This was vitamin D for me... When I finally got checked I was at a 6... The lowest you're supposed to go is like 40. I could hardly chew food I was so exhausted. Winter is still hard for me, but I take a crap load of vitamin D and it helps a bit
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My favorite thing about this meme is that whenever it gets posted we get to hear these stories. I'm glad it got better for you!
I know this exact experience. During university, I think I tested down asking 9ng/dL. My digestive tract nearly stopped. It was awful. Having ADHD, I sometimes forget to take my vitamin D for extended periods, which, while not as severe now that I'm close to the equator, does exacerbate everything.
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That's basically what therapy is. The lack of vitamin is the damage you received in your childhood that you just thought was normal.
Then you actually recount the experience to a therapist and they tell you how not normal that is and help you to recognize the fact that you had to go through that without support and that the way you are is because you had to cope to support yourself to survive when no one else was there for you.
Once you know it then you can tell all your friends and get them to awe at your seemingly inhuman perseverance.
Living through trauma isn't really a super power. And I wouldn't wish what happened to me on anyone. In fact, I don't usually share what happened to me with anyone but my therapist and my wife.
Not a superpower, agreed.
I've found many shared experiences when I thought my experience was unique. Sharing my personal traumas with people in my life has both helped them to understand me as well as sometimes help them also. In the same ways I have felt alone I have helped other to realize they are not alone and often that can be the first step to them getting real help.
That's fair, I probably shouldn't keep this stuff to myself if I want to get better from it.
Do it you coward i dare you.
(now you gotta cause i dared you)
Boo, that's far more complicated than popping a pill once a day.
Therapy might help with the childhood trauma but it imparts the poverty trauma.
Which one is better depends on the build you're going for and whether you want to recruit all companions and get the true ending or are fine with the neutral.
Unfortunately this is the case in America but not everywhere. Seems like a trauma on it's own.
That said, there are resources and many therapists in the US who will work for free or at reduced rates on a case by case basis.
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not only do you now have the Vitamin, you also have crippling Medical Debt
Source is Pictures For Sad Children, if anyone's unfamiliar. Not that it's been available online in the last decade.
Until he sees his bill...*
*assuming this fantasy takes place in the USA
I'm low on Vitamin $
[reverently] All this time, you lacked the Dollar? And yet you persevered?
tremulously raises hands to bask in the perseverance
Got an honest to god laugh out of me.
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Magnesium for me. I don’t know why but it makes my brain work better. I feel horribly anxious, depressed, and intolerant of others when I forget to take it for more than three days or so.
I’m going to try this before I head for the cliff. :p
It changed my life, seriously. I mentioned it to my doctor with one of her residents present. The resident had recently finished a psych rotation and said that she learned that most people are deficient.
I've been rocking some magnesium citrate supplements for a couple of years now. It does seem to help. What do you take specifically?
NOW brand Magnesium Citrate, 200mg. From experience, NOW is one of those few brands you can trust.
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My wife started giving me her electrolyte mix and feeding me sardines everyday and I can't tell you how much better I feel
It has magnesium in it, but I think it's the particular form of potassium in it that's hitting my deficiency. It tastes like potatoes and it's.... I guess it's not bad. Like drinking starch water.
Shout-out to my wife who i'd probably whither away and die without.
I tried these Magnesium drink tablets while I was in Europe. Could feel how much it helped. Can't find anything similar in the States :\
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The Spice Melange!
Now we can never leave this planet
Why would we want to, it's 100% beach.
Did someone say beach?
Doesnt even need to be an actual vitamin, just a basic chemical imbalance. That is why many people experiment with nootropics.
It was folic acid for me. Turns out me and my family don't get the full affect of vitamins or medicines. After some genetic testing we are all taking it and are all feeling a lot better and our meds are actually working. It's nuts how simple it was to turn us all around.
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Yeah turns out all I had to do was take a pill of Diet Meth in the morning and now I can function like a human being
Have you tried buying some multivitamins at the store just to rule out that THAT was the issue?
Store bought multivitamins aren't even guaranteed to rule it out. For a myriad of different reasons, you can still have deficiencies even if you take a multivitamin. So, maybe it's worth a try, but if it doesn't work, that doesn't mean there couldn't still be a deficiency.
Recently did some research on what the treatment would be for a particular deficiency.
Found that general-purpose multivitamins provide about 0.5% of the therapeutic amount.
So yeah, there can be a massive difference between the little bit of help a multivitamin can give vs. what you really need for a specific condition.
The actual pill in reality for us: PRESCRIBED METH!
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