Re: St. Johns Wart fkunone: It's WORT, not Wart.
Re: St. Johns Wart Lady Phoenix: [quote author=athena link=topic=38086.msg416997#msg416997 date=1165352035">
5 HTP made me so fricken ass sleepy. A lady I work with told me about it so I tried it. But it really just knocked me out. Odd?
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I guess I forgot to add its supposed to help with sleep :P I'm an insomniac..or rather I have trouble falling asleep...so when I took it that was just an added benefit.
and Juggie.. so picky!! :P :P :P
Re: St. Johns Wart 2be: I took St. John's Wort for a while before my anxiety outgrew it's strength. And just to clarify... you need to take St. John's everyday too... it needs to build up in your system like all other anti-anxiety stuff.
Re: St. Johns Wart marfanoidus: hey, please go to a bookstore and buy
"Feeling Good - The New Nood Therapy"
For most people with depression, this book really helps.
A brief synopsis is that feelings follow thoughts. Don't underestimate that.
Medical doctors will prescribe medicines, but there is another way to help us control our thoughts, and therefore our feelings. It has helped me tremendously.
Negative thoughts will create negative feelings, and over time those feelings lead to depression.
Control the thoughts, and the feelings will follow. Please give it a try.
Re: St. Johns Wart sheeps: [quote author=marfanoidus link=topic=38086.msg419416#msg419416 date=1165645677">
hey, please go to a bookstore and buy
"Feeling Good - The New Nood Therapy"
For most people with depression, this book really helps.
A brief synopsis is that feelings follow thoughts. Don't underestimate that.
Medical doctors will prescribe medicines, but there is another way to help us control our thoughts, and therefore our feelings. It has helped me tremendously.
Negative thoughts will create negative feelings, and over time those feelings lead to depression.
Control the thoughts, and the feelings will follow. Please give it a try.
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I respectfully disagree. To claim that depression, especially clinical depression, is "caused" by continued "negative thoughts" goes against years of clinical studies that show that clinical depression is an imbalance of brain chemistry, often of an inherited nature.
This type of "self-help" book, I lump into the same category as Scientology: think Tom Cruise chastising Brooke Shields.
Although you may have been helped by this book, most people with clinical depression will not recover, or even function normally, without pharmaceutical intervention for a period of six months to 3 years. Recent studies have shown that it takes at least that long to climb out of deep depression and they have also shown that continued drug therapy can substantially increase the time between relapses, as most clinically depressed people will relapse over the course of their life.
But then again, perhaps I should just dig out my circa 1970's Nood Ring. :P
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