10th week on 100 not good today at all

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Ive been on 100 sert for 9 and a half weeks,today feel as though im back to where i started feeling empty depressed as anything,got a lot of worries at moment also,have had some ok days and some wouldnt say i felt goood but i was functioning better than i was.My daughter playing up for her mum and i have to hear about it every day i know im her dad but its stressfull we dont live together,my son who is 15 chooses to ignore me after me doing what i can for him all his life.I seem to post on here looking for advice and its the same pattern ok for a bit then crash thinking i need to up my dose?as i felt i was coping better with life still felt like crap but coping better today feel like world is on top of me again.

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    Asked somebody if he had any good days in lower doses, here is his answer, it might help you too:

    I didn't have any really noticeably good days at 100. I remember hearing that things get better in a few weeks, but never seemed to turn a corner. And I was so nervous about going up because I didn't want to make things worse. But, as I got to 200, I finally started to feel better. I'm now at the point were I don't struggle with it (I'm still taking 200 a day). I'm back to feeling myself and not having those dark days anymore. I might still get some anxiety or sad about something, but it feels like the normal emotions that anyone would have. But, aside from increased dose, some other things that helped:

    I tried to get some exercise every day, exercise that got my heart rate up. This always helped.

    Read a book on anxiety and depression and learned that by simply starting to read a book like that makes people feel better. And for me it did, made me feel like there's things I can do.

    Ate better. I read that there's research that suggests inflammation is associated with depression. This inflammation, as I understand it, is the normal type of inflammation that can occur due to bad diet and habits. So, I tried to find foods to fight inflammation (there are several) and it helped.

    There are some supplements that might help, such as curcumin and methlyfolate. The first fights inflammation and the second is a form of folate that can be metabolized by individuals that have a disorder that prevents them from metabolizing the normal form of folate found in many multivitmins and food.

    In the winter I do light therapy in the morning to get a good dose of light exposure. Seems to help a bit.

    I tried to talk to someone about what I was going through. Talking about it helps.

    Found a new job. My job was what drove me into a depression and cycle of anxiety. I was working way too much. I learned that I simply needed to make a change. And in general, I learned that if something isn't making me happy, I need to change it (walk away from it, work to make it different, etc.). Keep it simple and just do it.

    Increasing your dosage might help. And all the things above are worth trying. I know what it's like to be where you're at, but know that you can get out of it and you will.

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