Vitamin B6 supports brain function, helps produce neurotransmitters, and assists in red blood cell formation. Because of these benefits, some people take supplements in doses far exceeding the recommended daily allowance (RDA), hoping to improve mood, reduce anxiety, or manage neuropathic pain. The RDA for adults is about 1.3 to 2 mg per day, but some supplements provide doses of 50 mg or more, sometimes reaching several hundred milligrams daily.

Sleep anxiety is the nightmare scenario where fearing that you won't get good sleep causes you to not get good sleep.

We blame neurotransmitters for everything, and try to use them to fix every mental health disorder in the book, but should we? Depression must be low serotonin, and anxiety must be too low or too high norepinephrine. But this view has its limits, and more and more research is confirming that neurological inflammation may be as important or even more important than neurotransmitter levels.