I used to take SAMe for several years as recommended by a psychiatrist I was seeing. It definitely helped a bit, but when I stopped I had a complete mental breakdown and my nervous system was shot for months- make sure to taper down if you are ever on it and want to stop, affected me worse than some antidepressants I’ve stopped. I think it was particularly helpful with my general energy levels, but would not describe it as a “happy pill”
Man I dunno about everyone else but huge doses of caffeine make me feel so incredibly sick and decidedly UNHAPPY only a few hours later. So not worth it.
Last time I took something like that I woke up with my bed bent in half and my door wide open with the floor soaked in mystery fluid. Would not recommend
Anything with herbs is not FDA regulated so if that has herbs I am very concerned. Still concerned none the less cause it seems like a kid could take them thinking it’s candy.
I wouldn’t count on it, saw some “male health booster” pills at the store and they said that would cause EDS and biological castration… sounds like male health to me…
I remember overhearing some people talking about taking "happy pills" when I was going into an AP test in high school but I always assumed they were talking about ADHD meds
Funny story, I bought some of these from china about 13 years ago (I was a depressed teenager and didn’t know where to begin lol) The package got stopped in customs and were opened for investigation.
Wow, there’s a lot of Freedom just sitting there. We would regulate that shit out of existence, or at least to petrol station toilet vending machines 🤣
It’s SAMe. I’ve tried it before and didn’t notice it having an effect. But it’s been marketed as mood boosting for years. I was a biochemistry student and I used to remember what SAMe is but I don’t right now. It’s just a metabolic intermediate though.
SAMe is safe in treating depression in studies, but it's unclear if it's placebo, and higher quality studies for effectiveness are needed.
If it is effective, it's probably similar to things like fish oil, b & c vitamins, and st John's wart. That is to say, they are adjuvant therapies that work best in combination with rx medicine; or for mild, situational things like mild Seaonal Depression.
I'll never forget when 15 year old me, in foster care and trying to survive the severe C-PTSD that my pre-foster care life caused, saw a bottle of St. John's Wort (which this blend contains) on the shelf at Brookshire's (back when they had their own pharmacy) and took it to the pharmacist to ask if it interacted with the specific psychotropic prescriptions I was taking at the time.
He took the bottle, examined it very briefly and said "St. John's Wort interacts with a ridiculously large amount of drugs, It can cause photosensitivity, I do not recommend this to anyone. I personally wish it wasn't even available in our pharmacy but I don't control that here".
He didn't even hand that specific bottle back to me, it was crushing to hear as someone who was dealing with poor efficacy of their prescribed antidepressants at the time, but reading some of the comments on this post criticizing St. John's Wort's presence in this product I appreciate that pharmacist a lot more than I did already.
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