I take 500mg L-Tryptophan at night along with 750 mg GABA. I take another 750 GABA, 500 mg L-Glutamine and 1000 mg DLPA in the morning. The L-Tryptophan converts to 5HTP in the body.

I have been on this regimen for about a month. It has replace my previous supplement regime which helped improve my symptoms (over 2-3 years), but did not ever really elevate me entirely out of depression. My previous supplements also had amino acids, but not as much.

The regime I listed above has improved my mood level dramatically. I am at baseline now, which has been a long time in the coming - years. It's lovely. I'm happy, energetic and resilient. I can tell when things happen that would normally send me into a downward spiral, and it just sort of rolls off my back, even if it makes me frustrated, sad or angry. My emotions/mood feel commensurate with whatever stimuli I'm experiencing, if that makes sense.

I want to thank you, LucyG, for sharing the information you have on this forum. It inspired me to look into it further, since it's important to me to try to work with my brain chemistry as naturally as possible. I'm so glad to have found this combination - I'm cautiously optimistic about it as a long-term solution for me, realizing that it's only been a little over a month so far.