Piracetam for Depression
What is Piracetam?
Piracetam is a classic nootropic medication to enhance mental cognition, intelligence, focus, and overall brain power. It has been used by millions of people since the 1960s, and is a member of the racetam drug class. Exactly how it works is not exactly known yet, but it’s thought it increases the oxygen permeability of the brain’s tissues as well as having neuroprotective properties, to help your brain from aging and losing plasticity, or the ability to create new neural pathways.
Reviews for Anxiety
Many people who have suffered from anxiety report amazing results while taking Piracetam and other nootropic drugs. They feel more awake, calmer, and more able to interact with the world, as well as finding everyday interactions easier. Anxiety can make everyday tasks nearly impossible, and many people don’t like the side effects of traditional medications. Giving nootropics a try can’t hurt before trying traditional anxiety drugs, as there are often fewer side effects and may even have better results, faster.
Reviews for Depression
One of the side effects of depression in many people is exhaustion; Piracetam can give you the boost of energy you need to take other measures to help combat depression. Exercise is known to help lift patients suffering with depression out of the doldrums, and taking nootropics can give you that boost you need. Clearing the mental fog often associated with depression is also invaluable. Many of the symptoms of depression – low energy, inability to focus, and emotional highs and lows – can be solved by taking Piracetam. The other symptoms, such as withdrawal from favored activities and lack of socialization, are known to be helped by boosting energy. This in turns feeds the cycle of healing. People have reported amazing success while using Piracetam, either in conjunction with other antidepressants or alone. Depression can be a tricky illness to treat; because there are often no physical effects, people suffering from depression may just float through their days, not realizing why they feel so sad or disconnected. Because depression and many other mental illnesses are caused by imbalances in the brain’s chemical makeup, taking a nootropic (literally “mind bending”) drug can help get you back on track to a healthier chemical balance. Nootropic drugs may not work for everyone, or they make work best alongside traditional antidepressants, but it’s worth a try to start taking Piracetam for depression.
Side Effects
Because Piracetam has such a low toxicity, there are often no side effects at all. The most commonly noted side effects are feelings of jittery nerves or shakiness, weight gains, drowsiness, or headaches, but these are fairly common and often transitory as your body adjusts to a new medication. Only 10% of people report side effects while taking Piracetam at all, the most common of these side effects being headaches. You can simply stop taking Piracetam for a while until the headaches fade, or lower your dosage, or stack with choline to help your brain adjust and to protect from burning out the chemical receptors that cause the mental effects of nootropics. The half life of Piracetam is very short, so you never have to worry about harming your body or brain. With time, your brain will actually learn to keep the neural pathways you built while taking Piracetam even when you no longer take the drug, and your brain will be improved for the better.
Benefits
The benefits of taking Piracetam, or really any nootropic, could fill a book. From feeling more awake and alert in your daily life, to increased productivity at work, to increased focus on your favorite activities and hobbies, the benefits really are tremendous. Almost immediately you may start to notice the haze in your brain most people try to fend off with caffeine or other stimulants starts to fade, without the shaky hands and racing heart overdoing it with stimulants can cause. You may notice your senses becoming sharper, your vision clearing, your senses heightened. All of this, and for the most part without a single side effect! It sounds nearly too good to be true, but it really isn’t, and with time you may not even need to take the drug to get the same effect. You must merely harness the power of your own brain by giving it a little helping hand. Your brain will thank you; not only are you helping to increase blood and oxygen flow, which is proven to help you think better, remember more, and be smarter, but you will be protecting your precious brain tissue from the damage that age and exposure to chemicals can cause.
Is there a withdrawal from using Piracetam?
Not exactly; some people do say they feel a “withdrawal” effect when they stop taking Piracetam, but it is less a feeling of negative symptoms as a lack of positive ones. So while you don’t experience a traditional withdrawal, you will simply go back to normal. However, for most people who have become accustomed to the benefits of taking Piracetam, normal no longer sounds very appealing. Sinking back into the dullness of your thoughts before may indeed feel like a bit of a withdrawal, although it is not possible to become addicted to Piracetam or experience physical withdrawal symptoms. If you are worried about addiction or withdrawal, simply cycle this supplement with others in your stack, but this drug has been around for a long time and it doesn’t appear that there’s really anything to worry about.
Does Piracetam need choline?
In a word, yes. In more words, it’s up to you, but it’s highly recommended. Choline can help protect the chemical receptors in your brain that are responsible for the effect of nootropics, and may reduce the occurrence of the most common side effect, headaches. Most adults are choline deficient anyway, so it truly can’t hurt to add this vitamin to your stack. At worst you’re giving your body a nutrient it needs anyway, and at best you may be helping protect your brain and enhance the long term effect of Piracetam or another nootropic drug in your stack. Taking Piracetam for a long time may burn out the receptors in your brain that Piracetam works on, and taking choline helps slow or even eliminate that factor. While this “burning out” is not inherently harmful, it will make Piracetam far less effective and may make it more difficult for you to focus and feel those enhanced effects again. So better safe than sorry; stack with choline. You probably need it anyway and it might just help save your brain.
What will I feel while taking Piracetam?
The effects of nootropics are highly personal, but generally speaking you will start to feel effects right away, or within about a week at most. Some people report feeling the effects right away, an overall “brightening” of their perception of the world. Others report a slower build, a general increase in wellbeing over about a week of taking the drug. Carefully monitoring how you feel while taking Piracetam or any other nootropic drug, even keeping a journal if you feel so inclined, can be extremely beneficial. It may help you figure out when you start feeling side effects if you do, help you monitor how you feel at different dosages, and make it easier to add onto your stack. Knowledge is power and knowledge of your own body is even more powerful, so keeping careful notes of exactly what you feel and when will only help you in the end. Researchers have been considering the use of Piracetam to treat ADHD, Alzheimer’s or other neurodegenerative disorders, because the effects can be incredible in helping regulate and elevate the brain to a clear, energized way of thinking.
Long Term Effects
In the long term, Piracetam can actually have an overall positive effect on your brain. The new neural pathways that form will remain if you keep using them. Like any muscle, the brain is “use it or lose it”, so if you keep using the neural pathways you formed while taking Piracetam, your brain will actually become stronger even when you are no longer taking the drug. Because of the low toxicity level, much lower than that of even over the counter medications 
Short Term Effect
Most people just feel better in the short term. They feel more awake and energized, smarter and clearer of thought, even smarter or better at their jobs! All of us struggle with staying motivated to get up every morning and go to work, even when it might be unpleasant. Piracetam provides the helping hand most of us need to get up, get going, and make the most of our days. With the energy and focus that Piracetam provide, you may find yourself reading more books, writing more, or pursuing other projects that many people say they want to do and then never do, such as learning a language, exercising more, or redecorating their homes. Instead of being stuck in a loop of waking up, drinking enough coffee to kill an elephant, eating bad food, coming home and collapsing in front of the television before slouching off to bed, Piracetam gives you the boost you need to really make the most out of your time. Whatever you want to do with your time, be that improve your mind, body, environment, or anything else, you can stop dreaming about it and put it into action with Piracetam.
History
Piracetam is the oldest nootropic drug, and was first developed in 1964 in Belgium. It has been used in a variety of research programs, from decreasing the effects of Alzheimer’s to helping people out of the lows of depression. For hundreds of years people have been searching for ways to improve the power of the human brain, and nootropics, or “smart drugs”, are the solution. Many people have seen amazing results while using nootropics like Piracetam, and while smart drugs haven’t yet hit the mainstream, that doesn’t mean you can’t benefit from the incredible power of Piracetam and other drugs like it.
Research
Currently studies are underway investigating the power of Piracetam for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The neuroprotective properties of racetam drugs such as Piracetam may prove to be instrumental in helping to repair the brains of those individuals who have been affected with these diseases. Time will only tell exactly how much this drug may be able to do; the possibilities are infinite. Mankind has always dreamed of being able to expand our collective mind, and as we explore our own bodies, our world, and outer space, the possibilities only expand for the uses of this drug. Perhaps Piracetam or another nootropic drug might help an astronaut survive long months or years in space in top mental form, or help repair the damaged brain of a meningitis patient to restore normal function.
Common Nootropics to Stack With
What other nootropics you stack with will largely depend on what your goal is. The most common and easiest stack is to simply add a high quality choline to your stack, to enhance the effects of the Piracetam and add an extra layer of protection to ensure that the receptors in your brain that help Piracetam do its job don’t get burned out from extended use. Stacking Piracetam with Aniracetam and Oxiracetam will help you get the full range of racetam nootropic power, while also being cost effective. Oxiracetam is said to be a mood enhancer as well, which is wonderful if you were taking Piracetam for depression in the first place. Using these three powerful drugs together will really give your brain a boost, allowing you to harness your full potential. Many users of this stack report feeling more creative and as if their mind had been expanded. Make sure you add choline to this stack, and you’ll be nearly unstoppable. You owe it to yourself to try and expand your mind as much as possible, don’t you think?
Use as an anxiolytic
There is significant research that a course of Piracetam has similar anxiolytic effects to traditional anxiety medications but without the sedative effects. Research performed at the highest level by the best minds in science has proven that taking Piracetam really does have essentially the same effect on people suffering from anxiety as chlordiazepoxide, which is a traditional pharmaceutical anxiety medication, but without the side effect of drowsiness or anything else that may accompany such medication, such as nausea or headaches. In fact Piracetam shows the opposite; instead of feeling tired and not nervous, people taking Piracetam feel energized and not nervous, which I’m sure most people would agree is a far better state of affairs.
Final Thoughts
Expanding the capacity of the human mind is a fascinating concept, and definitely one that deserves to be explored further. There is so much potential in nootropic drugs whether it’s exploring the uses of Piracetam for depression or stacking the full family of racetams to open up your mind. There’s no telling what the average person with just a little boost might be able to do. If you’d like to take your mind from ordinary to extraordinary, look no further than Piracetam or any of its nootropic cousins. You owe it to yourself to open up your mind to the possibilities of what you might be able to accomplish with the boost you can only get from Piracetam.
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