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Need help with 5 htp and tyrosine

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phoenixsfire

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I started taking 5 htp and tyrosine 8 months ago to treat my depression as per the mood cure book. I also take all the vitamins and supplements she recommends. For the first time in my life I felt amazing for the first couple of months but the effect slowly started to wear off. Now I'm almost back to the depressed state I was in. I've increased the doses as time went by but they seem to have almost no effect at this point. I am DESPERATE for help! I've read to cycle the aminos as the body gets used to them. What do I cycle 5 htp and tyrosine with? Will this help? There must be someone out there who has experience with amino acids and supplements. I've run out of ideas. My mood keeps getting worse and sometimes things look hopeless. I've been on anti depressants for 20 years and a currently on Wellbutrin. Someone anyone I need help.
PLEASE!!!
 
Hi,

I used to be depressed as well. My brain shut down and I couldn't think. I must have taken every prescribed drug out there from Zoloft to Prozac. I used to self medicate myself with marijuana, but the one thing that brought me out of the box was eating 2~3 grams of mushrooms. It helped me analyze myself and helped me find out what was wrong with my life. It brought on a new perspective onto my life. I think the one thing that helped me was finding purpose in my life. I gave myself a purpose and gave myself a reason to live for tomorrow. Getting out of depression is a long process. You need to get stronger and get off your dependency off of drugs and find things that stimulate your mind. Find something that you love to do. Find something that you enjoy doing that's healthy. I didn't know what that was so I practically tried everything from skate boarding, cycling, surfing, getting into knitting, painting, arts and crafts, guitar, piano, drums, gardening, cooking, etc. There's a whole world out there for you. Find love in everything you do because everything you do is amazing! Humans before the invention of anti-depressant pills dealt with the problems on their own. Depression wasn't even a world until the doctors used it to make millions of dollars of money to have people get dependent on the drug. Have strength in yourself and you should be able to get out of your hole.

Focus on yourself. Love yourself. Meditate on what you think. Follow your thoughts. Meditate on your breath. Meditate on what you say. Become aware of yourself. Become aware of what you feel. You are in control of yourself. Don't be too hard and judgmental on yourself. You are your own worst critic. Control yourself. Become aware. Become enlightened. Empower yourself. Be strong. Live life to the fullest. Don't let these things pull you down. Life is not a burden. Life should be a dance.

To answer your question you should look up MAOI, but it would be extremely fatal mix with SSRIs so I would strongly advise against it. Just read the Wikipedia and you'll find out it's not good for you.
MAOIs should not be combined with other psychoactive substances (antidepressants, painkillers, stimulants, both legal and illegal etc.) except under expert care. Certain combinations can cause lethal reactions, common examples including SSRIs, tricyclics, MDMA, meperidine,tramadol, and dextromethorphan. Agents with actions on epinephrine, norepinephrine, or dopamine must be administered at much lower doses due to potentiation and prolonged effect.

Take some vitamin C and get some exercise 1 hr a day. It'll turn your life around. Good luck my friend. I wish the best for your life.

Jai Ma!
 
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I grew acclimatized to 5-htp waaaay faster, but yeah depression is hard to deal with. If you've been taking an SNRI and it's not doing it for you, why even bother staying on it? I wrote a blog post recently (click the link under my name) about amino acids to fight depression but the biggest part of it is being willing to change your whole lifestyle to foster a healthier frame of mind.
 
Right on the dot thujone. I see many people getting dependent on synthetic drugs for self-medicated treatments. SSRIs is like Nyquil. It's a symptom suppressant and just helps you get over the hump. It doesn't really do anything to fix your cold. Your body has to naturally get over it.
 
What bothers me a bit is how you correlate your mood primarily on those amino acids. Depression is an integrated type system where different parts of the body react and make a causality of each-other, and I suspect there are other external circumstances that is causing you to feel like crap. I merely ask you to treat your depression by eating right, exercising, forming positive relationships and aspiring long-term goals.
 
I was going to say something very similar to what jaishivaya said. Mushrooms are the best anti-depressant because they teach the brain how to be happy again and produce its OWN goddamn neurotransmitters! Adding precursors like 5-htp and tyrosine is just a band-aid, no matter how more effective than pharmaceutical anti-depressants it may be.

( I hope someone reputable publishes a paper entitled "Psychedelics: the Future of Psychiatry" soon )
 
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