I'm glad you stumbled upon this post as well! I live it when something I write resonates with people :-)

I too have done Magnesium and Melatonine, plus a ton of stuff that are not just meant for the brain but will help indirectly, and a specific mixture of herbs that can only be prescribed by this therapist as it has such a specific effect on hormones/thyroid.

I eventually had to remove myself from my "life" all together and just start completely over.

I've been there too but I've also learned that 'removing' yourself from life is actually a side effect from the body's systems - it slowly shuts off organs and functions that are less 'needed' will be shut off in order to 'serve' the bigger/evolutionary more important stress system. Which is why you can get depressed, burn-out, be more irritable (for me it was sounds that made me crazy) and less social (why spend energy on social events when you need to save up to get the basic system going after all!)

Well, I will write about all that in a separate post :-)

I hope you find ways to become whole again as well! Seems like we're on a similar path indeed, thanks a lot for sharing that with me :-)