Reddit reviews Feel Bright Light Portable Light Therapy Device with Rechargable Battery and Charger
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Portable - The world’s smallest bright light device, weighing in at only 2 ounces.Convenient - attaches beneath the included visor, allowing you the freedom to receive light while performing other activities.Most Effective Blue-Green LED Technology - long-lasting LED bulbs produce blue-green light (+/- 500 nanometers wavelength) that delivers light from above the eye.Rechargeable - lithium polymer batteries which means it can provide up to four uses before recharging.Standard Model - Hat and carrying case not included.
I use this from September - April every year. Total game changer if you suffer from SAD.
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Why did you get started on lamotrigine, gabapentin, and quetiapine all at the same time, lol? Psychs are usually reluctant to start 2 at once, let alone 3.
I've been eating a lot of canned sardines, herring, and salmon for the last year hoping that was sufficient but I'm going to try supplementing 1g/d of 100% EPA as per these studies: 1, 2.
We should probably take zinc 30 mg/d: 1, 2. I tried 15 mg/d with no effects a while ago, going to try again at this dose.
The antidepressant/anxiolytic effects of mirtazapine through its actions at 5-HT2Rs and adrenergic receptors should be fairly robust. All sedative antihistamines tend to develop tolerance quickly so any anxiolysis and sleep-improvement through that MoA is going to be fleeting. Maybe downregulating histamine receptors through daily use of modafinil?
Another thing I bought, which should be arriving today, is this doohickey. BLT (heh) has only modest efficacy in non-seasonal MDD, but it's something. I'm hoping to normalize my sleep patterns somewhat.
Since you seem so interested in the gut, have you ever looked at the effect of low dose psychedelics on the gut? (Which is not to suggest that mirtazapine, as an inverse agonist, is a bad idea to take... it also usually improves IBS.) The classical psychedelics (psilocin, LSD, and related compounds), are interesting to me as they combine so many antidepressant mechanisms - 5-HT1A agonism, 5-HT2B agonism, the anti-inflammatory effects from 5-HT2A agonism, 5-HT6 agonism, and the classical introspection therapy. With the lysergamides I can really feel the rebound restless legs as the dopamine agonism wears off; it overwhelms my RLS med; that's my only gripe with them.
Anyway, I'd probably try going back on the mirtazapine again? I don't think there's much evidence or theoretical reason why any of the tricyclics/tetracyclics/atypical antipsychotics would work better, and you already know you can tolerate mtz. If it stops working, you could try adding in an SSRI/SNRI instead of monotherapy with them. The 5-HT2C and 5-HT3 blockade from mirtazapine should block many of their negative side effects. [PDF] The one I take and recommend is venlafaxine, as it has been specifically studied as a combo with mtz, and it has a similarly active metabolite so that hyper/hypometabilizers will still get an effect.
As far as glutamatergics, I'm hopeful about deschloroketamine, a "legal" RC that's recently become available on the clearnet. Hype about glutamatergics has died down a bit as all of them seem to be markedly inferior to K in depression; hopefully DCK is close enough in pharmacology to work.
I also take a beta blocker to help with racing heart beat from panic attacks and anxiety.
That was a brilliant plan. I'd love to see how well it works for PST.
For future trips you could get a light therapy device to make your "night" flight less sleepy.
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The year I realized this was such a thing for me, we had cloudy weather for almost a month straight. I remember crying to my husband that I hadn't seen the sun in two weeks, and running out to the front yard when the sun came out for a brief moment one afternoon.
My psychiatrist recommended this sun light, and it helped a lot. Something about the type of light (it's green) and positioning over your eyes makes it particularly effective.