8221;</p><p>Though Marnell has dropped the prescription drug prescribed for attention deficit disorder,&nbsp;she played coy when asked if she&#8217;s <strong>totally sober</strong>.</p><p>&#8220;I believe the poet Rumi said, &#8216;Out beyond crippling addiction and 12-step recovery, there is a field. I will meet you there.&#8217;&#8221;</p><p>In that field, Marnell found time to write her next book, &#8220;The Bored and the Beautiful,&#8221; which will be a creative nonfiction collection of autobiographical essays.</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m writing my Fantasia; I&#8217;m writing &#8216;My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,&#8217;&#8221; a reference to Kanye West&#8217;s album.</p><p>&#8220;The Bored and the Beautiful&#8221; will detail Marnell&#8217;s 30s — her self-described &#8220;successful time&#8221; after her career launched.</p><p>&#8220;My weird years in Tribeca when I lived next to David Blaine&#8217;s magic studio &#8230; when I kept falling down the stairs of my Cortlandt Alley loft,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I go to Art Basel&#8230;two jungle rehabs in Thailand&#8230; Biarritz [France]&#8230; Riff Raff is in it.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s chick lit <em>noir</em>.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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