Hi all
I just wanted to post this here, as it may be encouraging to some. The past 2 weeks I have been using St. John's Wort for my depression.
What I have noticed is a significant reduction in the severity of my DPDR.
My mood has had a noticeable lift in the positive direction, and my symptoms and obsessing have subsided.
I'm not saying the SJW has cured the problem, but what it has done is it has relaxed me and put me in a mental place so that I can make the necessary behavioral adjustments in my thoughts and actions to allow the DP to fade.
I highly recommend this. It has helped a GREAT deal with the obsessive focus and anxiety it produces. My guess has always been that DPDR begins with depression, progresses to an anxious state, then if left untreated becomes a chronic state of self awareness and self torture known as DPDR. I feel if we could somehow reduce our depressive/anxious episodes, our anxiety would mellow out, and the DP would fade. Good luck and I hope this is of some encouragement.
And to all of you anti-med folks, I too am very anti med, but this stuff has not one side effect and no noticeable withdrawal syndrome. I hate meds, but this is worth a try. Please post any successes or failures you may have if you try this approach.
On another note, I was discussing with my doctor about what exactly serotonin is and what it does. The analogy he gave me is that it is our "care" meter and it provides our brain with the ability to 'filter out' things. In other words, if serotonin is too low, the result is that we start to care about things we would normally disregard, i.e. those crazy thoughts/fears of death and insanity. If it is turned up too high, then we don't really care about anything. The goal is to be right in the middle.
Also, I notice many posts in which some members describe their difficulty with 'focusing outward'. SJW seems to make that MUCH easier.
...Ken
I just wanted to post this here, as it may be encouraging to some. The past 2 weeks I have been using St. John's Wort for my depression.
What I have noticed is a significant reduction in the severity of my DPDR.
My mood has had a noticeable lift in the positive direction, and my symptoms and obsessing have subsided.
I'm not saying the SJW has cured the problem, but what it has done is it has relaxed me and put me in a mental place so that I can make the necessary behavioral adjustments in my thoughts and actions to allow the DP to fade.
I highly recommend this. It has helped a GREAT deal with the obsessive focus and anxiety it produces. My guess has always been that DPDR begins with depression, progresses to an anxious state, then if left untreated becomes a chronic state of self awareness and self torture known as DPDR. I feel if we could somehow reduce our depressive/anxious episodes, our anxiety would mellow out, and the DP would fade. Good luck and I hope this is of some encouragement.
And to all of you anti-med folks, I too am very anti med, but this stuff has not one side effect and no noticeable withdrawal syndrome. I hate meds, but this is worth a try. Please post any successes or failures you may have if you try this approach.
On another note, I was discussing with my doctor about what exactly serotonin is and what it does. The analogy he gave me is that it is our "care" meter and it provides our brain with the ability to 'filter out' things. In other words, if serotonin is too low, the result is that we start to care about things we would normally disregard, i.e. those crazy thoughts/fears of death and insanity. If it is turned up too high, then we don't really care about anything. The goal is to be right in the middle.
Also, I notice many posts in which some members describe their difficulty with 'focusing outward'. SJW seems to make that MUCH easier.
...Ken
