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[lostmyway]

I still find the morning is the worst time - tiredness,  irritability etc.  It's still too early to say, but I didn't feel as tired yesterday and didnt need to goto bed before 11PM, which has been happening a lot.  No, she didn't suggest any coping mechanism while i was transitioning to the new drug.  I'm expecting side-effects while that is going on because that's what I expect from them, due to previous experience.  Would I recommend taking them? not if you can help it.  Stay off them and use holistic and other methods if you can make them work, would be my advice.  I am tired right now, as I am writing this...

[Amanda_George]

Do you like the flavour of coconut?  Maybe give that a try if you do?  You have to eat/drink a lot of it before you notice a difference (as in a litre of coconut milk for a single point increase on the mood scale or a dessert spoon's worth of coconut oil in hot water) but it does lift your mood ever so slightly.  It needs to be the first/only ingredient in the product though, otherwise there isn't enough coconut in it to work.

Do you know how to meditate?  If you do, maybe try that as soon as you wake up, before you get out of bed too?  Just to try and ease the irritability before it starts kinda thing?

[lostmyway]

I have tried coconut milk, it was a little thin but the flavour of coconut is fine.  I have tried soy millk also (Alpro).
I found this on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkbM5EfFyME

[Amanda_George]

There's something within the coconut that very slightly helps with depression, just like ginger helps with nausea.  Totally agree with you about the coconut milk being too thin, but you get used to it after a while.  I haven't got a choice about using soya milk 'cos I'm allergic to animal (cow, sheep and goat) milk... tried 'em all with the same effect - me throwing up for several hours afterwards and feeling sick for a week so never again.  I find soya milk to be waaay too strong but the coconut milk isn't too bad after a while.

Thank you for that YouTube link... is it the sort of thing you can listen to overnight or is it best to be awake when you listen to it please?  It's just that it's over 5 hours long is all so it'd be better if I could listen to it at night so that I can be productive during the day is all.

[lostmyway]

You could listen to that music anytime, I would say.

[Amanda_George]

Groove and cooly... I'll set it going now and will hopefully be finished by the time I head to bed tonight   

[lostmyway]

I would try smartphone and headphones, that's what I use.

[Amanda_George]

It's playing through my headphones on my laptop and the last half an hour of it has achieved what listening to the radio and reading half a magazine achieves each night!  Thank you so much for the link... it's soooo relaxing!

[lostmyway]

Good to hear 

[Amanda_George]

Thank you so so much for that link... it's loooooong but definitely worth it so far!

[lostmyway]

It's very long, but pretty effective.

[Amanda_George]

Too right!  I slipped straight into being asleep last night, where it would usually take reading half of a magasine and listening to the radio... gonna put it on again now!  Thank you so so much, Lost!  Where did you find out about it btw please?

[lostmyway]

Oh, there are plenty of them on YouTube.  Look under 'meditation music' or similar to that?

[lostmyway]

I like this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss7EJ-PW2Uk

[Amanda_George]

Thank you so much.  Got about 45 minutes left of the original one you sent yesterday then I'll listen to the second one as soon as it's finished