Better Living Through Chemistry vs Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure

Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure is the shorter watch at 56m compared with 1h 27m. Better Living Through Chemistry is the older of the two (2021 against 2025). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Better Living Through Chemistry posterBetter Living Through Chemistry2021 VS Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure posterBeyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure2025
Better Living Through ChemistryBeyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure
Audience score★ 0.0/10★ 10.0/10
Year20212025
Length1h 27m56m
GenresDocumentaryAdventure, Documentary
Country–United Kingdom
DirectorConnie LittlefieldRyan Lovejoy
Main castAnn Shulgin, Alexander Shulgin, Tania Manning, Greg Manning, Brian Perry–

Synopsis

Better Living Through Chemistry

In the 1970s, Dr. Alexander “Sasha” Shulgin significantly contributed to the development and psychopharmaceutical use of MDMA: a catalyst to personal doors entombed or unknown. His widow, co-author, and research partner, Ann—alongside friends, family, and colleagues—gives a guided tour of their life and laboratory, reflecting on how risks and revelations opened a world of compound enlightenment. Stippled with spirituality, sadness, and…

Beyond Limits: Into the ADHD Mind: Rising Above Failure

Recently diagnosed with ADHD, Simon Blair confronts self-doubt and past failures in the grueling Marathon des Sables. As the desert tests his mind and body, can he turn his diagnosis into an advantage or will it hold him back?

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