The hoops I have to jump through for a prescription I’ve been on for multiple years is ridiculous. My insurance will wrongly think I’ve filled it at a CVS I sent the script to hoping they’d have it in stock and then I sometimes end up paying out of pocket because otherwise I am exhausted all day and have limited capacity to do tasks.
The meds themselves have dramatically improved my life by being more capable of getting tasks and work done. Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.
> Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.
Talk to your prescribing psych about this. More, but smaller, doses throughout the day may be a way around this. Diet and changing when I medicate helped me a ton. I got another few hours per day out of my meds just by splitting the medication up and administering every few hours, timed just before/after lunch.
You do still need to acknowledge / accept that the medication can't be a 24x7/forever cure though; that crash back to sub-optimal levels of function and abundant distractability is inevitable :(.
That's not what you want to hear I guess. But Adderall has a dirty crash, using pure Dextroamphetamine and not one of this mix pills makes the crash more bearable and less tiring
They also shredded him for wearing a tan suit. We’re living in absolutely insane times. I have no faith the Republicans will do anything meaningful to reduce the spending, as they’ve historically done the opposite. But who knows? Maybe they will this time if only to cement the death of democracy in America.
Yes, and then Trump destroyed the Bush dynasty in one debate and took over the party: https://youtu.be/H4ThZcq1oJQ?si=I-mDaVGGMjsMngo9. To the point where Jeb’s son couldn’t even win the nomination for Texas AG, and Cheney’s daughter was thrown out of Congress.
“Television, he always said, is inhuman to children because it gives them answers to questions they never asked. It did this for purposes of control.” From the article - Wow
If you don’t give them the answer they might have a moment where they discover something on their own.
“There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.” J. Robert Oppenheimer (I read this quote today in the book, the medium is the massage, by McLuhan.)
lol, that quote reminds me of the FAQs that companies put on the website about their products. "uncomfortable" faqs are either not posted, or are answered very carefully (or non-answered).
Postwar by Tony Judt. Published in 2005, it covers 1945 Postwar Europe to ~2005. Good coverage of not just the major Western European countries like the UK, Germany, and France, but attention is paid to the Eastern European countries and Soviet Union. The US of course comes into the picture at parts, but the book is firmly focused on Europe. I found the economic development, political attitudes and party shifts, and the coverage of the Soviet Union and countries behind the iron curtain.
I am looking for a follow up and may read Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, Stalin by Kotkin, or The Free World by Mendand. Suggestions appreciated
To ~howlgarnish’s point, this is how I got my most recent promotion and it was very much a case of myself and my direct manager arguing against an opaque HR/Payroll team who generally didn’t approve promotions. no egos to damage in our immediate area by pushing hard.
The biggest issue we encountered was arbitrary requirements in the paper documentation of the role we were aiming to move me into, including a ‘hard’ requirement for an engineering degree with honours, which suddenly became less of an issue when the argument was ‘im going to accept another role but you can match it with x salary and title’ in a polite discussion with department head.
This will only apply to very large companies though, ymmv.
In larger companies management, HR and compensation are all separate teams, and a decent manager will be negotiating "with" you and "against" the other two to get your salary match.
I recommend a novel called Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips that is set on Kamchatka and a good amount in Petropavlovsk. It is very much not a wilderness survival book, but more of a mystery and social commentary book.
The meds themselves have dramatically improved my life by being more capable of getting tasks and work done. Main downside is the drop off around 8/9pm when I become really tired and unfocused.