There’s an interesting meta-analysis of the antidepressant effects of endogenous neuromodulators that I have read. I’ll spare you all the details but it found a number of supplements that appear to have good effect as antidepressants. Of them, the most readily available ones they mentioned were Vitamin C and creatine.

For vitamin C, you’re looking at a dose of around 500-1000mg per day although you could go higher on this with minimal concern. At high doses you might have an upset stomach especially if you go too hard too soon on it but aside from that there’s little else to worry about.

For creatine you’re looking at a dose of around 5-10mg per day. The same applies as above. There’s really no need to go higher than 10mg though and you’d probably just waste money by pushing the dose higher than that.

While N-acetyl cysteine is not endogenous nor a part of this study, there’s some evidence that around 1000-2000mg per day may also have antidepressant effects. This is another supplement that has the same caveats as above.

For OTC anxiolytics a few stand out: kava (I’d recommend against taking kava whole and instead preparing an extract in water especially if you’re planning on using it regularly and making the most of the potential reverse tolerance effect), L-theanine, valerian (I’d veer away from taking this daily and it’s something that would be better taken occasionally or for a few consecutive days here and there). I’m really partial to damiana but that’s a bit harder to get and I have ADHD so the effects of it on me may be less common. Kratom has an anxiolytic effect at higher doses and I am extremely partial towards it although I’d recommend some caution with it as it’s possible to develop an addiction to it so it’s another thing that would be best used occasionally rather than daily if you did opt for this.

Definitely be careful with lithium. If you have kidney problems or you suspect that you do then avoid it.

If you’re taking small, subclinical doses though I’d say go for it - there are a couple of papers that I’m aware of which have studied regions where a domestic water supply has a higher naturally-occurring amount of lithium. We’re talking about miniscule amounts because if it was high enough to be a problem then it would cause problems or it wouldn’t be deemed safe for drinking.

What was found in the papers was that after controlling for variables, the rates of suicides in the region where lithium was higher in the water supply had significantly lower suicide rates that nearby regions whose water supply didn’t have lithium in it.

It would be really interesting if there was research done into very low, subclinical doses of lithium for people with chronic mental illness across a range of symptoms because I’d love to see what the results would be.

Some psychiatrists are prescribing buproprion and DXM under separate scripts but in the same dosages as Auvelity to achieve the exact same outcome.

DXM will still work on its own, without bupropion, but it won’t be nearly as effective as an antidepressant.

Just wanted to finish this off with some basic advice that wouldn’t fit within the character limit of the last comment:

It’s really hard for victims of abuse to reach out, and it’s even harder for victims of abuse to leave their situation. Try to be patient, non-judgmental, and understanding. If you feel yourself becoming frustrated or impatient, step back and detach from it so you can refresh and then reengage when you have the capacity to do so from a place of compassion and patience. You don’t want to feed into her feelings of shame, guilt, and helplessness because you are slipping into impatience or a judgemental attitude as this will risk compounding the problem.

It’s important to try and approach every interaction from a place of building the empowerment of the victim. You cannot always do this but there’s a trap that can emerge where a person who has experienced significant victimisation relies on others to rescue them or to tell them what to do. While it’s important that she gets out of this situation, it’s also really important that she doesn’t adopt a mentality where she relies on others to tell her what she has to do and what is right and wrong - this may be fine if she is surrounded by people who only have the most principled adherence to ethics and her best interests in mind for the rest of her life but this is the real world we’re talking about and she’s going to encounter predators again in the future, so you want to encourage her to trust in herself and to rely on her judgement and her own autonomy so that if she ever finds herself being drawn into a situation like this in the future, she won’t just do what someone else tells her and she won’t count on others to tell her what is okay. Replacing malicious control over an adult victim with benevolent control just sets them up for the next person who wants to have malicious control over them. It sounds like tough love, and I guess in some ways it is, but try to adopt the grandma approach - believe in her, encourage her, celebrate every achievement no matter how small, recognise the effort she puts in even if things don’t turn out, when she encounters failure encourage her to keep at it, and especially allow her the dignity of risk.

Utilise counselling and support services yourself. Depending on how close you are to her and what services are available, a lot of DV oriented services offer support for friends and family members. Use them if they are available. They will help guide you to ensure that you are providing support in the right ways, that you aren’t causing unintentional harm, and if you are getting burnt out or you are getting drawn into a codependent sort of arrangement they’ll be able to help you spot it and to take steps to step out of this pattern. It might not feel like you are worthy or high enough priority for you to seek support from a DV counsellor but believe me when I say that virtually any DV counsellor is going to be overjoyed that they are working with a client who wants to learn how to support someone close to them in extricating themselves from an abusive situation; DV counsellors know that they cannot save victims, they know that around every victim is a community of people who turn a blind eye/feel too uncomfortable or too uninformed to work on addressing the situation/think that they have all the answers for how to address this very complicated situation, they know that any effort they put into working with you is going to make the community a safer place - if everyone knew the signs of abuse and what to do when someone is being abused then the rates of abuse would plummet.
(I know this isn’t a DV situation in the strict sense of familial/intimate partner violence but it fits within a broader umbrella of a figure of authority using coercive power over their victim to abuse them and so the general approach along with the risks and the ways to support your friend remain essentially the same, even though the label of DV isn’t a perfect fit.)

So it’s important to start with the key details. The first point of contact is usually a receptionist or someone in a similar role. These people are gatekeepers but they can so be very helpful in directing you to the right person or in bumping you up in priority if you say the right things.

The first step is to know what service you are looking at and what support they provide.

A legal aid organisation is probably only going to have a list of mental health crisis services and DV support services that they’ll have printed off, so if you go to them and you either seem to be needing support in this respect or you lean into this angle too much, most reception staff will bounce you to another service that they feel is more suitable based on what you have said.

So, know who you are calling and have a rough idea of what you are looking for.

Where possible, do the cursory reading available on their website so you aren’t just asking for something extremely general; try to be as specific as possible with what you want from them or what you are seeking support for.

For example, calling a legal aid organisation and saying your friend needs help because she has been SAed will probably get a response where they will tell you to call the police or victim support services. If you tell them that your friend is being victimised by their landlord and that you are seeking info about ways that she can get legal advice for her situation about breaking her tenancy and for protecting herself within the bounds of the law, you are almost guaranteed to get a much better and more useful response from them.

Make sure that you don’t dump all of your woes on the reception staff, they hate it and they can’t do much about it. Unfortunately you don’t want to come off as a time-waster (sucks that some front desk staff have this attitude but it is what it is) or as someone who isn’t serious. You are welcome to call hotlines and support services that offer support to friends and family of victims of DV & SA if you need to vent or to help sort out what’s going on for you because of this, and I’d encourage you to do this, but avoid dumping everything on reception staff.

Instead be direct:

Tell them that you are calling on behalf of a friend, that they aren’t in immediate danger, that they are [age] and that they have disclosed that they have been intentionally and repeatedly SAed by their landlord and as they are disabled, on a fixed income, with specific accessibility needs for their housing (?), and socially isolated/with little support from family (?) that they are currently in very difficult circumstances. I’d recommend providing basic relevant info about the disability too - permanent wheelchair user, intellectual disability, the sort of info that indicates particular needs or vulnerabilities. Don’t provide the laundry list of diagnoses - reception staff probably don’t care if she has generalised anxiety disorder or diabetes but if there are particular conditions that make accessing services, self-advocacy, and responding to emergencies significantly more difficult for her then they’ll appreciate you informing them. (On that note, if there are other barriers such as a language divide where she will likely need an interpreter or if there’s issues of cultural sensitivity to be taken into consideration, it’s worth mentioning it.)

Then immediately proceed to tell them what you want from them or what information you need from them. Ideally without letting them get a word in edgewise:

“I want to know more about what legal aid she would have access to and what the next steps would be for her to get this” or “I would like information about what I can do to help her the next time her landlord will be in direct contact with her” or “I have specific questions about what she is within her rights to do as a tenant such as changing the locks on her doors without supplying keys to the landlord” or “I would like more information about what advocacy services you would be able to provide my friend in this situation.”

That sort of thing. Obviously pitch it at the right person/service. Asking for legal info about tenants’ rights at the mental health crisis service isn’t the way to go about it. Also note that asking reception staff to provide you with legal advice or to engage in crisis planning with you isn’t going to be suitable.

The next thing is to take no for an answer but don’t let them end the conversation there.

If they tell you that they aren’t able to provide a particular service or a certain type of support, ask them which organisation can. Ask them if they know of any other services that they can recommend based on her current circumstances/needs.

You may need to ask info about referral processes, although for crisis services and DV & SA services they almost invariably accept self-referral. This is as simple as asking “Do you accept self-referral?” or “What is the referral process for this service?”

I would also recommend her applying for the Ontario Special Priority Policy asap. You can find the Housing Services Manager local to her here:

http://www.ontario.ca/page/find-your-local-service-manager

You might have to do a bit of advocacy to get her to qualify for this as the policy is abysmal and it basically only recognises relationship violence within families and households but not abusers who can have coercive control (e.g. employers and landleeches). But if you can make a case for her being physically dependent upon her landlord then you’re in.

The situation may constitute human trafficking under Canadian law. Once she is connected up with the immediate services, I’d encourage her to reach out to the Canada Human Trafficking Hotline to get their advice about whether her circumstances meet the legal definition. I’d recommend her talking this through with a counsellor first so that she can have a chance to sort through things, especially the emotional aspects, and so she can approach this the right way. The realisation that she may be considered a victim of sex trafficking might hit her pretty hard so you want to make sure she has the right supports in place before broaching this subject with her.

If she does meet the legal definition of sex trafficking then she will definitely be eligible for the Ontario Special Priority Policy. If she doesn’t, unfortunately she might need to escalate the situation slightly (refusing him access to her home, recording him the next time he is in her presence, collecting kompromat where he threatens to kick her out unless she lets him SA her again or by baiting him into acknowledging what he has done to her previously [e.g. sending him a text stating “I don’t want to let you in my house because of what you did to me the last times” - unfortunately perpetrators thrive on implicit admissions of vulnerability like this from their victims so saying “Please don’t touch me the next time you come to my house” is going to be more likely to get you a response that is admissible evidence rather than saying “If you fucking dare to come into my house without notice I will immediately introduce you to my 9mm friend who is desperate to meet you because I have a right to defend myself from home invasion and if there’s someone at my door who is unlocking it without knocking or calling me first then I’m going to treat that as a home invasion and I will act accordingly. Don’t fucking try me.” would] that sort of thing. I think if she says no and it is heavily implied that it’s about sex then he responds with a threat about evicting her then that might just seal the deal for this scumbag). With regards to kompromat, try to get him to acknowledge or at least fail to deny what happened in previous SAs, such as stating to him that last time she told him no or that she resisted or she didn’t agree until he threatened her safety or housing and so on.

It’s hard to say much else in a general sense but if you are trying to access particular services or supports but you are facing significant hurdles or you’re getting rebuffed then if you give me more info I’ll be able to give you advice specific to that particular situation.

[CW: Abuse, SA, Suicide & SH]

Just throwing potential resources and support services out there, I cannot attest to any of them being good:

http://coasthamilton.ca/

https://www.josephbranthospital.ca/en/programs-and-services/sexual-assault-and-domestic-violence-care-centre.asp

https://sacha.ca/

https://banyancommunityservices.org/what-we-do/helping-adults/violence-against-women-counselling/

https://sexualassaultsupport.ca/

https://intervalhousehamilton.org/

https://www.legalaid.on.ca/

https://www.djno.ca/

https://archdisabilitylaw.ca/

https://www.lco-cdo.org/en/learn-about-us/
(More for a gateway to find someone who might be able to provide pro bono representation or other support rather than being a destination in itself)

https://www.acto.ca/

https://onta.ca/

I think it’s important to work on a triage basis here:

Obviously the assaults are the central problem that you’ve identified here, you don’t need me to tell you that, but it seems that suicide is also a major risk factor.

The tricky part is determining what is the most urgent priority - addressing the suicidality or addressing the SA and the housing problem that this creates.

Support services for victims of abuse basically need to be equipped to deal with suicidal ideation in victims since it’s extremely common, especially for crisis intervention services. My general advice wound be to direct your friend to these services but to give her the mental health crisis support services so that if her primary concern is that she is a risk to herself or if it becomes the primary concern, she can address that directly.

I’d also recommend spread this across services but in a purposeful way.

Support her to connect with the SA crisis support service to give her the immediate resources and to help her to build a strategy to escape her situation safely, potentially also to collect evidence for a case or to press charges in the future (because she will only have one chance to do this - cases and charges can be dropped but if you opt not to collect evidence now then [generally] you foreclose on the opportunity to pursue these things in future), and to get good advice on which other services she should link into.

Then support her to connect with mental health crisis intervention and support services so that if she’s having a particularly bad patch of mental distress she will have somewhere to reach out to for her mental health.

Then once those two needs have been covered and if she still needs support, look to other services for victims of abuse that are less crisis centred and more long-term oriented along with orgs for disability rights, legal services, and housing as needed.

I hope this helps. I can provide you with general advice for advocacy and wayfinding through support services, although I am not familiar with the Canadian system, so let me know if you need any advice or support with this.

Also note that basically every service I’ve listed should be expected to be welcoming to you if you choose to call on her behalf to explain the situation and to get advice for what she can do and how you can support her in this. For this try to call the non-emergency lines and call during business hours, where possible. Where this isn’t possible, inform the person on the other end of the line that you are calling on behalf of a friend who you are concerned about but that it isn’t an emergency then ask if their lines are busy currently and, if so, when would be a good time to call back. You might also get a sense of how busy the lines are based on how long it takes for them to answer or to transfer you to a worker, but it’s hard to say exactly what a typical wait time is like unless you know the lay of the land for crisis and victim support services in your region.

Here are two recipes for channa masala that I can attest to:

https://www.spiceupthecurry.com/chole/

And for a more Anglo-friendly version:

https://smittenkitchen.com/2010/02/chana-masala/

You really can’t substitute amchur for anything else, except for similarly exotic ingredients like maybe sumac, with the expectation of getting the same end result so I’d recommend going to the effort of hunting it down.

Most of North Indian cuisine that you would be familiar with is just variations on the exact same method so if you watch a few cooking tutorials you’ll get the idea of how it’s done and you’ll be able to expand to a whole lot of dishes from that point on. It’s a lot like stir frying - there’s the basic techniques used and the order that ingredients get cooked in but really the only thing that changes is quantities and in the ingredients themselves (e.g. snake beans vs lotus root); channa masala is one simple step away from something like rajma masala - the technique is identical, you are just using a different bean and the quantity of spices is slightly different.

There’s a book that comes highly recommended especially by neurodivergent folks titled How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organising by KC Davis. I haven read it yet but I hear a lot of glowing praise for it.

Unsolicited advice:

I find that my spaces work best when I have designated places for things. Containers, racks, drawers, trays, you name it. If things have a home then it’s easier to keep things tidy.

When it comes to creating designated spaces, I like to take a desire path-influenced approach to this; if you find certain things piling up in certain areas then that’s an indication that you should try creating a designated space there for those things, or at least within reach if that exact spot isn’t suitable.

Shoes piled up by the front door? Maybe it’s worth putting a shoe rack or a hallway bench table that is cushioned so you can seat yourself there when you take your shoes on and off. If you’re already sitting at the bench then you’re probably going to tuck those shoes you’ve just taken off under the bench or you’ll put them on the shoe rack.

Letters and paperwork piling up in a corner? You might want to try putting a small table or cabinet in that spot. Or maybe you don’t have the space for that so you could try a letter organiser that you attach to the wall instead.

In the picture I can see a few tells about what you might benefit from based on this design approach:

A reasonably sized trash bin near your bedside would help with keeping rubbish off your floor.

A shoe rack would help you keeping your shoes organised.

You can get underbed shoe racks with wheels so they pull out, or you can just get an underbed plastic storage tub for less cash and use it in the same way. Or you might prefer a shoe rack or over-door hanging shoe organiser. Alternatively you might prefer a valet stand if you have a bit of a floordrobe issue that you want to address - you can tuck your shoes under the valet as their spot and any clothes that are too clean to go into the laundry but that are too dirty to go back into the wardrobe can hang out on the valet, along with other bits and pieces like fashion accessories and watches etc.

Here’s one example of a valet, although they come in all sorts of styles and they seem to be resurging in popularity:

Note that you don’t need a specific piece of overpriced furniture to make a valet stand. You could get creative and put together a chair and maybe a small hanging rack behind it to achieve the same function. It probably won’t look as aesthetically appealing but that doesn’t matter because if it helps you to be more organised that’s what counts.

I think I spotted some clothes on the floor. If you don’t already have a laundry basket in your room then I would recommend getting one. If you do have one and you find that your dirty laundry piles up on the floor anyway then that would be an indication that your laundry basket isn’t suitingyour needs - is it too small? Is it tucked away behind closet doors, meaning that you forget all about it or that it feels like it’s too much effort to get to? Etc.

The last thing is that it seems like you would benefit from having another bedside table on the other side of the bed because there’s a lot of stuff there. If you have a working space there, it might be easier for you to manage keeping that area tidier.

If it helps, you can even label your designated spaces either temporarily (using something like post it notes) or permanently. If you have little indicators telling you where things belong then it removes the unnecessary mental burden of remembering/figuring it out.

As for cleaning, you could try a few different approaches:

• Making a big list of each task and crossing them off as you progress

• Using a sorta pomodoro timer method and setting a timer for 5/10 mins then cleaning whatever you can in that time period before taking a break and later switching back to a short time period of cleanup, that way you are less likely to feel overwhelmed

• Picking a single spot and addressing that, without concern for the other stuff that needs to be done

With that last one you might find yourself shifting 50% of the junk to another pile elsewhere in the room. That’s okay. You want to carve out a space where things are clean and tidy and organised, like a little oasis for yourself. With big cleanup tasks often I find that I will shift an object from one pile to another and another as I clean and tidy each section before I eventually find a suitable home for that object. This is part of the process for me. On this, I find that if I spend too long trying to figure out where one object should live often I get bogged down and distracted, thus losing all of my momentum, so I take the approach that if I can’t come up with a place for that object within a few seconds then it goes into the pile of things that require a home which I sort out later on.

To expand a little on this strategy, with big cleanup tasks I like to create a few containers to help me sort out what I’m doing:

• Trash (optional: also recycling)

• Donations

• Stuff that doesn’t have a home and needs to be organised

It can be garbage bags or empty boxes or containers or laundry baskets or anything, it really doesn’t matter. Just having those three-ish categories means that it’s much easier to sort through things, at least for me.

Final thoughts:

Don’t overwhelm yourself.

If you have a pile of dishes at your desk and you only take your most recent one back to the kitchen, that is still good progress. Try to get into the habit of just doing one thing - if you’re leaving your bedroom and going into another room, try taking just one thing that needs to be cleaned or put away and dealing with that as you go about your day. One bowl or one glass or one piece of trash. Something extremely simple that will only take a few moments to sort out. No big commitments, no huge demands or expectations; just one little thing.

If you cultivate this as a habit then you’re going to make the big cleanups easier and you’re going to sustain the clean and tidy state for a lot longer.

One book on the Spanish Civil War that gets overlooked is International Solidarity with the Spanish Republic (1936-1939). It’s a bit dry but it has interesting information in it. Also the book cover absolutely slaps:

There’s also a documentary interviewing people who lived in the Second Spanish Republic titled Living Utopia: Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution (1:34:53). It might be a bit of an uncritical, rose-tinted view of the republic for my tastes but it’s pretty cool hearing from the people who lived it and it’s pretty inspiring to hear from average people who took a shot at a socialist revolution and made impressive achievements, even if it did ultimately fail. I’m uncertain about this but I suspect that they are interviewing a lot of the Spaniards who fled to Mexico around the fall of the republic. If this is your jam and you want to hear more, a historian named Burnett Bolloten interviewed with lots of refugees from the republic who settled in Mexico especially in his book The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution because you get a fascinating look into how society was organised in the republic. Bolloten happened to be in Barcelona at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish civil war. Initially he was sympathetic towards the PCE but he later became disillusioned with the communist party and the Soviets, adopting the line that the communists betrayed the revolution, so there’s going to be a pretty palpable bias in his writings but they are still valuable from a historical perspective. (I have to wonder if Bolloten felt that the Spanish Republic was also betrayed by his own home country, the UK, and by France or if he reserves his criticisms exclusively for the communists though.)

We are really hitting that point where the carbon sinks are about to invert and start becoming source of carbon emissions, aren’t we?

To add to the other advice here I’d also try events that either skew queer or that are specifically for queer people.

There is probably a social group or activity group near you that meets up regularly which is for queer people, it’s just a matter of finding it.

If you can’t find one the the next thing would be to look for events that attract queer people. Conventions tend to (not necessarily fandom cons either - I’ve never been to a tattoo convention or event but I would expect to find more openly queer people there than at a farmer’s market [although you never know…]) You could also try roller derby or theatre groups and things like that which tend to attract a queer crowd. It’s not guaranteed that you’ll find a ton of queer people in these spaces but often when the community is smaller or underground then you usually only need one or two social connections to a queer person to have your foot in the door so you get invited along to informal meetups with other queer people in your region, so just be on the lookout for another queer person that you can strike up a conversation with to ask them where all the queers are hiding.

To expand on this a little, you could also try getting a bit more involved in a music scene that is either open to queer people (punk, lots of metal) or artists/bands that are queer because the community tends to turn out for them.

I’d also recommend flying the flag(s), stealthily if you need to keep yourself safe. But that T-shirt with the subtle rainbow on it or a bracelet/necklace with the right colour beads are going to signaling to the right people what’s up. Also remember to be open to people who seem to approach you out of the blue to strike up a conversation with you because there’s a chance they are also queer and they’ve clocked you as queer so they’re trying to forge a connection. (My oblivious arse would immediately jump to “Who are you and why are you subjecting me to small talk??” in this situation lol.) There are also some cool stealth pride images you can get as bumper stickers or keychains and stuff. You could slap one of these on a laptop and leave it visible while you hang out in a cafe or similar public place and see if anyone strikes up a conversation with you, e.g.:

Sucks to say it but a lot of women’s spaces are actually just for people who were AFAB and are sufficiently femme presenting.

If I were in your shoes I’d avoid those spaces unless they are explicitly in support of trans people (e.g. displaying the trans flag on their site, having trans speakers or specific trans events, an organiser tells you that they are etc.)

I really hate that the queer community still hasn’t sorted itself out with regards to cishet normativity.

My dog loves to be chased. 100% the only thing that he is always interested in, always been this way.

I trained him to associate me spreading my arms wide and saying “Hugs?” with being chased so now anytime I do this he immediately scampers away.

It’s good for comedy purposes.

(Just make sure that you have an actual recall command and that you are comfortable using it because there might be emergency circumstances that arise where you need your dog to come to you; you don’t want to accidentally give him the cue to run away because you’re in a high-pressure situation and you can’t think of the recall command.)

I’m so glad that my comment was what you needed. I was trying to muster something good and I wasn’t sure if it was going to hit the mark for you so it’s nice to get the positive feedback.

I hope you’re doing well and that things have been going more smoothly than you predicted. I really appreciate the contributions you make to this site and the culture here, it makes it a welcoming place even for oddball characters like me who never feel at home anywhere.

Apologies for dipping out on you without replying, life got on top of me as it tends to.

It was pretty cool seeing these emus. They weren’t doing any goofy dances though. There was just these strange bushes that seemed to be moving from out of the corner of my eye—no, wait those must be animals! And suddenly these strange things that looked like they were directly out of the Jim Henson workshop come loping right across the dirt track out of nowhere and then off into the bushes in a matter of seconds.

This tracks with what I’d expect to see with needing a higher dose, for whatever reason.

If we look at the curve in the graph, paying attention to the time axis, I’ve put two bars across the curve with the teal being the previous threshold where your stimulant level is high enough to really feel the effects. The orange bar represents the current threshold to feel the effects now, due to whatever changes you are experiencing elsewhere in your life (hormonal changes, psychological stuff like depression or insomnia, increased demands on you in your life such as study, family life, or demands from work):

This is just an approximation so don’t take it as anything more than a visual representation of what I’m trying to communicate.

If you have fluctuating demands or fluctuating circumstances, this is where Vyvanse works well with some instant release amphetamine stimulant. I’d be cautious about taking a second dose of Vyvanse too late in the day because it might increase the chances of insomnia and the delay of sleep onset, which can aggravate ADHD symptoms, and you might find yourself chasing your tail by increasing your dose but having its effects extending too late into night which in turn delays sleep onset which in turn makes you feel like the meds are not effective enough so you start bumping up the dose and thus aggravating the sleep issues.

By the looks of it, taking Vyvanse with orange juice doesn’t really have much effect so you can give it a try but I wouldn’t anticipate any noticeable change:

Consuming things that acidify your urine such as vitamin C later in the day might have an impact however.

So consuming things that acidify your urine will accelerate how your body metabolises amphetamines like Vyvanse however because Vyvanse is lisdexamphetamine the real limiting factor is in your body metabolising the lisdex to dexamphetamine.

Afaik it’s not something that has been really examined in any scientific studies but my assumption is that things like Vitamin C are going to reduce the overall effect of Vyvanse but you shouldn’t expect to see a big crash unless you consume a large amount of Vitamin C heavy foods (or similar) towards the tail-end of your expected period for Vyvanse effectiveness.

If you find that the Vyvanse feels like it just isn’t doing the same on a daily basis throughout the day then that’s an indication that you might need to bump the dose up a bit.

If you are so inclined, fiddle around with your diet a bit and see if that makes any changes.

Fun fact: the Vyvanse directions instruct people to pour the contents of the capsule into orange juice specifically if you cannot swallow the capsule whole.

It’s actually to do with the acidity of your urine and how your body eliminates amphetamines. It’s really quite complicated.

This is going to get me put on a list of bourgeois scum for saying this but…

I also own a part of Liberty 4 earbuds and I’m very happy with them. For me with my auditory sensitivity the noise cancelling is not nearly as good as what you get from QC45s (I think?) or the Sony XM4s but they’re still very good. Like you, I think they aren’t perfect but they do a good job and I do not regret getting them in the slightest.

In my defense, I’m super heat sensitive as well and I live in a place that has brutal summers so often I have to weigh up whether I’m better off overheating with the XM4s or if I deal with more noise but being significantly cooler wearing the earbuds. It doesn’t seem like it from the outside but to me they are both accessibility devices. Trust me when I say that I sincerely wish that I didn’t have the need for owning both.

Big warning signs for Vaushite with that rhetoric. Given that it’s blahaj+Vaush dogwhistles, I wouldn’t be surprised if that user is a chaser.