anti-depressant
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/conditions/04/09/st.johns.wort/
"St. John's Wort, a popular herbal supplement, is not effective in treating cases of major depression, according to a study released Tuesday."
However:
"..... St. John's Wort could prove effective for people who suffer from milder forms of depression, noting his study looked only at major depression characterized as moderately severe."
"St. John's Wort, a popular herbal supplement, is not effective in treating cases of major depression, according to a study released Tuesday."
However:
"..... St. John's Wort could prove effective for people who suffer from milder forms of depression, noting his study looked only at major depression characterized as moderately severe."
I know... 'God' forbid if anyone is concerned about the % of yearly deaths caused from people self-medicating. *rolls eyes* I mean what would I know besides studying 9 years of psychology and also reading 'The American Medical Journal' monthy and 'Psychology Today' every 2 months for the last 7 years to keep up to date with the latest research, treatments and medications.stang said:
If your serious about getting some information and help feel free to give me a PM, if not thats okay too. Take care.
P.S: If your mental illness is Severe NO kind or amount of Non-Prescription medication will work, ever.
All the best,
Annessa
xoxo
take a balanced approach:
excercise with personal trainer or friend/ good diet
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classical music...
excercise with personal trainer or friend/ good diet
http://bikramyoga.com/
http://ApolloHealth.com/golite.html
classical music...
Concerns over self-medication are generally related to prescription meds, or off-label use of over-the-counter
meds. Most of the concerns that do relate to herbal and other natural or non-prescription compounds
do not address direct effects or side-effects, but the possibility of counter-indication or synergies with other
meds being taken.
Also: Generally speaking, Neuro-chemistry is extremely individual. The degrees of variation between people
are much more obvious and striking than even the visible differences we are more accustomed to paying attention
to (like build, hair colour, eye colour, etc.) in everyday life. Furthermore, a given individual's makeup
can change substantially over time. It can be very difficult to give advice... Medicine is a profession for a reason,
after all...
prescribed. This does not mean they cannot be clinically effective in some cases. The problem should
really be restated as follows:
Given a significantly severe mental illness, it may be that no kind or amount of ANY medication will
ever work, at least in the absence of other interventions (severing the corpus callosum, say,
to eliminate the propagation of neural activity between the left and right hemispheres...)
meds. Most of the concerns that do relate to herbal and other natural or non-prescription compounds
do not address direct effects or side-effects, but the possibility of counter-indication or synergies with other
meds being taken.
Also: Generally speaking, Neuro-chemistry is extremely individual. The degrees of variation between people
are much more obvious and striking than even the visible differences we are more accustomed to paying attention
to (like build, hair colour, eye colour, etc.) in everyday life. Furthermore, a given individual's makeup
can change substantially over time. It can be very difficult to give advice... Medicine is a profession for a reason,
after all...
I disagree. Some of the most powerful psychoactive substances are neither synthetic, nor widely
prescribed. This does not mean they cannot be clinically effective in some cases. The problem should
really be restated as follows:
Given a significantly severe mental illness, it may be that no kind or amount of ANY medication will
ever work, at least in the absence of other interventions (severing the corpus callosum, say,
to eliminate the propagation of neural activity between the left and right hemispheres...)
In small regular doses magic mushrooms act very much like the SSRI (prozac, zoloft etc.) family of anti-depressants with out the side effects. Small doses=less than 1/10gr. per day, taken in the morning. I used a self-made tincture-1 bottle Grand Marnier, approx 10 grms MM. grind the MM in a blender and then add to GM. Soak several days and then strain out the MM particles and discard. Take 1 table spoon in the morning. The best MM to use are psylocibin cubensa.
Depression is often a sign that something wants to change in your life and that somehow you are preventing the change. Any drug-natrual or othe wise-will only help to get you to stablise and hopefully to see that change is needed. Human beings hate change-and change is all there really is on this planet. Personally-except in cases of extreme mental illness-I recommend that a person only use anti-deprssants for about 6 mos. Look at starting a course in Yoga or Tai chi just to move energy in your body.
Good Luck
Depression is often a sign that something wants to change in your life and that somehow you are preventing the change. Any drug-natrual or othe wise-will only help to get you to stablise and hopefully to see that change is needed. Human beings hate change-and change is all there really is on this planet. Personally-except in cases of extreme mental illness-I recommend that a person only use anti-deprssants for about 6 mos. Look at starting a course in Yoga or Tai chi just to move energy in your body.
Good Luck
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http://margaritaville.com/concoctions
I get the best buzzz going out of this stuff!
Can now be bought at LCBO.
Nice!
