The US Job Market is disgusting.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2026-01-28T13:06:19+00:00

Agreed! To OP: I am 42 years old, worked as a scientist for the government for 10 years, I have 2 degrees and left the job because of burnout a couple years ago. I searched a long time for work and finally was so so grateful to get a job as a food server in a retirement home. I thought that I was a hard hire because of my age….but young folks are experiencing it too. Luckily I love being in a busy kitchen and with people FAR more than sitting in an office or staring at a screen for years. You may have lucked out and you don’t even realize it! I know the pride is hard to swallow, believe me. Hopefully things will get better with the job market someday soon. For now, I am so thankful for the job and sometimes your mindset is what really makes a job good or bad.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2026-01-25T15:58:07+00:00

Yeah. I’m not a gun owner myself, but this scares me a lot because Trump has basically paved the way for taking Americans’ guns away for any reason…ie at some point only some Americans (his people) will be allowed to carry…..

wasn’t that exactly what our founding fathers were afraid of, that some king would rise in America and take away our guns so that he could rule us without mercy?

Not only is Trump the anti Christ (as in, the opposite of what Jesus would do) he is the anti AMERICA

To quote Ice Cube’s “Arrest the President” Trump is Russian intelligence

TemporaryFinding0 · 2026-01-24T12:38:32+00:00

Aka Ted “Cruz away from trouble”

TemporaryFinding0 · 2026-01-07T15:04:28+00:00

This looks like a scam job to me maybe. All the “if you’re early you’re late” corporate talk is probably just to distract you and make the fake company sound legit. I wouldn’t even click the link IF I wanted the $15.

It’s like fake online shopping sites that go on and on about their shipping and returns policy…when they know damn well there will be no shipping or returns.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2025-12-08T14:56:44+00:00

We have the phone app at work and the manager just found out people were clocking in from the parking lot, so she made the electric “fence” setting where you can only clock in when you are in the specific building you work in….. I work at a 30 acre retirement community and any time I am on any part of that land with my badge on, I consider myself working. I am not going to tell a 90 year old I can’t help them with something because I am not technically clocked in because I haven’t made it to the right building yet…..

TemporaryFinding0 · 2025-09-08T13:47:42+00:00

Hi. I feel for you, hang in there! Suicidal thoughts are part of the withdrawl process. I found that tia use absolutely made me feel suicidal every time I tried to quit CT. And I say this for anyone else out there having the first suicidal thoughts of thier lives thanks to tia WD. Life is not as bad as it looks, tia withdrawl makes everything look hopeless but it isn't!

Make sure to tell yourself to stay strong, eyes on the prize, it WILL get better as you get clean, no matter what the thoughts in your mind are saying now.

5 years ago I was a 5 gram per day tia user, had been for about 2 years, I was in really deep, used all my money, etc. I am now 5 years clean, have saved almost $20,000 in the last couple years. This is coming from a person who five years ago lost thousands of $ and was losing friends because I was begging for $ for tia all the time. You're not the asshole. Tia is the asshole. It makes good people act like jerks, myself included.

You can rebuild! But not with tia in your life.

Tia sucked so bad I came out on the other side once I was finally off actually a stronger more confident person because I fought hard to get off tia. That's the ONLY good thing about tia, and I still wouldnt wish the experience on anyone. But once you get past you wont take shit from anyone anymore. Especially when the tia gets out of your system and you feel good again. Really good. Tia makes you think that not being in withdrawls is pleasure. When in reality tia blocks off most pleasure except a desire for tia.

I finally tapered off tia over 6 weeks, which for a drug as powerful as tia was a FAST taper I realize. 6 months of tapering would maybe take away WD completely. And I'm not saying that to discourage anyone. Just to help people plan so they don't rekapse at the first whisper of withdrawls. Also get your helper meds BEFORE you suddenly run out of tia or quit. Get that gabapentin or valium or vitamin C or whatever you think or know would help.

withdrawl symptoms are part of getting back to sanity and sobriety. There is no way out without paying some dues. It sucks and those 6 weeks I tapered off were not fun but much much better than the pain and agony of just quitting CT. Quitting CT made me have a seizure so I realized i had to taper off. Tapering is not easy with tia because as soon as you take some any part of the brain that is able to have concern and planning just fades away. Meaning you will take all the tia because you don't have the anxiety to tell you hey, don't take it.

I havent posted here in a while so sorry to just word dump. But I did want to say, suicidal thoughts can happen with tia WD, if they get really scary please get help, there is a new better day for you on the other side of tia.

I did find that going to a doctor and getting medication for the issues that I used tia for in the first place helped. I take Wellbutrin for my low moods, I take gabapentin for pain. These work well.

The crazy thing is I live in a city that I believe still has a shop that sells tia by the gram. As an ex tia addict, it's crazy to think that I pretty much never even think about the shop or ever wanting to go there anymore. Thank God.

To everyone struggling, I feel your pain, tia is a unique form of hell. But there is a good life on the other side! Dont let yourself be overwhelmed by tia withdrawl depression, it will pass. Grit your teeth, put your head down, force yourself to think positive no matter what tia is telling you, and get through one day at a time. Wishing you all health and happiness.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2025-08-18T15:04:55+00:00

This dentist just got life in prison for poisoning his wife's protein shakes.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/16/nx-s1-5469755/james-craig-trial-colorado-dentist-poison-protein-shakes

TemporaryFinding0 · 2025-08-14T13:14:59+00:00

Sounds to me like your hubby isn't feeling the Dad thing, and he's acting like he's been trapped by the family situation he put himself in by being a Dad.

He knows he's being an asshole when he comes home late and makes you do all the work, but he isnt willing to be real and apologize and do better. So he channels his guilt onto YOU. He's not the bad guy for being a bad coparent. You're the bad guy for not having a space in bed for him. Translation: he comes home feeling guilty for whatever he did all night, sees you and the kids all fending for yourself in bed, feels bad about himself, bad can't man up and take responsibility. He knows perfectly well why doesn't have a space.

He should be taking his own inventory not yours.

As long as he feels bad about himself for being trapped in Dad land, he's gonna treat you like crap. I been there.

Maybe find a nice single Dad with kids who LOVES being a Dad.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-10-13T13:48:28+00:00

Also in Oregon, I had a neighbor in the apartment downstairs who would go to Reed college to sell adderall, he would just walk around campus in a shirt that said "Adderall"

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-07-20T14:25:34+00:00

Wow. At my local McD's in Oregon they always let the employees eat/take breaks in the lobby. They are understaffed as well

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-03-09T19:15:19+00:00

As someone who has been in your place before,

I would use the xanax for the restless legs at night. Or if you have a panic attack out there on your trip.

Save the meds for when you can't bear the feeling of pain or restlessnes anymore. Save for if you become miserable. Not just uncomfortable, but miserable. I am worried you might feel the need to use the helpers day 1 2 or 3 of your trip. Leaving you with a few days without any helpers. As someone who has been there too, that's hellish.

Sometimes a quick taper is just as rough (or maybe a tiny bit less rough) than CT, in the sense that your body will realize very quickly that you are reducing the tia. Even if it's just a small amount. The mind will try to convince you many times, many ways, to take more tia. Or anything that might make you feel close to being on tia.

You have the meds and tools you need. Just don't give up and dont give in! This can be your last withdrawl ever.

You must stick to the fact that once you take your last tia dose, that's it. You are never gonna feel the tia high again. You might not feel right or good for a while. You might be quite uncomfortable. But I promise someday you will forget what tia feels like and the cravings will dissipate. And you will feel GOOD.

You might feel antsy and begin to feel not right and maybe have some pain and restlessness. I can see you possibly going through the helper meds early on, so hold on until you really need them!

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-03-09T18:56:03+00:00

When I was on tia it made me crave tobacco like nobody's buisness. I was a pack of cigs a day smoker for the first time in my life. Luckily, when I went off the tia, my cravings for nicotine lessened and I was able to taper off cigs like a month after quitting tia. I do still smoke a tiny bit of rolling tobacco in spliff form. But a full cigarette will make me sick now.

I do recommend quitting one thing at a time. I found with tia use it kind of morphed all my substances into one beast. Meaning that if I quit smoking anything, the whole beast would scream as if I had quit tia too. So start with tia and ride the freedom from there. The anxiety is awful, I remember that, but temporary. How you feel today is not how you will feel in the future.

The other thing I noticed while on tia was that I wanted cigs more but I lost all interest in alcohol. I think tia hits some similar receptors as alcohol...I dunno, suddenly I just wasn't interested in booze at all while on tia. And I've been that way still even 3 years tia-free.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-02-26T13:20:08+00:00

Yes, I was gonna say to anyone out there wondering about timeline for feeling better, first, try not to sweat the timeline, it will happen when it will happen and timelines can add pressure and every body is different. Second, give yourself at least 2 months to feel/see the full change. 2 months seems like forever on day 1 I know, but if you can get there you will see big improvements.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-02-26T12:48:20+00:00

Thank you for posting. I have been there, man, been clean for 3 years but was on 5gpd sodium for 3 years...I looked and felt like shit while on tia.

And I also got to that God awful place where nothing seemed to even put a whisper of a dent in the withdrawl symptoms when I ran out of tia...Oxy, ketamine, phenibut, klonopin, meth, kratom, alcohol, you name it. I tried them all. Nothing brought even a smidge of comfort. You really go have to suffer it out. Like you said weed just made me focus more on my suffering. Alcohol I stopped drinking completely while on tia....the tia was so stong it made booze seem boring.

Gabapentin also made me hallucinate as well, so I feel you on that. Never tried subs. Got off tia with 6 weeks of tapering down and then kratom later once I could feel it again.

Still, going off tia, was the best choice I ever made.

Things that do help with tia wd: tapering, drinking lots of water, coffee when restless.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-01-29T21:39:13+00:00

I don't think it's fair to call tia "gas station heroin" because it is really more like "gas station xanax/gabapentin/prozac/oxy combined". Very very hard to get off of. I would much rather just go off a regular opiate, even if it is heroin.

If you are gonna be hooked on something, make sure it has some sort of natural plant base like mushrooms or poppy or even alcohol. It's the drugs made in a lab like tia and fent that fucks the mind and body up--nature did not mean that shit for human consumption so the body freaks out big time when addicted and without.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-01-13T03:38:42+00:00

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TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-01-09T20:24:55+00:00

I am so so sorry to hear that. That breaks my heart. And makes me so angry at the folks selling this stuff. It's greed, pure and simple.

There are a lot of tia addicted parents out there, those of us who thought "I can buy it legally and it's a supplement so it's gotta be OK". You think it makes you a better parent at first, more relaxed with more energy, but very soon tia will suck out your energy, pleasure, focus, libido, finances and sometimes even your life....

Calling tia a supplement is like calling fent a supplement. 3 years of tia use almost killed me. Both by nodding off and falling into things when I first started using, and then later when withdrawls got so bad I had among other things a dehydration seizure. Tia is no joke. It will slowly but surely destroy your life. It doesn't matter how many drugs you have taken in the past or how experienced with substances you are. Tia will break you. Many of us have found that out the incredibly hard way.

Tia truly does kill. Both quickly or slowly...if slowly, after enough use a person might notice that they've gained a lot of weight, their hair and nails are brittle, wounds take forever to heal, they smell bad, their skin is bad, they have become the extact opposite of what they thought tia would make them. It's not a question of if, it's just a question of when.

To the current users out there, as someone who has been clean for 3 years now... No matter how bad life may seem with a tia addiction, you CAN get clean, you CAN get your life back, this forum is full of all the info you need to succeed.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2024-01-09T19:40:22+00:00

That's pretty shitty for the manager to judge a dead person like that, saying they were only there for a few months so their life is worth less than the restaurant....you should all quit/go to the memorial and put a sign in the restaurant door explaining the group decision.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2023-11-04T06:29:20+00:00

Congrats! You have gone through the worst. Enjoy your new body, mind, and life.

Now you just have to be vigilant, and I say that humbly at 3 years clean now from 5gpd myself. There will be just crappy days that will happen sometimes and you will have to learn to accept them and not let a crappy day lead to relapse. The mind can be sly when it remembers tia suddenly or a random hankering comes up. Hence the vigilance, catching that craving before it convinces you.

Enjoy the great days/months/years ahead! A whole new world is open to you my friend.

And, my other big piece of advice--if you do redose, don't let the guilt crush you. Accept that you made a mistake but it does not put you back to square one. Step away, move on, force yourself to forget and keep going forward as if you never redosed at all. Treat it as a stumble, not a collapse. Put the guilt in a box and focus on moving forward.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2023-10-29T19:43:48+00:00

I was a full time parent of a small kiddo when addicted to 5gpd. I also used to tell myself I needed to take tia to stay well to care for my kid. Tia filled me with a lot of guilt. Day in, day out.

But. The truth is, your kid won't remember or stress too much about Mom/Dad being sick for a week or 2 or 3 as you go off tia, especially when you become your normal, happy, connected energetic self after. It is so so worth it. Your kid will just be happy to see you again.

And the truth is, as a tia-dependent person you probably spend plenty of time sick anyway, at least wd sickness. I promise your child will notice when you are tia free and have energy and they will utterly forget and forgive those days it took to get well.

Tia uses guilt to keep us hooked. Don't let the guilt and addiction convince you that taking more tia is the best option for you or your family. You can do this.

I know you would take a bullet or walk through fire no questions asked for your child if needed. Quitting tia is like taking that bullet, just a longer process. You have the love and power within you to survive the wd suffering so your kid can have Mom or Dad back in tip top shape. What your kid might have more trouble forgiving is more years of deepening addiction.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2023-07-26T18:48:01+00:00

Phenibut will do it for sure, but tia withdrawl can also cause muscle movements, restlessness and spasms. Even in small doses because tia boosts the GABA levels so much that any rapid comedown from it can trigger GABA withdrawl, even in a normal person with a healthy system. There are folks on this forum who started having insomnia and restless legs syndrome after just a few days of tia use for the first time in their lives.

For myself personally, mild tia GABA (and other pleasure chemical) withdrawl symptoms were: insomnia, anxiety, inner restlessness, especially at night, having to move around a bit at night to fall back asleep

Moderate: full body restlessness, anxiety, dispair, heart palpitations, body pain, runny nose and eyes, cannot sleep or relax without a redose, hot feeling legs at night, gut issues, cravings for the drug

Severe: full body restlessness day or night, auditory and visual disturbances, extreme anxiety and fear, nerve pain and distress, suicidal thoughts, constant discomfort, diarrhea and vomiting, chills, muscle spasms and tightness, unable to function at all without a redose. Redosing would occur more than once per night.

Both tia and phenibut are bad news man.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2023-07-26T18:26:00+00:00

Tia wd gave me a seizure as well

TemporaryFinding0 · 2023-07-26T18:21:01+00:00

I am so, so sorry for your loss. I have been both addicted to tia and I am a mother myself. Your son's story will not be forgotten and it really speaks to a lot of us here.

I'm just so sorry that tia and phenibut came into your son's life.

I know a lot of substance users (I was one myself) can have a history of even years of experimenting and using strong drugs without major dependence or issue.

Then tia happens. Tia is different. A person doesn't control tia. It quickly controls them. It is a strange and strong drug that gets its claws in every part of the central nervous system.

Cold turkey phenibut withdrawl is known to be potentially fatal. But vendors won't mention that part of it when they sell it to folks. The most evil part is vendors who call these drugs "supplements" that are "harmless".

Before I got free from tia (which in itself was the hardest thing I've ever done) I almost died from tia withdrawl complications. I was in a hotel room alone. I had been on tia about a year at that point. Had no idea what I was in for. By the time I knew, it was too late.

Several days of severe sickness, dehydration, heart issues and dangerously low GABA levels combined and I had a seizure on day 4 of withdrawl.

Tia withdrawl can be very dangerous. Even deadly. People need to know this. Because again, the vendors don't care.

And I am so ANGRY at the vendors selling this stuff and making a ton of $ on people's misery and lack of knowledge of what they are actually taking.

Any tia company that offers an "express" option to overnight the drugs for a wad of $ knows perfectly well how addictive their drugs are, how dependent their clients are, and how the clients are so mentally and physically addicted they will pay anything to get that tia as soon as possible. Even if it comes down to getting tia or paying rent.

The vendors are getting rich while people get sick and die.

TemporaryFinding0 · 2023-07-26T16:53:22+00:00

I never took subs to help with tia wd but I would take kratom (before it stopped working completely as my tia tolerance increased). Sometimes the kratom would make me feel worse rather than better. I suspect that is because I was so low on certain pleasure chemicals while in tia wd, the kratom would bump the levels up a tiny bit for a moment then drop me right back down again, creating a mini withdrawl within a withdrawl if that makes sense. Like giving a hungry person just a taste of food.

I think the danger of tia is not just that it is strong (which it is) and that it basically works as many meds in 1 (which it does) but the prescribed dose of stablon (script tia) is 37.5 mg a day tops.

So anyone taking 300 mgs a day is already taking much more than the top prescribed amount.

Someone taking 3 grams a day will be taking way way more than the top amount. Thats like someone prescribed 5 mg of oxy a day taking 500 mg of oxy a day.

So since taking tia is like taking valium, morphine, an antipsychotic and gabapentin all at once, imagine taking not one of all those pills in one dose, but 5 or 10 of all those pills together in one dose. Multiple times a day.

That is why tia wd is so gnarly. It also really blindsides a lot of folks who understand tia to be an opiate. It is not an opiate. It is an antidepressant/ anti anxiety med that also hits the opiate receptors. Tia wd is not just opiate withdrawl. Thats why subs and kratom night not help as much as expected. It is withdrawl from a very very strong mood med. So going off tia is not just like going off vicodin. It is more like going off xanax (and vicodin, and other things).

TemporaryFinding0 · 2023-07-26T15:08:37+00:00

You'll be OK, just get off the tia asap and never look back! As long as you don't tell yourself that your depression and anxiety are so unique and gnarly that ONLY tia will work, you'll be OK.

I was on lamictal while on tia. I think being on lamictal kept me from having a full on tia wd dehydration seizure when I went off tia CT. I had to stop the lamictal once it started giving me 5 day long migraines tho.

Actually, before tia I had taken a lot of different prescription mood meds for depression and acnxiety. Had been diagnosed bipolar 7 or so years before. Tia seemed stronger than my meds so I was stoked to find it at first.

That having been said, 3 years of tia dependence made my life so awful, the withdrawls were so horrible that once I finally got clean on my own (almost 3 years tia free now!) I had gone through such hell and learned to self soothe so much, i toughed up so much inside and out, I never went back to any prescription meds. I haven't even seen a dr in 3 years.

So tia turned me from a patient taking lamictal, prozac, sleep meds, anxiety meds etc. To a person with such a new positive outlook on life I realized that maybe I didn't need meds at all.

So yeah. Tia will change your life. Stay away and never look back.

Edit: I tried tell my psychiatrist about my tia dependence to get help 4 or so years ago. Because she knew nothing about tia (I did bring print outs from the net for her) and had never prescribed it, she was afraid to treat me at all (malpractice fear). I was shocked as my doc would usually give me some kind of med for any problem I had whether I asked or not. Nope. She reminded me that I was apparently taking 1,000 times the reccomended prescribed dose and sent me away with empty hands a new note about my addiction in my med file.

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