At 3 months I am no longer depressed, I have regained the capacity for taking pleasure in life, and I have regained a sense of connection to the people around me, and to the world in general, and the ability to anticipate pleasure and joy. I have regained my libido, and sex is once again the joy I believe it should be. I am physically feeling much better, have much more energy, and I am no longer prone to all the little colds and infections that I used to get. I am interested in things again, and I no longer feel like I couldn't be bothered living. The world still looks pretty horrible as far as the destruction humans have wrought, but now I can see a reason to fight.
Life IS worth living, and there IS joy in the world.
As soon as I felt better, I tried to jump back into life to make up for lost time, and found the I was much more emotionally fragile than I liked. I have to take things a bit easier than I want to. I have noticed that I backslide pretty quickly if I stop taking the hypericin or lower the dose, and I have no idea about how long it might take before I can give it up. Hypericin is the main active ingredient in the plant Hypericum Perforatum, commonly known as St John's Wort. The first thing I noticed was that I was waking up feeling good, but that this dissipated during the stress of the working day.