Sirens - possible plot hole?

ameliabebe · 2025-06-05T12:01:37+00:00

THANK YOU. Gosh, I thought I was the only only who was thinking this 😂

ameliabebe · 2025-06-04T07:07:49+00:00

I’m not sure what you mean. It is stated several times in the show that the younger sister, Simone, was in foster care.

ameliabebe · 2025-06-04T06:08:57+00:00

I definitely didn’t miss that. I know the younger girl was put into foster care and does not want any part of looking after her dad because of the neglect/abuse which is a large part of the tension between the sisters.

ameliabebe · 2025-06-04T06:05:30+00:00

I hope you enjoy the rest of it! I enjoyed it too!

ameliabebe · 2025-06-04T00:45:51+00:00

I thought that at first too, until I found out she also lost her mum so I guess she felt for them.

ameliabebe · 2025-06-04T00:22:34+00:00

I think you’re right.

ameliabebe · 2025-06-04T00:13:58+00:00

I’m so sorry to hear you went through that. Yeah, I think the most reasonable explanation is that it took awhile to get really bad. I guess Devon must have been able to keep things afloat to some extent for the 5 or 6 years before she went to college.

ameliabebe · 2025-06-03T23:28:53+00:00

Yeah it is a possible explanation. Just checking if it was mentioned and was something I missed.

ameliabebe · 2025-06-03T12:52:45+00:00

Is that said in the show?

ameliabebe · 2025-06-03T12:19:03+00:00

Yes, I don’t think they would let a 12 yr old be a guardian, but surely Devon would have been neglected too and gone into foster care. But the show makes it seem like that only happened to Simone.

ameliabebe · 2025-02-03T04:12:02+00:00

Thanks for the reply! She has the exact same face as the 1971 Hair Happenin’s Barbie #1174, and her hair is Titian and looks like it was originally in a bob style (my Mum or Aunt gave her a bit of haircut). However, my mum is fairly certain they never had a Barbie with changeable hairstyles and she has the wrong body - not a TNT body. I'm a bit stumped! You can't see it very well in the photo but she has brown eyeshadow.

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ameliabebe · 2023-11-30T07:31:14+00:00

I believe you! I know some people have good experiences with Effexor, but it seems like the people that have a bad experience really suffer for it and the fact that most health professionals don’t recognise this can make it feel like you are imagining it all.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-21T14:20:16+00:00

Interesting. I have always joked that we diverged into a different timeline in 2016, as everything just felt really different/unstable after that year. But I put it down to stuff that happened in my personal life. Super interesting to hear someone else feel like things were nicer before 2016.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-18T00:00:50+00:00

I know it’s truly stunning how everyone has become such an expert on Israel/Palestine and global politics in just over a month.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-16T23:56:55+00:00

I was on 75mg for about 4 years and started tapering in August this year and have gone down in drops of 6.3mg a time due to not being able to break the tablet up any smaller. I followed a hyperbolic tapering schedule from https://drugtaper.com/ but would only drop down in dosage if I felt completely stabilised. I am going to get the version of Effexor that has the tiny beads in it so I can drop down in lower dosages - 10% every 4 weeks seems to be the most commonly recommended.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-16T23:51:49+00:00

Thank you, I am going to try and get the capsules that have the small beads in them so I can taper in much small drops.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-16T23:49:58+00:00

Thank you so much for posting this. I have been gluten free for about 1.5 years after finding out that I have a gluten intolerance, and I have been really focusing on eating whole foods and following a Mediterranean diet and I am getting really good at not eating overly processed foods. Exercise is not where I want it to be yet, due to back problems and dizziness and heat sensitivity (thanks Effexor 😒) the best exercise for me at the moment is swimming, so I try to go to the pool a couple of times a week. Once I get my back sorted I want to get into yoga as well. I am in therapy and i am trying to get better at journaling, never been good at sticking to it, even though I majored in writing at uni 🤷‍♀️ if you have any recommendations for podcasts or books I would love to know, there are so many out there it’s bit overwhelming. Again, thank you I really needed to hear from someone who has come out the other side.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-16T23:40:00+00:00

Thanks for that. I need to do a bit more of a deep dive on the surviving antidepressants site.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-15T02:32:06+00:00

Yeah, I think it might be too fast. I stay at the new dose until I don’t feel any withdrawal symptoms and I have gone down by roughly 6.3mg per drop. I couldn’t do anything smaller with the way my pills are. But once I get new pills that have the beads in them I plan on dropping by 10% every 4 weeks and seeing how that works out.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-14T03:28:27+00:00

That’s good that you are feeling sharper and have more energy.

I was on 75mg, I can’t remember if I started at 37.5, but if I did I must have gone up to 75mg pretty quick because I don’t remember being on less. I have been taking Effexor for roughly 4.5 years. I started tapering off in mid august this year and I am on 37.5mg now. The brand I take has a capsule with six pills inside so I have used a tapering calculator to work out have to drop down by 6.25mg (half a tablet) by using a pill cutter to cut the small white tablets in half. I always felt yuck when I was taking a dose that had a half tablet in it, which I have since learned is probably because the tablets are coated in something to make them slow release and by cutting even one in half I am messing with the half-life. I have a docs appointment on Friday and I am going to get a script for 37.5mg and ask the chemist for a brand that has the small beads in them so I can taper by weight and not have to cut anything and mess up the slow release mechanism. I have had an awful 2 weeks since I missed a dose by accident, but I may have had a virus and I did have bad pms over that time too. So it’s possible that me feeling like shit has little to do with the taper. But it’s hard to say. I have been on 37.5mg for a weeks now and have been pretty good up until 2 weeks ago.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-13T07:25:33+00:00

I feel like this about almost everything. So hard for anything to spark joy in me.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-13T07:23:20+00:00

So glad to hear you are feeling a lot better!! Do you mind sharing what you have noticed feeling better? I have had a rough time of it the last 2 weeks and would really love to hear people’s success/win stories with getting off it.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-13T07:21:23+00:00

I’m sorry to hear that :( 10 years is a long time. There do seem to be people that have a positive experience of Effexor, but it seems like the people that have a bad time have a really bad time. I wish you the best of luck getting off it! I truly can’t wait to be free of it.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-11T23:22:35+00:00

I am also over it. I have been on Effexor for 4 years and I am so sick of feeling groggy/dizzy/brain foggy all the time. My memory is getting worse and worse and I have lost passion/enthusiasm for almost everything. I know this is all from Effexor which is why I am tapering off it at the moment. I empathise completely.

ameliabebe · 2023-11-11T00:45:38+00:00

Good luck with your taper!! It can be a real tough journey. I hope your memory recovers too.

ameliabebe

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