I have been supplementing rhodiola rosea and your example is the exact thing it promises, a halving of depressive symptoms along with other benefits. I’m not sure if it’s working.
Yeah, hard to know in retrospect, I would love to hear more about your results in as much as you can tell. For future such attempts where you’re trying something like this, I recommend taking a baseline on a mood tracking site for a week or two before starting, if you can manage it, and then tracking for at least however long they claim it takes to get results. I also recommend just generally taking baselines, maybe every couple to few months—that way, even if you don’t want to mood track all the time, you at least have some reasonable random sampling to look back on to see how you’re doing over time. When you track, its ideal if you find a way to have uniform bias—so always take the test at the same time each day for example, or randomize the time if you’re doing many data points and can handle noise—one problem with mood tracking is that people tend to take it when they are feeling especially good or especially bad or generally motivated by extreme mood, so its good if you can find a way to minimize that particular bias.
I have been supplementing rhodiola rosea and your example is the exact thing it promises, a halving of depressive symptoms along with other benefits. I’m not sure if it’s working.
Yeah, hard to know in retrospect, I would love to hear more about your results in as much as you can tell. For future such attempts where you’re trying something like this, I recommend taking a baseline on a mood tracking site for a week or two before starting, if you can manage it, and then tracking for at least however long they claim it takes to get results. I also recommend just generally taking baselines, maybe every couple to few months—that way, even if you don’t want to mood track all the time, you at least have some reasonable random sampling to look back on to see how you’re doing over time. When you track, its ideal if you find a way to have uniform bias—so always take the test at the same time each day for example, or randomize the time if you’re doing many data points and can handle noise—one problem with mood tracking is that people tend to take it when they are feeling especially good or especially bad or generally motivated by extreme mood, so its good if you can find a way to minimize that particular bias.