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Posted by Sienna7 on August 20, 2009, at 13:49:55
Hi. This is my first time on here. I am wondering if sam-e or 5htp is good for anger. What about other supplements? I used to be good at letting things roll off my back but more and more I am a time bomb and can explode at any moment and it's starting to really effect my relationship badly. I just started taking a muti-vitamin along with calcium and magnesium a couple days ago thinking maybe I'm really deficient in something? Everything I read about is always about depression. What about anger? (This even gets me angry! ha!)Perhaps my anger is a form of depression? I ride a rollercoaster of emotions. I am tired of this ride and am ready to get off and take charge and not allow my anger to be in control. I'm a 33 year old female if that helps. Thanks for any support. I need it.
Posted by bleauberry on August 20, 2009, at 17:48:23
In reply to Sam-e or other natural support for anger?, posted by Sienna7 on August 20, 2009, at 13:49:55
SAM-e is usually stimulative and has a fairly decent chance of making anger issues worse. Agitation, anxiety, and insomnia are fairly common side effects when starting it or taking too much.
For quick calming, 5htp would be a good first try. I am totally convinced the doses they sell are much too high. Someone should empty out the capsules and start with 5mg, work upward by 5mg as tolerated to find their best dose. 5htp is generally calming and serene. But as happens sometimes with serotonin antidepressants, it can in a minority of people have the opposite effect of irritation. Not likely, but it happens.
SJW can be a bit stimulating the first few days, especially if started at regular doses, but within a couple weeks it is generally very calming. Brands vary so much it is trial and error. If someone tried one or two different brands of SJW and didn't have a good experience, they still really haven't given SJW a fair try. The brands are that much different. At a SJW forum there are people that didn't do well on 3 or 4 different brands and then stumbled onto some other brand that worked great. Sometimes that other magic brand was a researched brand and sometimes it was an el cheapo from the local WalMart or RiteAid or Whole Foods. Everyone responds different.
For really fast calming, carry a tincture of Passionflower and/or Skullcap with you. A few drops of those should smooth things out. Natural dietary things would include magnesium supplementation, and gaba/glycine combination.
Posted by Sienna7 on August 20, 2009, at 18:30:04
In reply to Re: Sam-e or other natural support for anger?, posted by bleauberry on August 20, 2009, at 17:48:23
Thanks. I'm going to look into the SJW and the gaba/glycine. Also, I am going to work on my diet and cut out alot of sugar. Sometimes I think I might be hypoglycemic.
Posted by bleauberry on August 22, 2009, at 14:57:44
In reply to Re: Sam-e or other natural support for anger?, posted by Sienna7 on August 20, 2009, at 18:30:04
> Thanks. I'm going to look into the SJW and the gaba/glycine. Also, I am going to work on my diet and cut out alot of sugar. Sometimes I think I might be hypoglycemic.
Sounds good.
Researched quality-consistent brands are Perika and Kira. Perika is ususally perceived as being more activating, Kira more calming, though any brand can feel activating the first few days especially if the dose is too high. Start real low and work up.
Keep in mind, some people get worse or get nothing from those, but instead do very well on cheap ones from WalMart or Whole Foods. You have to try several different brands if the first one or two don't do well. And you have to play with dosing times. All in the morning, all before bed, split up during the day....people have encoutered dramatically different results depending on the dosing strategy.
Sugar. If you cut out a lot of sugars, and in the next few days start to feel bad...tiredness, fatigue, strong sugar cravings, mild flu-like, hints of aches and pains...you just made a diagnosis. Candida. If you have a candida overgrowth, which I believe most mentally suffering people do, they will start to die off in mass without their sugar. The result is too much of their corpses and toxins flooding you, called a Herxheimer reaction. Feels bad, but is actually good because it is diagnostic as well as a first step toward getting better. Might not happen. If it does, you'll know what's up.
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