Randomosity

After 2 years of this I asked myself "How could I have let this happen? How did I not see the red flags? How did it get this far?" And it hit me. He treated exactly the same way my adults treated me when I was a child. I didn't see any red flags because I'd never been treated any differently. I'd be screamed at for being lazy, if I wanted anything then I was selfish. I was physically intimidated to make me behave. My emotions were "dramatic", and if I complained at all I heard the "everything I do for you" speech. He treated me exactly the way id always been treated and I didn't even recognize it as abuse until I wanted to kill myself about it.

That realization changed my life. Its a big part of why I work with children now. Parents sometimes hate when I say this but you need to treat your children how you would want their future partners to treat them. They are going to use their relationship with you as the blueprint for every other relationship in their life.

And it keeps them safe *now* as well. People who groom children are able to do so easily because many children havent experienced an adult be kind to them before. All the predators need to do is treat them like a person for a bit and of course they seem safe and friendly. If you treat your children with respect and kindness then their uncle or babysitter or whoever is gonna have a harder time gaining their trust and getting close to them because their tactics don't work if the child already expects to be treated like a person. Plus if your child feels safe and respected most of the time the moment someone makes them feel unsafe they can immediately know this isnt right and they will trust you to fix it.

They were never heard from again. 11 people vanished, apparently along with their plane, and the only clue is that last word.

You'll have a sandwich

yea lol

For a long fucking time

with why my adderall was having such uneven effects and varying efficacy

and the weird pattern of what made it work and not work and if it was building up in my system or not

and fucking nobody told me I shouldn’t drink a glass of Kool-Aid to take the pills with

or eat fucking Pop-Tarts or Life cereal

this is the most useful information I have ever received from tubr and it seems to be confirmed by several other places upon searching

PS: Citrus affects SO MANY other drugs as well. Check your info sheet, or go online for contraindications and drug reaction info.

Be aware that a lot of this stuff is 1. Still actively being studied; and 2. Dependent on a variety of factors, including dosages and genetics.

Also, neutralize is a rather hyperbolic choice of word. Current studies indicate that some fruits and fruit juices can reduce the efficacy of certain drugs. Also for some drugs it actually causes an inverse reaction where it results in too much of the drug entering the bloodstream, thereby causing toxicity.

By FDA graphic by Michael J. Ermarth - Author; Kaidor - Vectorization. - Own work based on: Grapefruit Juice and Medicine May Not Mix, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=122098363

(Yes the above image is about grapefruit juice. Grapefruit happens to be the fruit this interaction was first discovered with and the one currently most studied.)

To suggest that a glass of orange juice can completely negate the affects of stimulant medication is disingenuous at best and downright misinformation at worst. It’d be more accurate to say that taking your meds with orange juice might make them less effective, thereby necessitating a higher dose for an equivalent effect than if you only ever drank water.

Finally, nothing I have found indicates it is the citric acid causing this effect. It seems to be a completely unrelated type of molecule, enzymes called furanocoumarins. These enzymes seem to bind to certain enzymes in the liver and/or intestines (Cytochrome P450) which in turn can — again, increase or decrease depending on the drug — affect how readily some medications are absorbed into the body.

That said, I’m no chemist, much less a doctor. Frankly a lot of the technical and detailed scientific explanations sailed right over my head. Bringing us back to the original point.

TL;DR - Talk to the people prescribing your medications and/or the people filling those prescriptions about any concerns you have about potential interactions between different drugs, your diet, or other lifestyle factors you suspect could be having an effect.

Anyone on the internet could be wrong, lying, or trying to sell you something. Especially so on one of the last remaining websites with any sense of anonymity. Double especially so in this, the era of AI slop.

Please talk to a real person in real life about this stuff.