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Visiting my husband's home town where this has happened and all his parent's friends have moved into trailers because the houses where they raised their kids were bought for insane amounts but then they couldn't afford a smaller house in the same town. Where we live now on the East Coast, we can no longer stay in our school district for less than half a million because doctors from larger urban areas keep buying the houses in our school district and we're being forced 60+100 miles out from my hometown where we raised our young kids to even begin to afford housing.

I'm happy to report Straterra leaves me personally totally intact. I get a little more bored on the weekends but otherwise feel fine. I only drink socially but so far Alcohol presents no issues. I'm a full-time stoner and I haven't noticed any differences in my Cannabis effects. I do smoke just a little less because I'm a little more focused during the day but it's not a big difference.

I got off stimulants 20 years ago because I hated feeling like I was 'either on or off' and Straterra has given me a steady middle ground that's supremely pleasant. I was very against meds but after I hit 40 and was working from home over pandemic my symptoms just weren't manageable any more and Straterra helped immensely.

I've been on Straterra for about 18 months.

You do need to take it every day because the drug builds up in your system over about 3 weeks to the correct levels. It adjusts how much of your norepinephrine gets reused and so it takes some time to take full effect. I also was in the habit of only taking stims on work days and this will not work for that, it needs some time.

The biggest side effect I or anyone I know has had is some lightheadedness right before my next dose. I ended up getting split doses 12 hours apart but you can also bump the dose up to avoid this, I've been told.

Compared to stimulants, I prefer the steadyness of Straterra. I don't wake up in a panic state every morning, I think thought a problem first before a knee-jerk reaction sets in, and I can focus on my work without being constantly side-tracked, and I still feel like "myself" and can engage in my creative work day after day in a sustainable way.

Best of luck to you!

Toddlers don't eat very much. I feeding a family of four including two teens. My point is that while individual foods are cheap, a balanced diet is still expensive, especially the foods for growing children. Milk, eggs, fresh produce, unprocessed meats, all are significantly more expensive than they were 5 years ago. Hell, even uncooked rice is up to $1/pound.

When milk of $5+ a gallon in most of the country, the solution isn't as simple as "cook at home" for those of us with a family to feed. Young Americans don't mean just 24 year olds.

Liquid Death isn't even caffeinated. They have a line of iced teas that have caffeine from the tea but their main flavors are all water or seltzer.

Who really has living expenses low enough to be saving 20% of their income for retirement right now?

Would have gotten us both mental health drugs and therapy way sooner. Would have had some honest conversations way sooner than we had them. We wouldn't spend nearly so much time angsting about making other people, especially our parents, happy around the wedding itself because a lot of those things didn't matter in the long term but took away from our enjoyment of the event for our sake.

Only here for everyone else who got Ace of Base's "Wheel of Fortune" stuck in their head after this post.

Yeah, Baldur’s Gate 3 for certain. Shadowheart, Astariaon and Wyll, left to right. The red icon mean Wyll has 70% chance to hit with that Eldritch Blast.

I was at a party with a bunch of friends getting pumped of a night of partying and the news stopped the party completely. Killed the vibe and we had a quiet night in. It was erie how it affected people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin

If you know, you know. This one hit hard.

Source on his being innocent? I don't remember that being even likely given the evidence, but it's been like 35 years so I'm curious what came to light.

Being a non-smoker back then was a giant pain-in-the-ass at any workplace too because any smoker could and would take a break for a cigarette once an hour and then so would the manager and they'd get to be buddies but if you were known as a non-smoker you didn't get a break because you "didn't need one" I knew dozens of people, especially in healthcare, who took up smoking because that was the time to be social with each other and the managers.

All y'all getting preachy about "don't", think about how our society treats alcohol and then tell me how drugs are different enough to be "bad" when alcohol is legal and widespread. Everyone should be free to choose their intoxicants for themselves.

These are common in Microsoft Surface stylus and my Kobo Elipsa pen uses them but I'd never heard of them until 2021.

The town's population is only 20% white, not the mayor.

They were like this about the Epic V Google suit too. their legal reporting team is over-the-top.

I just came off 15 years at Outlook companies to a Google everything office and I love not having Outlook for any reason. It's so nice. Just hearing the alert noise would raise my blood pressure after awhile.