It depends. If you haven’t taken medication, it should subside or improve within the first 6 weeks of the Lion Diet. Sometimes, within the first few weeks. If you’ve taken medications for it (e.g. SSRIs), it might take longer. It’s hard to say with the other less restrictive diets – sometimes people feel massively better cutting gluten and dairy, but sometimes their depression doesn’t change by doing that. My (Mikhaila Fuller’s) depression began lifting on a very low-carb diet (meat and greens). After I stopped taking SSRIs (I’d taken them for 11 years) I had SSRI withdrawal and was extremely sensitive and depressed with any carbs. The only thing that lessened the neurological damage and withdrawal I was having from SSRIs was the Lion Diet. After 2 weeks on the Lion Diet, I stopped crying in the morning. After 6 weeks, my depression lifted. It took about 5 months for the anxiety to lift. With serious withdrawal/damage, this can take a few years. My SSRI withdrawal lifted after 2.5 years (but after 5 months on the diet). However, I made the very dangerous mistake of “tapering” in 2 weeks. Do not do that. Do not suddenly stop psych meds. Many people are able to very slowly wean off using hyperbolic tapering while on the diet with minimal symptoms. Check prescribed-harm.com to find doctors familiar with hyperbolic tapering, and don’t be spooked by the website. I completely managed my withdrawal, but hyperbolic tapering would have saved me a lot of pain and suffering.
