Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results?
palordrolap@fedia.io 1 day ago
I can't say they improved my mood much, so there wasn't a great deal to notice, but I have noticed a distinct lack in extreme lows since I started taking it.
The trouble with mood-altering and mood-stabilising medications (and behaviours if you count things like exercise) is that they can affect perception not only in the present, but about past thoughts and behaviours too, so spotting any obvious change might require some effort.
Case in point, it took me a long while to notice that I haven't been having the crushing lows, and part of me still believes that it's not the Vitamin D that's responsible.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Thank you!! That a powerful description of what I’ve had going on for years - I’m a very emotional thinker and can sometimes feel adrift on things (with no perspective) as the thinking patterns and brain chemicals change replacing the lense I experience everything through
palordrolap@fedia.io 14 hours ago
Well for whatever it's worth, you're welcome.
That "feeling adrift" sounds a little bit how depersonalisation and/or derealisation were described to me when I was trying to get diagnoses. I didn't feel like they fit my experience of mental illness at all (everything feels real enough (maybe too much), and I've never felt adrift), and I'm not a doctor so I'd be the last person to try to diagnose either in someone else, but they might be things for you to look into.