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Re: Aggressiveness and hostility!

Posted by bleauberry on September 24, 2007, at 18:58:59

In reply to Aggressiveness and hostility!, posted by Mary-Lisa on September 23, 2007, at 0:34:01

I agree with all the ideas in the previous posts, except for the lamictal and abilify ones. NO, you do not want to go that route. There is a biological cause for what you are feeling and it will be easily fixed once you stumble onto the right target, which hasn't yet happened. But the target is still there waiting for a bullseye.

Top pics in my opinion would be:
Passion Flower tincture, let it sit under the tongue a couple minutes before swallowing.

Skullcap, same procedure.

Ashwaghanda, same procedure.

Valerian root, capsules.

Gaba. 500mg to 1500mg a day. Theory says it won't cross the brain barrier. But for many people it actually works. I tried it a few times when I felt like I was coming unglued and it had me melting in the chair within 30 minutes. Forget theories. Do what works. Definitely worth a try.

Taurine. 500mg to 1500mg a day. Not only is it an inhibitory neurotransmitter, but it also regulates many important things in the body such as the flow of magnesium, calcium and sodium in brain cells. We all know how important magnesium is. Actually, that should be on this list also. Taurine is in foods and the body can produce some, but some people just can't produce enough of it.

Glycine. Another inhibitory neuro. Actually, some people get the best results by mixing gaba, taurine, glycine, and magnesium, and maybe 5htp, all in low doses. There is good synergism with them so you do not need anywhere near therapeutic doses of any of them, just tiny doses of each all at the same time.

Inositol, though probably not by itself. A good add on to something else, but try it by itself first to know what it feels like. High doses are usually needed, like 1 to 15 grams.

5htp. I know you tried l-trytophan. And I know about the SSRIs. They all failed. That makes sense. Maybe something is wrong so that serotonin just simply isn't being produced enough from tryptophan. Levels might be so low that there is not even enough for SSRI to help much. Anyway, conversion of tryptophan to serotonin does get messed up by lots of things, such as genetics or toxic exposure of some kind. You have not yet tried truly increasing serotonin levels until you try 5htp. It goes straight to serotonin, unlike tryptophan which has to jump many hurdles along the way and may in fact make very little serotonin when all is said and done, depending on the person's biology.
Try 12.5mg a couple nights, go up to 25mg, and keep going higher as you tolerate it. If no prob, go higher faster. Give it about a week or two. Don't do too much all at once early on or you may actually feel your symptoms worse. Your symptoms do sound like low serotonin, but if that is true, the receptors are adjusted to low serotonin and will freik out when all of a sudden correct amounts are there. Gently introduce the 5htp to them. SSRIs kept what little serotonin there was, and l-tryptophan might not have done anything at all for serotonin, but you have not tried anything yet that truly and immediately increases serotonin production without any roadblocks. As a sidenote, SSRIs can actually cause your brain to make LESS serotonin than you already had. As the receptors sense the increased serotonin, genes can kick in instructions to back off of serotonin production. Genetics always seem to try to get back to the default setting, even if they are wrong. You can over ride all this stuff with pure 5htp.

And if it is a mixed bipolar state (I hate these names that put you in a category because it just aint that simple), lithium orotate 5mg to 15mg per day. Actually, these doses of lithium are healthy and protective to the brain regardless of whether they calm things down or not.

Avoid MSG in foods. Look at the labels. Avoid aspartame. Look at the labels. Silver fillings in your teeth? Get them out pronto with a sense of urgency. Drink tons of purified water. You need an excellent diet of balanced protein, carbs, and fiber at every meal and snack, with emphasis on raw veggies and fruits, cut down bigtime on sugar and caffeine.

There are a lot of ideas here to try. There are more. These are the top ones I could think of on the spur of the moment. In your shoes, I would probably go straight to the 5htp first, and then start at the top of the list and work your way down. I would be very very surprised if you went through this list and did not find something or some combo extremely helpful or completely curative.

If you get a little bit of benefit from one, and a little bit from another, but not enough from either one alone, don't be shy about making your own combination of both. Just take lower doses of each together.


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