I find this interesting as I'm researching L Methylfolate and I take 800 to 1600mcg daily as it's in my homocysteine formula. Now I'm finding more on the depression issue and pharma now has a "food grade drug"....it's pricey as I checked today. One can get otc
L Methylfolate and I think I'm going to take a little more daily to see if I get a Happy Lift...

Otc supp is still much lower strength than the drug mentioned in this article. There doesn't seem to be much of a side effect issue.

http://mental-health.emedtv.com/l-me...-benefits.html

As always do your research.

My friend reminded me of the importance of optimal B12 and especially when taking higher Methylfolate. We talk about the importance of B12 here all the time.

Thanks DejaVu for this thread! I have a lot of med intolerances...

Many out there have undiagnosed and untreated thyroid issues, a big one in t his area is Depression, I've been that route for 10 yrs...and it was sluggish thyroid.

I had depression once.

With skilled help from in particular a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist I think of myself as cured

Both of them used Cognitive Behavioral methods with me.

Sounds like your issue was not clinical, but situational. I see situational as the ups and downs we need to work thru in our lives... and

Clinical needs support otherwise...Like getting thyroid supported as I did.

Life is full of ups and downs, if you are human, and to me these are NOT depressions.

And many were found to "low" moods due to Vit D deficiency.

Just by the way...

Depression Definition and DSM-5 Diagnostic Criteria

Clinical depression can be a very serious condition. It's associated with high rates of death from suicide.

Clinical depression is different from depression caused by a medical condition such as Thyroid disorder and other medical conditions.

Clinical depression: What does that mean? - Mayo Clinic

Hi Kiwi,
It's great that you were able to get such beneficial treatment. I was seriously depressed at one time when I was young but they didn't have very good treatment options back then.

A lot of the people I know who have had CBT for various reasons, including anxiety and ocd and depression etc, in more recent years have found help. I've seen it work so well in other people. I think that if I'd done CBT way back then, I would have learned a lot more useful coping mechanisms and overcome some negative thought patterns and behaviours that were set up in childhood and that affected the way I dealt with some pretty awful times in my life.

Many may be in the depression world due to a low functioning sluggish thyroid. I was there for 10 yrs with a slew of docs
who kept missing the issue and kept hitting me with A/D drugs, 10 ugly years. I've talked about it here and also many coudl
be taking thyroid drugs that are NOT working for them, they are ineffective. I know of this one too.

There is much more than the synthetic lab produced Synthroid meds.....