An update on GABA

This isn’t necessarily a medication so I’ll leave in diagnosed here.

This is day 5 and I’m seeing real signs of improvement. That’s all I can really say…

It does as well to keep me relaxed as 5HTP did. I’ve only taken two of those in the last two days. Bouts of sadness/anger/negativity set in a couple times so I took one to get through the day.

Obsessive focus is a lot easier to manage. The girl I fell for doesn’t totally dominate my mind anymore, but that was also settled otherwise so… no real correlation there.

All the same. I’ll update this weekly to let you know how the GABA use works over time.

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Benzos are PAMs of GABA, which basically means they cause a dramatic increase of it in your system. I wouldn’t be surprised if taking straight GABA could produce beneficial effects as well. GABA is what calms us and takes us out of fight and flight after all.

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Thanks anna… That’s good to know…

I still slip into fighting with the voices a bit…

Depakote increases GABA production - its a good med for me

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Well it’s not an antipsychotic, just calms you and helps alleviate anxiety. This would probably make threatening hallucinations less frequent/prevalent but it wouldn’t get rid of them the way an AP would.

Meh… does it well enough for me.

I don’t have negative symptoms and I don’t want any.

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That’s great! Stick with what works.

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How’s school going?

You were going for neuroscience right?

Yep still doing neuroscience. Things are going decently. I’m hoping for mostly A’s and B’s this semester.

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That’s really cool… I hope you won’t mind passing insights on to me in the future… I like collecting knowledgeable people as friends. (I’m lazy) The easiest way to learn for me is to ask the right questions to the right people.

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Sure thing! I love spreading knowledge :sunny:

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