EDIT: It seems rhodiola (rosea root extract) isn’t a hopeless avenue to explore!
It had been on the agenda to wait some days before taking it again to see if I could get it to reproduce the effect it had in the recent past.
Some success has been found by waiting five days between doses.
Now, it’s just a matter of figuring out what extra supplementing my brain needs to make it truly count on this one day! (At least, that’s how I theorize this’ll work out.)
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So, haliperidone and paliperidone interfere with the dopamine receptors in the brain, but there’s more to the effect than simply making one feel sleepy.
I can attest that, while exercise does make that feeling of contentedness associated with dopamine, there is something else going on, because even though I’ll feel like playing a game (Skyrim or Borderlands) on my computer, the feeling that I actually can game out is, insofar as I can manage, out of reach.
And I have tried to game out while feeling this way! I last (maybe) five minutes before I lose all motivation and interest to continue.
So, what the fuck is it that I have to do, so that I can pass the time enjoying myself, instead of laying in bed tired but awake?
I have done a little reading.
Apparently, the brain uses DL-phenylalanine and tyrosine together to create stuff, and then, that stuff ends up as dopamine, yea?
Iron and B6 are also needed to get the process going… apparently…
But here’s the roadblock: Rhodiola rosea extract will make my brain feel normal one time (in my experience)!
Why is that?
Diminishing returns until the fourth day where there is no happy relief (allowing me to game out for, at least, three hours).
And I need that happy relief!
I need it!
I don’t even know who I can take these ponderings to.
It’s very frustrating… hard… and let’s just say being out of bed for ~2 hours a day on average is not a life I want to lead.
How many of you are hip-hip-hoorahing me for finally taking some time to cure this sad, sorry state I am in?