Topic Title: Is my semi-prophylactic approach valid?
| |  "Is my semi-prophylactic approach valid?"
, Wed 26 Oct 07:47
I got into a nasty state the summer before last, but because I was a student doing exams I didn't really need to do anything so I just walked around in a daze for a bit. Then things perked up at the beginning of the autumn, but by the winter they had gone badly downhill again, and because it was normal term-time the fact that I wasn't doing enough (academic) work etc. was beginning to come through. But I dragged on as by then I had worked out how to do a minimum to get by at a low level. Then my girlfriend (of five years) left me and though I went into a bit of a tailspin, at the least I had something to sort of pin everything on and structure it around. Around about Easter I got into a state again, but not so that I couldn't just push on through it. It feels, however, as if it's getting worse every time. I've been semi-normal since the mid-summer, but I decided this September that I wasn't going to let things get bad again, so I've been taking sjw since a few days before October started. I think things are a bit better, but I've had a few lots of a few days - eg some last week - when I feel like everything's going to swallow me up again. Though this, of course, makes me unproductive in a way I can't explain or excuse, I could probably get by with it if it weren't for the fear I now have of it coming back; because just a bit later than this time last year of course that was what was happening. I'm now having to structure my career choices around my lack of confidence in this area, and I am rather frightened that it will keep recurring, only worse and with fewer support mechanisms in place, and that I will eventually be worn down and commit suicide which, though I may desire it intensely sometimes, I feel would be very wrong. Is taking the sjw semi-prophylactically in this way appropriate?
I've never, of course, seen a doctor about any of this as it is rather too vague.
Oh, and as I am rather scatty I sometimes forget to take the pills for a day or two. Is this risky? If I can't rely on myself to take them every day, should I come off them altogether?
Posts: 2 | | Registered: Sun 12 Jun 2005 13:55 |
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| | "Re(1):Is my semi-prophylactic approach valid?" , Sat 29 Oct 08:20:
I too occasionally forget to take my SJW, and my opinion is this. Since it took exactly 30 days for me to feel any effects at all from SJW, even though I was taking 900 -1200 mg per day, then if I skip one or two capsules today, I'm not going to feel the effect of that for 30 more days. However, at that point, as long as I've been taking most of the capsules and haven't missed days and days of them, my body already has built up a good "therapeutic level" of the stuff, and missing the few capsules may not make a very big difference, if any at all. Taking some is better than none, since SJW really does work, and I've never read anything that would lead me to believe that there would be any harm in skipping a day or even two -- it shouldn't harm you, but you won't reach the full potential that you could if you took it regularly. So why wouldn't you want to reach the full effect -- why not set an alarm to help yourself to remember to take it? ON THE OTHER HAND: if you are contemplating suicide EVER, then you may very well need something stronger, and/or you need to be monitored by a physician/psychiatrist/therapist... some sort of professional! Most depression is "vague" and without a specific cause, they understand that. Life is awesome if we can get ourselves in balance, get healthy, strong, etc. A semi-prophylactic approach is better than nothing, but you sound like you need more than that. Even seeing a naturopath can put you on the right path to being healthy, as there are so many more supplements that you can take besides SJW to help you feel better and be healthier. You also sound like you need some accountability -- someone who's checking up on you to make sure that you're taking the stuff. My naturopath has done that for me. Whatever you decide, good luck.
[this message was edited by lmb on Sat 29 Oct 08:24]
Posts: 6 | | Registered: Wed 19 Oct 2005 7:35 |
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