Posted by regis harold on December 16, 2006, at 17:29:30
In reply to Re: Saffron - Anti depressant, posted by verne on December 11, 2006, at 15:14:33
I read about saffron on sjwinfo.org . I tried it for about a week. It had a pretty pronounced effect on me.
My depression seems to be of the atypical subtype. I have had issues with getting good, quality sleep. This has been a long, protracted battle in my life. Generally I feel like hell in the mornings. After taking saffron the night before, I slept about 6 hours (would have preferred 8), but woke up without the irritability and for lack of a better term, "blah-ness", that I usually do. The next day I took some in the morning, and some at night, about a 100mg each time, slept through the night, sleeping a full eight hours.
So, as far as sleeping goes, it was pretty effective. But here's the catch: I had also been taking SJW, and had been for about 3 weeks. I decided that I would stop taking the saffron, and give SJW a good run.
I might try saffron again in the near future. SJW has been effective in combatting the depression, but I feel it also has been making me... pissed off. And I'm not generally a pissed-off kind of person. But I find myself really impatient with myself and others (especially when driving) - which really isn't my personality. Little things seem to set me off. While it's nice not to feel the immense burden that depression heaps on you, it would be great if I weren't annoyed at people all the time.
So once this trial of SJW is over, I may be back to saffron.
Regis
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