 Maybe this will help...
Hoping to convince y'all to try taking B-complex vitamins for depression and see if it helps..........
Here's what one complementary medicine book says about B vitamins and depression:
B6 - pyridoxine
"A woman needs more B6 when she's pregnant and when she's taking birth control pills. Both deplete the body of pyridoxine. Restoring a healthier amount often alleviates the depression that sometimes sets in as a side effect of oral contraceptives."
B1 - thiamin:
"Aggressive and addictive behavior, as well as other personality disorders and mental illnesses, share several nutritional common denominators, including a thiamin deficiency. Up to 30 percent of the people admitted to hospital psychiaric wards are deficient in B1, according to research estimates. I've seen people with certain kinds of depression respond very well to thiamin therapy. A daily dosage of 400 mg helps maintain healthy levels of the brain chemicals such as acetylcholine, which are responsible for elevating mood."
Inositol - in the B complex family
"Inositol levels are often lower than average in people hospitalized for depression. To make a bad nutritional deficit even worse, lithium, commonly prescribed for manic-depressive disorder, further decreases the brain's inositol concentration. Resupplying the nutrient naturally can frequently lift spirits. Dosages of 6-12 grams a day for four weeks, two studies agreed, significantly alleviated a number of depressive symptoms."
Vitamin B9 -- folic acid -- and depression:
"Many chemicals responsible for the brain's health and emotional balance are dependent on folic acid, but what's sufficient for one person may not be enough for someone else. People who become depressed, for instance, may have a higher need for the nutrient than do nondepressed, otherwise healthy people. It is known that depressed patients with low folate levels respond poorly to antidepressant drugs. Once the greater need is satisfied, mental dispositon can improve as markedly as it does with drugs."
also B9 - folic acid - women's hormonal problems
"Mega-folic acid therapy, along with the mineral boron, can delay menopause or relieve its symptoms allowing women to halt estrogen replacement therapy entirely or reduce their prescription dosages. It can revive a depressed libido, restore menstrual regularity, and adjust hormonal imbalances. In adolescent girls it can coax delayed puberty back on track. It also helps to slow the bone loss that leads to osteoporosis...."
Mega doses of folic acid have helped my hirsutism substantially over the course of, so far, three months, so I believe something is really going on here. If you want to try mega-folic acid, tho, check the contra-indications in my signature line, below, where I outline the specifics of what I take.
The book is Dr. Atkins' Vita-Nutrient Solution -- Nature's Answer to Drugs.
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I even have the expensive ones from a health food store that are in a capsule, doesnt' help. So, I tend to not take them, but thanks for the reminder 
Lendi
