Re: Valerian Root and Panic Attacks
Can never forget the entrancing stench of valerian root, I would take so many herbal tablets for months on end to try and find slumber when my sleeping was truly epic in how thin it stretched lol, I love the smell but I was never affected by them, I'm sure they help people, my brain is just not receptive to anything that is not heavily sedating if I need to sleep. I don't even know if it calmed me down because I was always days without much rest when I took them so wasn't a priority to test the effectiveness on anxiety and taking things down a couple pegs. It barely made a dent in my drowsy metre but I kept taking them until I bit the bullet and waded into artificial things, sometimes you have to go to the altar of modern medicine, if I could rely on herbal stuff I would.
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