Start the supplement stack two weeks in, not 4 months in.
You will probably not recover within 6 months, sorry to say. If it was a mild psychosis then I could see you recovering in just 2 weeks even, or yes, certainly within 6 months. But if you are saying it is "rock bottom psychosis" what I gleam from that is a total breakdown of your nervous system: your sense of self, your ability to process data, your memory, attention and focus all frazzled. Coming out of that is like coming out of a coma and recovery is measured in years.
Starting supplements later than sooner will severely retard the progress. When you actually DO start them 4 months in, you will slap yourself around the head and think "why the hell did I just put myself through 4 months of needless torture when I could have just started there and then".
So here are my recommendations:
- Throw in some green superfood powders (they come in a tub and you chuck a scoop into your shake and get 8 servings worth of fruit and veg in one go). Also, make vegetable smoothies using spinach, kale, broccoli & carrots as your base; here's David Murdock's guide to some brilliant foods. He's a billionaire. Listen to him. He's a frickin billionaire. LISTEN. TO. HIM.
- Keep the creatine at a dose of 4-5g. You're recovering from psychosis, you do not have a choice in the matter. Anything stupid you do now to impede your recovery will hurt you for the remainder of your life.
- Throw in some Lion's Mane mycelium. It heavily boosts neurogenesis and has enabled many to fully recover from mild nerve damage. 3-7g a day for you, preferably 7g. Even more if you can!
- Add Reishi mushroom or Chaga. See this and this.
- Add some sarcosine with that glycine. See this thread. And this one.
- Keep your ALCAR and N-Acetyl-Cysteine intake high. See this thread. ALCAR is very important too, although I cannot find the source at the moment. Regardless, keep a HIGH intake of both. I am talking at least 5g NAC a day, but less than 8g.
- Just buy some L-Tryptophan and use it every so often. You can rely on foods but it's much simpler to take a pinch of the raw powder and eat it.
- Add some Rhodiola Rosea such as Arctic Root SHR-5, it should have standardised rosavins, salidrosides AND p-tyrosol/polyphenols
Other than this, your stack looks great. Remember, you don't need to throw 3000 different things at it although the more the merrier. Good doses of certain highly active things (some of which I have mentioned above) will go much farther than small doses of lots of little things. Your focus should be on the following things in order of
foundational and necessary to what will actually actively drive your recovery
only when given the foundation: reduce all new stressors in life, reduce oxidative stress, provide all neurotransmitter precursors, inhibit premature breakdown of neurotransmitters, lengthen neurotransmitter turnover rates, enhance neural plasticity,
boost neurogenesis.
Psychosis is a tough one. Your full attention should be on recovery and nothing but recovery. And full attention includes the wallet too, if you're pissing away money on silly things unrelated to recovery when you could have bought something that would help you along, then you will be making a huge mistake. I find your naivety somewhat humorous: "Oh I'll just cure this problem that plagues millions of people who've worked at theirs for years and I'll do it in just three months" but I am guessing that this is a first for you so it's expected, hehe. No. You
need the supplements, because you
need the precursors for your neurotransmitters. Otherwise, forget about curing OCD and inattentiveness. The truth is that they will go away by themselves
when your brain is truly nourished from the inside and out. But when it has no 'food', your brain cannot develop its "muscle" and it will not get any gains, let's put it that way.
Full brain function may or may not return within 6 months, it depends entirely on the severity of it. Some people take a matter of months, some take a year or two, others take decades, some never recover and still others descend into a pit of bottomless horror. The important thing is to know that this is fully within your control!
Edited by BLimitless, 20 December 2012 - 11:25 AM.
