There are plenty of items that claim to reduce anxiety significantly. These come in all sorts of forms from pills to dissolving gel capsules for relieving stress on the go. If you search around you will find Bach Rescue Remedy is mentioned quite often along with different brands of similar mood enhancing pills. These brands include Now, Moodboost, and many others that have essentially the same ingredients.
But what about L-theanine, you may say. If you suffer from extreme anxiety and have heard of this then you probably drink nothing but green tea to try and reap the benefits of it. I have switched to hot green tea for most of my drinking needs while I’m at home as well.
Saint John’s Wort? I have tried that as well. It is generally in the mood enhancing pills in small doses. If you check stores like CVS and Walgreens you can find it easily in the vitamin section in pill form.
Do these things work? If you’re like me you have tried everything not to use actual medicine to help yourself. I have spent years trying to heal myself naturally by using these type of products and I’m more than willing to share my results. They don’t work.
I have been using Bach Rescue Remedy Pearls for around a month now and I actually thought it was working until one dreaded morning. I was running late for work and forgot to take one. I was nearly halfway to work before I realized it and I was immediately struck with horror. I worked the day and I didn't feel too much different from when I was taking the Pearls. I have tried them on and off to compare to find that there was no difference. I also tried Now Mood Support. Unfortunately this had the same result.
L-theanine seemed promising, but I’m not sure how well it works. I have heard that you would have to drink an impossible amount of tea in order to get enough to make any real difference. I will say that drinking hot green tea does have a very relaxing effect on me. I’m sure it’s only that it’s a hot drink rather than the L-theanine though. I have started to bring a coffee mug full of hot tea to work work every morning and I have to say that it really helps me.
Out of the products I have tried I have been very disappointed that most of them have felt like placebos rather than something really helpful. I am not trying to discourage anyone from trying one of these products because there are plenty of people that have said they work wonders for them. What may work for you may not work for me and vice versa.
Hopefully one day there will be an all natural product that can knock out our anxiety as well as prescription medicine seems to be able to, but I doubt it. Until then we just have to pray that God will lead us in the direction He wants us to go even if that direction is prescription medication.
God Bless and let me know if you need anything,
David
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