I've noticed in the past, that when I've been under a ton of stress, I drink coffee, soda, ruminate a ton, and things get worse, much worse.
I've started taking magnesium l-threonate the past few months and it's literally made me a better person. Thoughts come and go. The rumination, the "voices" are much less.
One scoop, three times a day during stressful periods (166mg of elemental magnesium).
The only other solution that's had this profound of an affect on me was Lexapro, but it had too many side effects.
I've done years of therapy but nothing ever seemed to stick. But the l-threonate, the diminished anxiety, those affects seem to stick. Better than any therapy session I've had.
I'll give this much more time to see how it plays out. But I have had the thought wondering if my mental anxiousness and depression all of these years was just a mineral deficiency.
Not that I wouldn't have gotten really sad or ruminated, but that it didn't have to be so bad. I was stressed. I needed lots of magnesium. I definitely was not getting it.