St. John’s Wort has to be taken for a while before you see a benefit. I’ve been told it can take several weeks for any effect to be seen.
Re: the sunlight issue, this is well documented, I don’t know what’s out there, coping-wise, but IME Vitamin C helps. 5-7g a day eases my blues enough to be worthwhile.
I could rant for a long time about docs prescribing meds for life issues, but let’s stipulate to that and move on cause I’m too tired to type that much.
I don’t know if this would help for anger, but it does help a lot with “nerves”: desiccated liver. If anyone’s interested, ask, and I’ll write up my experience with it.
I don’t know much about St. Johns Wort, but you are correct, at least with respect to ADs. All (most) ADs (SSRIs), once you begin the standardized maiintenance dosage for a specific drug, it then takes 4-5 weeks for the drug to function as its supposed to. Some take longer, some shorter but thats the common window time. It is also during this time that individuals may experience common side effects, these may subside after the 4-5 weeks.
Right and wrong. Yes, these type of meds are used on individuals with or with a potential chemical brain imbalance or chronic (biological) depression/anxiety. However, they ARE also used treat depression/anxiety/PTSD after acute outside events (ie, loss of a loved one, car crash, etc). The body sometimes, during severe acute situations, simply respond in a way that an individual has never experienced before; and it is at these times that they may gain valuable help with controlled therapy, be it with medications or cognitive behavioural therapy or any others.
K, it seems through emperical observations and from being thorough that you have found what treatment has worked for you. But, just like training modalities, all types of therapies have to be custom tailored to the individual since not all treatment interventions are universal.