St. John's Wort?

[Faded .45]

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but does anybody have any experience taking St. John's Wort daily for depression/anxiety? I take it because I dont want to take an anti-depressant, and right now I just want something mild and natural. I'm thinking about trying something else. Has anyone had positive or negative results taking this daily?

 

[rickolasnice]

Since taking it i have felt quite a bit better.. being able to completely stop my daily intake of SSRI's (40mg citalopram).. but that coincides with me starting to take phenibut 5days a week.. so?

St Johns Wort has been known to upregulate 5-ht (serotonin) receptors.. thats a good thing

Maybe try some phenibut, but don't take too much (as your tolerance will sky rocket) and also be careful to take breaks.. in my case i dnt take it thursdays and fridays, then have a longer (a week or 2) break when the bottle runs out, as this can lead to physical withdrawal when you wanna not take it or you simply don't have any.

 

[WorldWarMe]

Since taking it i have felt quite a bit better.. being able to completely stop my daily intake of SSRI's (40mg citalopram).. but that coincides with me starting to take phenibut 5days a week.. so?

St Johns Wort has been known to upregulate 5-ht (serotonin) receptors.. thats a good thing

Maybe try some phenibut, but don't take too much (as your tolerance will sky rocket) and also be careful to take breaks.. in my case i dnt take it thursdays and fridays, then have a longer (a week or 2) break when the bottle runs out, as this can lead to physical withdrawal when you wanna not take it or you simply don't have any.

I advise getting 5-HTP instead of St Johns Wort. If you take a dopamine persecutor with it (also cheap) then you can take 5-HTP long-term. I've read studys where patients depression lifted within several days of taking it, some almost instantly.

... Doesn't really answer your question tho lol

 

[n.fasciitis]

I heard it's good as a natural anti-depressant, so I suggested it to a friend. The only negative side effect he got from it was a headache.

 

[rickolasnice]

I advise getting 5-HTP instead of St Johns Wort. If you take a dopamine persecutor with it (also cheap) then you can take 5-HTP long-term. I've read studys where patients depression lifted within several days of taking it, some almost instantly.

... Doesn't really answer your question tho lol

That's short term and will stop taking effect once dosing stops.. infact.. i think 5-HTP downregulates 5-ht receptors.. in which case you would be worse when you stopped than before you started.

 

[WSB15]

St. John's Wort made me very tired when I tried it, so I never stuck with it. 5-HTP immediately made me feel better though, with no side-effects.

 

[HighonLife]

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but does anybody have any experience taking St. John's Wort daily for depression/anxiety? I take it because I dont want to take an anti-depressant, and right now I just want something mild and natural. I'm thinking about trying something else. Has anyone had positive or negative results taking this daily?

I've recently been doin the same thing, tryin to take St. Johns instead of SSRIs or any other pharm

i just started this week though and from what i have read it can take a few weeks before the effects truly become noticable, so we'll see how it goes