Zhou Calm Now - Calm Supplement, Calm Vitamins for Women & Men, Pills to Relax for Adults with GABA & Ashwagandha, Stress & Focus Support - 60 Veggie Capsules

For a brief background, I was previously formally diagnosed with "bi-polar, cyclothymia, anxiety-NOS, GAD, SAD (seasonal affective AND social anxiety disorders), severe chronic depression, OCD, ADHD, PTSD and 'high-functioning' Asperger's/autism."I have been prescribed nearly every pharmaceutical for anxiety relief over 10 years: Ativan, Xanax and BusPar to name a few examples (as well as mood stabilizers, anti-depressants, plus) and NEVER noticed that they worked in a positive way that they were intended to, or even touched the crippling anxiety I had about my past life situations like living with abusive people, chronic stress, losing job, getting kicked out at 17, etc. (We all know they're not supposed to be prescribed for that, but what do you do when you were a kid and it was the only choice...) I noticed severely negative effects from them or nothing, as if I took a placebo. I've usually found myself to be more sensitive than others to drugs like pharmaceuticals and caffeine, as well as other herbal supplements. I'm pleased to report that I've successfully gotten off the cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs and haven't taken them for years. I was afraid of becoming dependent on them like I had witnessed with my parents. I watched them take 15-20 pills, shots and creams a day up until the day they died. Understandably, I've gained a skeptical perspective after witnessing that and many other horrible personal experiences with allopathic medicine.Currently, to sum it up, I'm dealing with a long-term, high-stress string of events involving the death of my parents with estranged friends and relatives stirring up trouble in court, so if you can imagine, it's taken a toll on my ability to get through an average day defending against them while extending already complicated grief over the sudden death of my parents two years ago.--Here's where I talk about the product--With all of that said, I can say this combination of herbs has had a noticeable lessening effect on my levels of high anxiety, such as before court dates and lawyer appointments. I have experience with a few of the herbs by themselves, but not in this combination until now.Usually when dealing with stress like this, I am extremely tense; jaw clenched, shaking, sweating, cold hands, no appetite, racing mind, stuck in my head, severe social anxiety to the point where I am selectively mute, but when I've taken this, it helps take the edge off. I wouldn't say it completely silences the alarm bells in my body, but takes it down to a tolerable level where I don't fear I'm going to pass out when I stand.When I'm having a particularly rough average day, one capsule is a good amount to help me do what I need to get done. Two caps works well on critical days, like appointments and errands where I have to do a lot of socializing or thinking about traumatic events.Sometimes I take one before bed and one in the morning because I have night terrors and insomnia from many things, including PTSD, fearing for my constitutional/human rights and also this hellish court battle. I've already gone through the whole bottle in a month, but unlike others, I DID notice its effect almost immediately after taking it (within an hour, after it absorbed of course).I don't have anything to complain about, haven't noticed any unwanted "side-effects". Usually the only "negative" of an herbal product is a bad taste or aftertaste, which some have complained about, as I see in a few past reviews. It does come off as a little plastic-y, but that may be the material they used for the gelatin capsule. It might taste different if removed from the caps mixed in with food, but I don't care enough to bother. In my opinion, the temporary plastic-y burp is better than dissolving Xanax, yuck! Unless you're into the taste of earwax melting on your tongue, hah.All in all, I plan to buy another bottle to have in hand for current and future high-stress events. I'm a very skeptical person from experience--I hardly ever believe something will work that well and this actually worked! The joke in the title is that I always thought Xanax was a sugar-pill because it literally never did anything, no matter how much I took.

I have been looking for a calming/anxiety supplement for the past year and I tried about 10 different kinds from high priced ($40) ones to low priced ($12) ones, supplements that promised immediate relief to supplements that promised just relief, to supplements that you could only take at night on an empty stomach and ones that you had to take first thing in the morning with a meal and 8 oz of water only. And of course as I mentioned before they promised me relief of somekind and some worked for a bit and some didn't but they never worked immediately. That's a prescription only kind of relief.I came across Calm Now and I thought they were going to be like the others since they claim to help in ways others supplements couldn't and this was said by all the supplements I bought. But one thing they didn't say was when I would feel the effects of the Calm Now supplement so I was very afraid to try it even after re-reading reviews that claim to have an immediate effect on them and re-reading reviews saying they haven't done anything for them. I was once again for the 14th time conflicted and skeptical.I decided to go ahead and try this supplement not only for the 💯 % money back guarantee but because this was the first supplement that I myself had come across that has the one ingredient that I NEVER saw in the other calming/anti-anxiety supplements and that ingredient was serotonin. I knew that it is a natural chemical that your body releases when you're happy. Complete happiness with no anxiety was/is what I needed. Something that just didn't take my anxiety away but gave me a sense of calm and a sense of wellbeing but especially a touch of being happy. I guess I'm weird like that; when I get happy which is not often, I get real panicky and anxious and can't seem to calm down so I become stressed and depressed for my mind to calm down. That's how the chemicals in my brain work and it sucks.I have been taking Calm Now for about 1 month and I take it around dinner time because that's the time I need it the most. I have a 3 year old boy and stay busy for the most part of the day but especially at night when I have to make dinner to a kid that's crying for some unknown reason and he's trying to crawl inside my leg, at the same time I'm dodging cars that have been left all over the kitchen floor, and the buzzer for the food and laundry go off at the same time and then after all that, its bathtime which means I'm gonna be soaked in bath water for the next 30 minutes then playtime again for the next hour until bedtime, it's very hard to wind down to go to bed because now I'm beyond anxious, overtired, overwhelmed and overstimulated and now I have to calm down somehow cause my panic mode just kicked in. So that's why I take it at or before 5pm. I need it for the rest of my night and it works. IT REALLY WORKS! I am so happy I found this. I don't know how I managed my life without it. Wait......, I know now, it was called Valium but it made me too tired to do anything and that's why I turned to finding a different and natural alternative and I found Calm Now. It works for me and I will never go without it. My adorable roommate takes it as well and we were just one big panicky, anxious, overwhelmed, overworked, and overtired family until I found Calm Now.Thanks for making my day just a little better in every way. It did take a week or 2 to achieve the full benefits of this supplement and I almost gave up but I swear that is when it kicked in and gave me the happiness I longed for without the dreadful panicky and anxious feeling of the night ahead.