I just started using coffee for increased energy and to decrease depression. Coffee is a stimulant. So it will increase brain activity and decrease depression. Coffee with caffeine blocks adenosine and increases adrenaline, and dopamine.
Coffee is more effective than SSRI's in my opinion. If a patient came to me and asked for advice I would ask if they take coffee and if they said no I would prescribe coffee. Then you can go from there if the problem persists. But it seems like a great way to decrease depression and also have a fulfilling life where you have energy to get things done in your life.
It may be more effective than SSRIs acutely but tolerance does develop to the stimulant effect. Some of the positive health effects remain though but I wouldn't consider it a true anti-depressant for anything but perhaps mild depression.
It may be more effective than SSRIs acutely but tolerance does develop to the stimulant effect. Some of the positive health effects remain though but I wouldn't consider it a true anti-depressant for anything but perhaps mild depression.
Perhaps then switching between coffee and a green kratom strain (which are stimulants) would be effective. They are in the same plant family. I had to get off white kratom because it made me feel very sluggish, high, and relaxed. While green is similar to coffee.
Perhaps yeah, most of the time direct uppers or downers work the best and safest when not taken too long without cycling. So replacing the substance with something that has similar effects but works through different mechanism is smart idea.
I cycle coffee and fasting for depression. I go back and forth between the two. Both provide energy to lift above the edge before the body finds equilibrium, which for me is existential despair. I dose coffee in higher and higher amounts until it swings me into anxiety, then cut back, and cycle into fasting from food. I fast until the anxiety and depression are gone and I feel like a normal person again, only until the body finds baseline again.
Back and forth, back and forth, cycling between these two -- coffee and fasting -- have been the nearest to cures for depression and anxiety I've found. I walk a tightrope between depression on one side: don't fall: anxiety on the other side: don't fall. Normality is a balancing act where my body doesn't want to be, my biology prefers despair.
One day we'll have a cure for this disease which affects millions of people. Not yet, though. For now, mainstream provides crazy drugs and therapy for which I'm resistant. Hence endless searching.
If you live in the Baltimore, Maryland, area you may qualify for this clinical trial of psilocybin for depression through Johns Hopkins : "Effects of Psilocybin in Major Depressive Disorder" : https://clinicaltria...how/NCT03181529
This trial is Dr Roland Griffiths, find a fantastic interview with him here, about the promise of psylicibin for depression:
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