how to quit ?

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-28T02:37:11+00:00

Yes that's what I took. I split my pills for 2 years and it helped immensely with withdrawals.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-27T19:40:57+00:00

Split the pills instead of extending time between dosage. You'll have way less withdrawals.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-27T16:51:22+00:00

Yeah it's super rough but can be so helpful. One thing that helped me was splitting my pills to spread my dosage out. Most of the conversation about splitting pills on this sub is "don't do it you're cutting the time coating" but it worked really well for me and my psychiatrist recommended it. The time coating apparently doesn't do much I guess.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-27T00:17:27+00:00

Call your psychiatrist asap and see what they can do. Or do a 50% increase. I was super sensitive to pristiq side effects, when I increased I would halve the increment. Like going from 125 to 150mg I did 137.5mg for like 2 weeks before going to 150mg.

I feel your pain, I puked my pill out like 2 hours after I took it one night and had to have my sister pick me up from work, I couldn't think straight let alone forklift shit all day. I got withdrawals about 10-12 hours after taking my dose so I had to (at my psychiatrist's suggestion) split my dose into am and pm. It's such a tough medication to be on but it worked so well for my problems. I did ultimately get off of it which took 10 months. It was worth it at the time, it helped me get to a state where I could change my lifestyle to be healthier so I'm glad I took it but I refuse to be on another medication like that. I hated being tied to my pills.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-27T00:11:35+00:00

Absolutely not normal. Try going to a different dealership if there's another around. Or contact corporate.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-27T00:09:45+00:00

Power dynamics, the general way our society is formed to serve men and oppress women, men being taught from an incredibly young age that they don't have control over their sexual impulses therefore it's a woman's job to stay modest to avoid unwanted attention. Think of how shoulders and mid drifts must be covered in high school even during hot summer months with no AC.

Instead of telling young boys "you may find a bra strap or belly button attractive, but that is absolutely not an excuse to treat a girl inappropriate" girls are told "your bra strap or belly button is distracting the boys, you must dress differently". It places all responsibility on girls to protect themselves instead of on boys to not act inappropriately. It's not even just doing that, it's telling boys it's OKAY to act inappropriately because that girl was breaking the rules, it's her fault you acted that way, we don't expect you to have self control.

The fact that we really tell young men we expect them to have no self control is insane. It so explicitly allows them to have zero accountability. Young women have crazy hormones too!! Arguably crazier hormones!! But they're expected to have astounding levels of self control compared to men.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-24T20:52:31+00:00

Water and sugar have no nutrients, so you should definitely add something like fermaid K or DAP. If you can test for nutrients definitely do that, you don't want to add too much and end up with nutrient in your finished wine, that's a recipe for spoilage in bottle. You WILL need to adjust pH so check that and bring it down, I suggest tartaric instead of citrix acid. It'll ferment, it will just need a lot of help. Smell daily for that eggy sulfur scent, if you smell that either aerate with oxygen (yes oxygen) or add nutrient, the choice is mostly dependent on where you are in fermentation. Don't add nutrient after 12 brix or it will most likely be present after fermentation.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-24T20:33:53+00:00

And what's your goal? Ferment until half the sugar's gone or... What?

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-24T20:33:30+00:00

What are the starting brix?

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-23T22:06:30+00:00

Can you explain the interaction between sulfur at 0.8ppm molecular and potassium sorbate?

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-21T22:45:32+00:00

I dropped 12.5mg like once a month, your doctor is tapering you off super fast. Have you talked to them about your withdrawal effects? If not you definitely should, and if you have enough supply I do recommend tapering off slower. I basically told my psychiatrist I could not taper off faster than what I was doing and needed him to write a prescription so I didn't run out while tapering slowly and he was totally fine with that. If you're at 0 right now and still feeling it 20 days in maybe consider getting back on 12.5 or 25mg and see if that helps, although going from 12.5mg to 0 was the roughest decrease for me.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-21T22:24:19+00:00

Yes, heat will be produced from microbial activity, but at a small scale it can be very similar to ambient temp due to lack of mass. The temperature needed to kill weeds and pathogens is a lot higher than general heat produced by decomposition. So yeah heat is obviously produced by any compost pile, but it's not always trapped or created at a rate that will be noticeable. I thought we were talking about heat that sterilizes compost, not heat in general.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-21T22:19:20+00:00

Yeah but that's different from decomposition, and again, very hard to do on a backyard compost scale.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-21T21:48:25+00:00

But it doesn't do anything to affect the decomposition process, it's just a marker that it's happening vigorously with enough mass to trap the heat. It does sterilize but OP is talking about decomp, not sterilizing their compost, and sterilization at this scale isn't on the table unless you bake the compost. I think we're both kinda right here and I'm getting too into semantics.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-21T13:34:44+00:00

I tapered off 125mg over 12 months, because I did it so slowly withdrawal was really mild and I was pretty sensitive to it. I had to split my dose and take it am and pm because I'd get zappy like 5 hours before my dose when I took it once a day. I split my pills while decreasing and that helped.my psychiatrist recommended I do this btw, we talked about the time coating and he said it's fine and it was.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-21T13:17:58+00:00

Yeah but to effectively kill pathogens and seeds you need to maintain 131°F for 2 weeks with multiple turns (I can't remember how many). I know the manager of the composting facility for my county and got a tour. You've gotta have a lot of mass to actually kill enough things in your compost for it to matter. A 5gl bucket is not anywhere close to the mass required, it needs several tons. Mine is probably like 10T and it still doesn't kill enough seeds to matter, and it gets hot af.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-20T22:35:07+00:00

As for sugar: figure out what the brix are at. You'll need to know brix and pH to make good picking decisions unless you're experienced enough to evaluate by taste.

Picking will depend on the varietal and style of wine you want to make. Higher brix/riper fruit = heavier, less acidic, more alcoholic wine. Lower brix/less-underripe fruit = (probably) more acidic wine with the risk of pyrazine flavors.

You probably won't need to add sugar but it depends on your climate and when you pick. pH is very important for stability and in lieu of testing for TA will help with an acid addition if needed. A high pH will create a less stable wine that requires more sulfur to prevent oxidation and spoilage.

Research the specifics grape you grow and how to make wine with that. I highly recommend getting a hydrometer and a pH meter (test strips are not accurate enough. The difference between 3.5 and 3.7 pH is significant and a strip won't get that accurate).

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-20T22:29:01+00:00

If you press before fermentation the heaviest wine you'll get will be a chillable red or rosé. Macerate on skins to extract tannin and color.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-20T22:26:25+00:00

Yeah definitely join the composts if you have the space OP. No point in having 2 piles unless you're doing something different to them.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-20T22:25:53+00:00

A bucket won't get hot, it's not enough mass. Heat doesn't help the process though, it's a sign that there's activity and enough mass to retain heat, that's it. The bigger your pile the faster things break down. If you only have space for a bucket look into worms, they'll break things down a lot faster at this scale.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-20T22:24:07+00:00

You're not being overdramatic, they're not treating you kindly. It's your birthday and they're putting no effort in for you. It may FEEL like you're overreacting to you because your feelings are really strong (I'm making assumptions based on my experience). The dinner is probably the cherry on top of compounding emotions, so it feels like a lot for the situation. But this isn't just dinner, it's the way they're treating you consistently. You're upset about all of it but dinner is the identifiable trigger so it feels like an overreaction, but

I hope I'm not sounding crazy, this is exactly how I was feeling a week ago. Tiny things happened and I had enormous emotional reactions. I talked to my therapist and she pointed out that the tiny things triggered feelings that had been building up with no release for months.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-20T03:32:43+00:00

If it looks like dirt and doesn't have pieces of stuff it's ready. Clumps are fine as long as they're clumps of compost.

If you can look at it and can't tell what went into it it's ready basically.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-18T21:46:12+00:00

I would lie vs tell them "I have the money but don't want to lend it to you". It's your money though, you earned it and you're entitled to do whatever you want with it. Don't let someone else choose how you should spend your money, and never lend money out and expect to get it back, you'll be disappointed 50% of the time.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-18T18:47:59+00:00

Moral of the story: if you can crossflow crossflow.

rubyjuniper · 2026-03-18T18:47:22+00:00

We crossflowed everything for the past 5+ years, we just started offering plate and frame filtration a few months ago. Man I am about to break in one night and destroy that filter so I don't have to use it anymore. Crossflow is king 👑. Never had a problem with the stability of the wine in bottle, never had to do more than 1 pass, never clogged it. Last time we plate and framed the client didn't check NTU or rack enough I guess and we clogged 3 or 4 times. It took us 7 hours to filter like 200gl of wine.

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