Topic Title: Need some reassurance.. please??
| |  "Need some reassurance.. please??"
, Fri 11 Apr 03:40
Hi there - I started taking SJW yesterday after a long battle with sadness and feelings of worthlessness for about 4 years.. I won't go into it.. I feel the same as many of you out there by the looks of what some of you have written. I'm just so glad that I have found out that I am not alone. Was beginning to think I was going mad.
Anyway.. I wondered how long SJW takes to start working. It's doing something although that's mostly making me feel anxious and also floppy and tired. I know I've got to give it a few weeks but I just wanted some reassurance from someone that all these feelings will go away and I will feel normal again soon. Makes me feel so sad that I have to take something in order to feel happy again. It's almost like I want a magic wand to wave and get a smile on my face. I'm hoping SJW will eventually have that effect.. am I hoping for too much????
Posts: 0 | | Registered: Fri 11 Apr 2003 3:33 |
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| |  "Re(1):Need some reassurance.. please??"
, Sun 13 Apr 18:16
Pootle, you are not alone in how you feel. I'm a very happy positive person but I constantly had those underlying thoughts of inadequacy, self doubt and just plain fear about everything.
Maybe those of who need SJW have a chemical balance, karmic debt or whatever, who cares? All I know is that by taking SJW I've never been happier. I still have some blue hours occasionally but they don't last very long.
I used to think I'm faking out the world by taking SJW, who cares about that too? As long as I'm happy and my quality of life is good, everyone else benefits that it is in my life. I don't have that constant drama and doom feelings about myself and the world.
Give the SJW about 3-4 weeks and you'll start seeing results. It took me about that long before it kicked in. If it's doing you some good, don't feel guilty about taking it.
Life is too precious to waste any days.
Posts: 6 | | Registered: Sat 22 Mar 2003 22:52 |
| | | "Re(2):Need some reassurance.. please??" , Mon 14 Apr 04:18
Thanks Yogiguru! Well.. I have been feeling a lot better in the last few days actually. Only been taking SJW now for 5 days but I seriously think it's having an effect already. Yesterday my boyfriend actually commented that it felt like he'd got his old girlfriend back - so it must be doing something..
Thanks for your words of encouragement. I wouldn't feel so bad about having to take it if it didn't interfere with other aspects of my life (i.e not being able to rely on oral contraceptives because of the drug interaction) but i guess I will get over that.
Posts: 5 | | Registered: Fri 11 Apr 2003 3:33 |
| | "Re(1):Need some reassurance.. please??" , Fri 11 Apr 09:25
Lets examine the thought you have right here:
"Makes me feel so sad that I have to take something in order to feel happy again. "
Depression is like a filter on how you view, think, feel everything in the world. Its amazing how we even feel negative towards taking something that will make us positive. Your not alone though, everyone thinks the same thoughts.
However, slowly, miracuously, god-knows how, but slowly that thought will change, and every other thought will change, as the St. John's Wort works in your system. If you haven't read already, it can take up to 8 weeks to get working. It took me about 4. Actually, I trialed it for 3 weeks, and didn't notice anything. But a month later, I tried it again, and it worked within a few days, and I'm still watching it work in me..
I think it comes to a point where your body just decides to accept it. So, my advice: Just keep taking the 900 mg (make sure your taking a good brand) and not think about it for a couple weeks. I think the tiredness, anxiety, and listlessness your feeling right now (2nd day right?) is probably just your depression. I think your probably just trying to find how you feel and since your taking SJW you think its sideeffects of the Wort. Its most likely side effects of depression.
Good luck...you'll start feeling better soon hopefully. Just remember though, when you start feeling negative towards the whole recovery process, and how it sucks to take pills, or that it won't work, or there's no way I could feel any better.....remember these are thoughts from depression, not true thoughts.
Good luck,
-Soar
Posts: 39 | | Registered: Tue 11 Feb 2003 10:6 |
| | | "Re(2):Need some reassurance.. please??" , Fri 11 Apr 15:00
Thanks Soar,
You have just made me just that little bit more positive about this. Thank you. I can't believe I have been suffering for so long and not realised that there were other people out there feeling the same. I guess my only problem with the SJW at the moment is that I have heard that the anxiety is actually caused by the SJW when you first start taking it.. I didn't have anxiety very much before, although recognised it occasionally, but now it seems constant. I am relying on the words of others on this chat forum that it WILL go away!!! I've just taken my third pill - I'm taking KIRA tablets, 900mg. IS that a good make? It doesn't say how much Hypericum is in the tablets (they are 'one a day' 900mg tabs) but it does say that they contain LI 160 extract of St John's Wort. I have no idea if that is good or not?
I WILL stick with it and I WILL do as you suggest and that is to stop thinking about it for the first few weeks. Hopefully by then i will be surprised by how much better I feel all of a sudden.
Here's hoping.
Thanks for your words of encouragement.
Posts: 1 | | Registered: Fri 11 Apr 2003 3:33 |
| | | "Re(3):Need some reassurance.. please??" , Wed 30 Apr 08:32
pootle,
it's been 3 wks, how's sjw working for you? still lathargic? if so, remember to balance serotonin (sjw) with nor-ephineprine (protein).
good luck.
Posts: 8 | | Registered: Wed 23 Apr 2003 9:43 |
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