After some careful thought, I’ve decided to quit Alpha GPC and switch to L Theanine.
I’ve decided that this decision should help me slowly lower my nicotine intake and help me quit it. If it wont, at least I wont be using a lot of nicotine as I do now.
im starting l theanine also, ive read alot of good things about it, should be here in a few days
How did you find Alpha GPC to be? Was it helpful for cognitive issues?
Ah.
In Europe alpha-GPC is a prescription medication for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
I can’t import it then or I could get into trouble.
It was okay, nothing too special. I’m positive L Theanine will positively impact my cognition better than Alpha GPC did.
I used to take racetams with it. Really helped. But it could have caused some psychiatric issues. Not sure. It increases dopamine. I took aniracetam. Felt more holistic in my thinking and more creative.
I tried racetams, but didn’t feel much off of them.
I think @naturallycured had a bad experience with Piracetam.
I had great results with racetams, but they are just too expensive so I have had to stop taking them. They really helped with motivation and concentration. I did loads of art work while I was on them. It’s sad because that was what I was like before my last episode which I never fully came back from.
Piracetam was not safe. Ignorant posters on the web were saying that you could take unlimited amounts of it safely, and I took that advice. It ruined my life slowly at first, but before I knew it I was hospitalized after walking around for hours having a crazy narrative going on in my head, and was returned home, and a few weeks later I kept taking it and did the same thing, leading to another hospitalization.
I almost had insight at this point and stopped taking it, but I was still prodromal and losing my mind. I took a hidden supply I had and had a full blown meltdown, angrily fighting with my dad who I thought was controlling my reality because of weird-ass correlations between things he did and my thoughts.
Screw Piracetam anymore, and the various racetams. The key to true, stable recovery is not racetams, IMO, it’s letting the body heal itself by eating enough dietary antioxidants to counter the pro-oxidants being consumed, leading to a net positive antioxidant intake and marginal, something like 1% recovery every day.
If the dietary balance is towards pro-oxidants, and you have a weak blood-brain barrier, the oxidative stress concentrates in the brain and it gets damaged progressively, day by day, and psychosis creeps up on you subtly.
First you get paranoid about people watching you, then you start getting obsessed about government surveillance conspiracies. Before you know it, your stressed, anxious, damaged brain is weaving every little inane sound it hears into some crazy narrative. Around then is when the voices start to happen.
It’s a formulaic decline that I find is actually reversible with the right approach. Antipsychotics help in a bandaid fashion, but you need to be winning that antioxidant fight every day to wrest stability and sanity back from the jaws of psychosis, otherwise you’ll just make things worse and worse.
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