Posted by sk85 on December 25, 2013, at 16:11:53
Dear all,
I'm writing to you as on of the most sensitive and experienced minds in psychoactive medicines. I have recently made a bold decision do add onto my regular 50 mg Zoloft the herbal supplement rhodiola rosea. I'm aware of the potential dangers of combining an SSRI with potential MAOI (although rhodiola's MAOI potency is still a matter of debate).
My rationale was that as I have grown relatively strongly accoustemed to sertraline's SSRI effects over the past 5 months, the dangers of serotonin syndrome would not be so apt to manifest with this add-on.
The results are quite surprising for me, although, I am far from being able to categorize this as merely "positive" or "negative", and my trial is ongoing.
But. I have definately noticed a shift in cognition. As my background diganosis has mostly been OCD/depression with slight bipolar tendencies, I have mostly always been a bit out of tune with the "common" every day problems people have. Now, all of the sudden I seem to have gained an interesting bit of social cognition and sensitivity to other people's emotions (that usually reached me with rather vague impression). I'm more emotional, but in a good way (depression usully ends with flatness and this seems to be residing).
On the balancing side, rhodiola add-on has made me a bit excessively ruminating and maybe more easily sensitive to other people's remarks. I'm also experiencing a mild hypomanic properties (mind seems to come up with ingenious solutions and is working 95% capacity...which for me can be warning sides if this does nót level out).
We'll see. But all in all I find the combination to have some very interesting dynamics. And I will continue to see how all of this levels out in the 3 week period to come (rhodiola does seem to have some startup period so some of the changes might be just a temporary glitches).
Has anyone else experimented with this combination and what has been your results?
How would this combination have a net effect on neurotransmission?
All ideas are welcome.BEst,
-ikaros
poster:sk85
thread:1056988
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