[...] A 90lb 5ft tall college girl isn't going to be able to fight off a gangrape with her strength alone, with a gun she can. [...]
and if the attacker has a gun she could be killed from a distance before she even knew there was a bad guy out to get her...
Necrophilia is pretty uncommon.
Which is why the Germans used chlorine gas a weapon? It's a matter of dosage and treatment. There are a whole lists of common chemicals we can mix to create 'irritating' poisonous gasses that will kill you if you are locked in a room with them. Besides, I'm pretty sure 'irritating' is a bit of an understatement for chlorine.
Chlorine bleach + aqueous ammonia produces chloramine, not chlorine. Chloramine is used to treat municipal drinking water; it has no history as a chemical weapon.
Let my
Pirate
Goooooo...
Whatever you say, buddy.
withdrawal presents as a rapid, dysphoric return of depression symptoms—perhaps worse in intensity than their initial/untreated state?
Initially yes. I wasn't expecting it but I caught myself being very emotional and realized that must be what it was. It leveled off rather quickly. The Wiki in my OP explains how 5-HTP is able to absorb into the brain and become 5-HT or Serotonin. Interestingly 5-HT cannot be absorbed into the brain. Since Serotonin is linked to mood it makes sense an increased level would have a positive effect.
Interestingly 5-HT cannot be absorbed into the brain. Since Serotonin is linked to mood it makes sense an increased level would have a positive effect.
I was surprised to see that 5-HTP is categorized as a sleep-aid anda nootropic, what with the former class being generally dominated by stimulants.
I'm actually replying because I neglected to mention my main reason for speculating that the crash was fast and severe: Unlike SSRIs with their multiple-week delay before they (are supposed to) become effective, and bupropion (which has a somewhat quicker, but rather subtle effect), imipramine is profoundly effective beginning on day one. Sometimes when I get to the end of the Rx and I don't feel a sense of urgency (or I'm just unable to get to the pharmacy)... If it slips my mind during the subsequent few days, I experience a very nasty reminder—the speculative description I asked you to confirm hits me like a bolt from the blue—one second I'm fine, the next I'm tearing up and wishing for a real bolt from the blue. Once I get it again, though, its full effect is restored in less than one hour.
My apologies if my wordy anecdote lacked substance... I was skeptical of swalve's warning, and was curious if sudden cessation of a naturally-occurring dietary supplement could actually slap down a patient as hard as a severe, 60-year-old Rx.
What you've describe is sadness, not depression.
In any event... try this.
Was there some anxiety brewing within that surpassed your threshold and required you to post a "correction"?
I hadn't formulated my own hypothesis prior to reading your post—I shall credit you, Anonymous Coward, with providing me with one, should the motivation behind comment #42222951 ever come under further scrutiny.
Thank you, buddy.
I noticed improvement after the very first dose [of 5-Hydroxytryptophan].
Be careful with that stuff, the crash if you miss a dose can be brutal.
I ran out 2 days ago and haven't made it to the store. And yes I have noticed.
Am I correct in speculating that the withdrawal presents as a rapid, dysphoric return of depression symptoms—perhaps worse in intensity than their initial/untreated state?
The reason I'm curious is that that is exactly what I experience following cessation of the prescribed tricyclic imipramine (Tofranil), which is—by far—the most efficacious of the numerous anti-depressants (belonging to three classes) that I've tried. The only other AD that I didn't shit-can posthaste was bupropion (Wellbutrin), an NDRI. In my experience (and as related to me by others), SSRIs are absolute garbage.
I can say with a 110% confidence that SSRIs work wonders for me [...]
They're certainly not working wonders for your mathematics aptitude.
Really, "depressed" and "depression" aren't both just forms of the word "depress"? They just happen to look alike? Wow.
GP said "feeling depressed," which is tantamount to saying "feeling cancer-ridden."
Pliskin?
I thought he was dead...?
All this 'gun printing' talk is what's going to be used to help get 3dprinters banned or require a license to even buy/own. it's going to have controls slapped on it somewhere.
Stop fucking telling people that doing this shit guys. Until they are everywhere they are way easy to regulate and control.
You're not helping. serious.
Yeah, guys, quit exercising your first and second amendment rights before we're not allowed to exercise them anymore.
When I was your age, we took the hoods off our cars and drove them around like that.
Now get off my lawn, kid!
Any chance you drove a Gran Torino?
*deep, annoyed sigh*
Do you emit that noise with every breath, or only when someone has the audacity to criticize your beloved corporate overlord?
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