Posted by desolationrower on March 12, 2009, at 17:17:22
In reply to Re: Addicted to Dopamine » desolationrower, posted by Garnet71 on March 12, 2009, at 14:01:31
well theres a lot going into the 'neurotoxicity' of stimulants, and the very high dose is one those things.
you do sound like attention problems now, but what it sounds like before, is maybe hyperthymic personality, with some drops into depression, and the anxiety/attention problems at the same time? i guess if you are having panic attacks, i probably would want to go on an antidepressant, i mean i think parnate is great. how much did the ritalin help with anger, impulsivity, things like that?
as far as supplements, i sort of generaly divide between what is missing in my diet, and so is mostly stuff i think everyone should take, and then a few other things, mostly herbs, that are more like pharmaceuticals, to create unusual brain levels of something, hopefully to do somethign good like reduce anxiety or something. so, if you have any nutritional questions, go ahead, but waht i have, along with food, is
vitamin d3
vitamin k2
magnesium
fish oil
melatonin (i sort of think of this as a vitamin, in that if you have electric all that lite is causing too little production in the late evening)
b-complex
zincso it might depend on what you eat, i have some milk everyday so i don't bother with calcium.
i've mentioned those a lot, but you know feel free to ask, obviously they aren't all a strong as some parnate, but unlike other things its not going to interact, so i guess its just how much to spend to get the last few tweaks. oh you got some stuff. flax oil is ok, although fish oil is a bit better. somethign like kava or valerian, would be used like a benzo, probably once or twice a week. not sure whats in rescue remedy. rho i forget exactly waht it does. gla is weird, i'm not sure its quite figured out why it seems to be antiinflammatoryas far as something else, i guess i am most interested in st johns wort or magnolia bark, but i wouldn't be too confident there isn't some possiblitiy of an interaction.
i might ahve said something about blame, personal responsibility/mental illness, narcicists, in/extroversion, but thinking about serious topics makes me want to write long nuanced meanderings
-d/r
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