Posted by LOOPS on December 15, 2004, at 8:38:31
In reply to ? for LOOPS, posted by jujube on December 14, 2004, at 21:44:52
Hi jujube -
would that be the Twinlabs Gaba Plus?? I have some as well, but I never got round to using it, as I preferred taking different ratios - niacinamide 500mg, inositol 500, GABA 500mg, and I was still using up some NOW bottles of these. I found these quite helpful for anxiety, but they didn't really address the underlying depression I was going through.
Also the inositol seemed to be de-stabilizing me a little bit. Note - I don't KNOW if this is true, but when I look back through my journal I see I was very up-and-down at this period, which seemed to get worse coinciding with the inositol supplementation. I eventually seemed to get out of this rut by ditching the inositol and re-starting st Johns Wort with lithium orotate.
There are no entries in my journal for the next few months - probably because I was out of my depressive-phase. However eventually I started to feel numb and unmotivated, and that's when I started looking around for other things.
I recently have settled (I hope) on high dose fish oil (with low-fat wholefood diet), GLA, lithium orotate, 5htp (for sleep), Neuroclear ('brain' formula which contains the DMAE + small amounts of tyrosine/phenylalanine (to balance the 5htp in the morning)) and sjw which I am now phasing out as the fish oil really starts making some difference.
Ok, the DMAE - I DID find helpful for awhile, and it did solve quite a few problems, including lack of motivation, indecisiveness, lack of concentration, lack of willpower. HOWEVER, it made me a bit argumentative at times, and it also, with hindsight, made me quite inflexible and 'driven'. It did perk up my tennis playing quite a bit though!! What I mean is - i think if you take a very small amount, and mix it with other things, it can be very useful, but I won't touch the 'pure' stuff in any quantity with a bargepole now. I'd rather be thick than argumentative.
HOpe that helps. I have been through many, many supplements in the battle against anxiety, so if you want any more info about other things, please ask. NOte everyone's reactions are obviously different. I do know some people still taking DMAE along with sjw and finding it very useful. Side-effects increase with dosage I think.
Loops
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