Interesting article I found about Depression and Magnesium deficiency: Rapid recovery from major de

Hey depressed people, I used to be depressed actually I still am, but I am a little better after taking Magnesium supplements. They really made a difference, just wanted to share that with you all, since I know what it's like to want to die, in fact I still do, just I want a worthy death. Anyways, check out this article from pubmed:

Rapid recovery from major depression using magnesium treatment.
Eby GA1, Eby KL.
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Abstract
Major depression is a mood disorder characterized by a sense of inadequacy, despondency, decreased activity, pessimism, anhedonia and sadness where these symptoms severely disrupt and adversely affect the person's life, sometimes to such an extent that suicide is attempted or results. Antidepressant drugs are not always effective and some have been accused of causing an increased number of suicides particularly in young people. Magnesium deficiency is well known to produce neuropathologies. Only 16% of the magnesium found in whole wheat remains in refined flour, and magnesium has been removed from most drinking water supplies, setting a stage for human magnesium deficiency. Magnesium ions regulate calcium ion flow in neuronal calcium channels, helping to regulate neuronal nitric oxide production. In magnesium deficiency, neuronal requirements for magnesium may not be met, causing neuronal damage which could manifest as depression. Magnesium treatment is hypothesized to be effective in treating major depression resulting from intraneuronal magnesium deficits. These magnesium ion neuronal deficits may be induced by stress hormones, excessive dietary calcium as well as dietary deficiencies of magnesium. Case histories are presented showing rapid recovery (less than 7 days) from major depression using 125-300 mg of magnesium (as glycinate and taurinate) with each meal and at bedtime. Magnesium was found usually effective for treatment of depression in general use. Related and accompanying mental illnesses in these case histories including traumatic brain injury, headache, suicidal ideation, anxiety, irritability, insomnia, postpartum depression, cocaine, alcohol and tobacco abuse, hypersensitivity to calcium, short-term memory loss and IQ loss were also benefited. Dietary deficiencies of magnesium, coupled with excess calcium and stress may cause many cases of other related symptoms including agitation, anxiety, irritability, confusion, asthenia, sleeplessness, headache, delirium, hallucinations and hyperexcitability, with each of these having been previously documented. The possibility that magnesium deficiency is the cause of most major depression and related mental health problems including IQ loss and addiction is enormously important to public health and is recommended for immediate further study. Fortifying refined grain and drinking water with biologically available magnesium to pre-twentieth century levels is recommended.

i posted to you on the heart forum. sorry, but some relevance was there, with that information, but 7 days for rapid recovery is an advice that is dangerous. regardless of case studies. magnesium deficiency being (possibly) the cause of mental illness, IQ loss? benefiting SI, postpartum depression? this information is paericulary dangerous to vulnerable people.

While I do believe vitamins can help, expecting a 7 day cure all can lead to problems especially if someone has been depressed for years and is expecting a ending to the depression. What you should say is, get your bloodwork done to see if a vitamin supplement like magnesium can help. Sorta like saying if you suffer from chronic pain and bloodwork shows your only low on vitamin d, so once your on vitamin d your pain will go away, which is not the case, pain can get better with vitamin d, but probably will not go away. People with depression might get better with magnesium but its probably not a cure all...where are the studies to say its a cure all....as with all things do in moderation and if it sounds like a duck or to good to be true then it probably is...magnesium could help,...fda needs to study this to give it a claim of a cure...