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    Kidding. Sort of. What are good supplements to take for help stay positive or level? Holidays are ruff time for me. DH informed me last night I was on razors edge (of getting myself too upset) and he was right! I went to bed early and chilled out. If there's anything else you suggest I'd be happy to give it a try! TIA
    Wife to PGY5. Mommy to baby girl born 11/2009. Cat mommy since 2002
    "“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”"

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    Vitamin D is a big one! There's a reason it's the "sunshine" vitamin. Vit B is good too, and if you want to try SAM-e, it can help your mood as well.
    Married to a peds surgeon attending

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    • #3
      Originally posted by weeniegeniewife View Post
      Vitamin D is a big one! There's a reason it's the "sunshine" vitamin. Vit B is good too, and if you want to try SAM-e, it can help your mood as well.
      Fish oil has been shown to decrease cortisol levels, so it helps buffer the physical effects of stress. Also, chocolate.
      Wife of PGY-4 (of 6), cat herder, and mom to a sassy-pants four-nager.

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      • #4
        Specifically B6....it's a precursor to many neurotransmitters. 50-100mg daily is enough. Any more and you're probably peeing it away.
        Mom of 3, Veterinarian

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        • #5
          No advice from me--just support. I have been really struggling too. I hope you're able to be happy and calm!

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          • #6
            Honestly, I take the 'happy pills'. I know some people who only take them seasonally. I'm not one to push meds (took me rather too long to give in and finally start some) but sometimes... *shrug*
            Sorry about the hard times folks... But maybe can make cheerful t-shirts! JK, sorry :blush:


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            My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. ~Maya Angelou

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            • #7
              Do you have a happy light? I'm surprised we weren't sold one with our house when we moved here. I haven't gotten mine out yet, but am thinking it should come out tonight and stay on my counter until May.
              -Deb
              Wife to EP, just trying to keep up with my FOUR busy kids!

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              • #8
                What is a happy light?
                Wife to PGY5. Mommy to baby girl born 11/2009. Cat mommy since 2002
                "“If you don't know where you are going any road can take you there”"

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Deebs View Post
                  Do you have a happy light? I'm surprised we weren't sold one with our house when we moved here. I haven't gotten mine out yet, but am thinking it should come out tonight and stay on my counter until May.
                  I love my happy light!
                  Married to a peds surgeon attending

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by moonlight View Post
                    What is a happy light?
                    I'm assuming something like this: http://www.costco.com/goLITE%C2%AE-B....11485608.html

                    Or other non-blue full-spectrum light?
                    Sandy
                    Wife of EM Attending, Web Programmer, mom to one older lady scaredy-cat and one sweet-but-dumb younger boy kitty

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                    • #11
                      That's exactly it! I haven't gotten it out yet because it's been so nice here that we've been outside a ton. That ended yesterday.
                      -Deb
                      Wife to EP, just trying to keep up with my FOUR busy kids!

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                      • #12
                        I just bought this one and I was about to come suggest it here--suggest looking into it for yourself, I mean. (I haven't had it long enough to say if it really works yet--my answer so far is "I think so" but I've only had it like two weeks and I was out of town for one of those.) I figure if it doesn't work that's a lot of money to waste, but if it does work, that's a very small amount of money to pay to feel as productive in the winter as I feel in the summer. And also to not spend all of daylight savings week feeling like I've suddenly fallen to the bottom of a well or something.
                        Married to a hematopathologist seven years out of training.
                        Raising three girls, 11, 9, and 2.

                        “That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
                        Lev Grossman, The Magician King

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                        • #13
                          My supplements of choice are 5-HTP, L-tyrosine, iodine, and cod liver oil. (I also eat a clean diet 95% of the time; cutting out grains and sugar helps a TON) I'm happier than I've been in a long ass time, even though I've got major stressors in my life right now. One of my fave books is The Mood Cure by Julia Ross.

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                          • #14
                            http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005SV...sr=8-2&pi=SL75

                            I have this kind in my work cube but paid about $40 so maybe its a smaller version. I've been surprisingly less grumpy when I remember to turn it on!

                            I was really worried because I have always gotten a little blue in the winter even when I had a huge window at my old job... and now I am in a cube and don't see light all day.

                            Wife to PGY3
                            Loving wife of neurosurgeon

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by MarissaNicole View Post
                              http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005SV...sr=8-2&pi=SL75

                              I have this kind in my work cube but paid about $40 so maybe its a smaller version. I've been surprisingly less grumpy when I remember to turn it on!

                              I was really worried because I have always gotten a little blue in the winter even when I had a huge window at my old job... and now I am in a cube and don't see light all day.

                              Wife to PGY3
                              This links me to coffee filters? Although, coffee does make me happy...
                              Wife to PGY4 & Mother of 3.

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