Topic Title: Here's my update on Rhodiola, and you Sonic?
| |  "Here's my update on Rhodiola, and you Sonic?"
, Mon 3 Mar 23:27
Hey Sonic , I just wanted to check in with you on how your doing...can you post on how your feeling?? I'll post for me:
Its been 1 week since I started Rhodiola Rosea. Last tuesday, I got some in a panic because I just wasn't feeling good. I had taken St. John's Wort for 3 weeks and still wasn't feeling that great. Well, I started out on a Solaray Rhodiola brand, but quickly switched to the Arctic Root Swedish Herbal Institute brand. About 4 days ago I stopped taking the St. John's Wort.
I've been taking a lot more of Rhodiola than the recommended dose. I guess I was just impatient, and I wanted something to work. Also, one of the uses is you can take 3 times the recommended dose an hour before a mental or physical task that you need to be energetic and focused for. Well, I have been taking probably 8 pills a day when you only need 2. But then again, I have pretty bad depression, so it takes a lot more to lift me up. Plus, once it builds up in my system I will come back down to a normal dose.
I noticed that I started feeling different over the weekend. For some reason my outlook wasn't so dead-ended and dreary. I went out on a friday night with some friends, and instead of feelings horrible and non-talkative, I instead had little spurts of where I felt actually decent. These were very little though, but enough that I realized somethign was different. Ever since then I've been having more of the "good" times and less of the bad. I think its now starting to build up in my system. Its so weird to go through this recovery. Because you get to experience both different worlds. At this point, I'm still a little cautious about my good moods, because I've been depressed for so long that I don't know what to trust. I think once I even out into a better mood I'll feel even better. But its definitely a good thing.
Socially, I'm doing a lot better. I think its so hard to be good socially when your depressed, because everything seems so empty, including other people. Also, when people hang out with you when your depressed, its no fun. Your not human, and its hard to enjoy all the human experiences. Since its been awhile since I've been depressed, people have to get used to this new me. This more upbeat positive me. So this will take time. But now I'm starting to find myself getting caught up in a story, or laughing, or talking about old memories. I've noticed my friends are responding alot more to me, because I'm just a lot more fun to be around. However I'm still in the early stages of this recuperation I feel, and conversations still at times feel empty and pointless. But instead of always feeling pointless its kind of on/off.
I definitely am feeling a "lift" though. And the lift has been getting better and better. I would probably say that in 2 weeks I will be a ton better, and by week 3 be pretty much stable again. I want to say also that I am in a pretty stressful period in my life. So the Rhodiola seems to be doing something even in the midst of this.
Tonight I had a pretty depressing thought though that I hope will probably be the last of them.. I just felt like this whole life was pointless, and everything felt so colorless and emotionless and feelingless. Everything seemed so fake and pointless. But, instead of those thoughts lingering around and dragging me down, remarkably within 15 minutes I didn't feel that way anymore! I came home and found myself in a conversation where I was laughing. The rhodiola is working.
These were the same signs I noticed when I first started taking Paxil. I remember I slowly started gettings better, and it was just an upward spiral. So I'm really excited to see what happens!!
By the way, I don't want to say that St. John's Wort is bad. I know it works for a lot of people. I think though that there isn't just one kind of depression, there are different types that effect different areas of the brain. I think depressed people who are too emotional would probably find st. john's wort to be good, because it tends to dull the emotions. I however have a kind of depression where my emotions are already dulled, so Rhodiola seems to do more for me. Plus I have attentional issues which Rhodiola addresses....
-Soar
Posts: 22 | | Registered: Tue 11 Feb 2003 10:6 |
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, Tue 4 Mar 14:27
Glad your feeling better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the mo ive got glandular fever and on anti-biotics and under loadsa stress at uni, so I aint too hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But through it all I feel really happy and balanced now.
Definitely less shy, like you. ive been noticing this lately.
Ill update in a couple of weeks when I feel better.
I fell ok though, just knackered cos of this bloody virus!!!!
Posts: 9 | | Registered: Sun 19 Jan 2003 10:37 |
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