Anonymous Question Answered

[avesher]

Although junior says Im not bipolar, I will do my best to answer someones inquiry about being bipolar.

At that age hormones are so up and down they play a massive part. I know of someone similar age who is EXACTLY like the person you mention and has had 3 stays in the psych ward with threats of suicide. They are now on medication which seems to have balanced them off.

However, meds for me were not the only solution. I have been on meds 15 years and missed taking them only 2 days. I still went through up and down days and LOTS of anger issues. What it boiled down to for me was nutrition and supplementation. Everything changed when I started eating better and figuring out what foods make my moods swing. I firmly believe nutrition is right up there with meds as part of the method for dealing with bipolar. I am rank allergic to msg and if i eat it I get really down and then really angry. I also get angry and dopey if I eat gluten. I stay away from anything processed as the chemicals tend to make me angry. I find the wrong foods can make a bipolar person think the wrong way and really affects their brain.  A bipolar person has to find out which foods make them "feel rough" and act differently. For me this was through literally making myself a guinea pig. And it worked.

Supplementation is HUGE. I have 2 relatives who had their brain issues improve dramatically through supplementation. By far and away the number one supplement for people with mental health issues in my opinion is Omega 3 Fish Oil. I take 2 teaspoons per day and without it the difference is night and day in mental and physical function. I also take 5000mcg Vitamin D, B Complex, Full Spectrum Digestive Enzymes and a product called Thorne Mediclear (highly recommend it).

In my opinion a persons mental function is a reflection of what they put in their body, and this is magnified in cases of bipolar people.

I'll add to this as I think of things, hope it helps for now. PM me any questions you have

[Uncle Joon]

Is there any point to responding to you if you will simply delete responses you don't like?

You might as well clear that up now so I don't even bother posting in your threads.

[avesher]

Is there any point to responding to you if you will simply delete responses you don't like?

You might as well clear that up now so I don't even bother posting in your threads.

well dont be retarded and mess this one up. This is a serious issue, someone is dealing with a suicidal relative and asked me some questions about bipolar. If you post like a dick in a serious thread like this, absollutely i will delete it

[Uncle Joon]

well dont be retarded and mess this one up. This is a serious issue, someone is dealing with a suicidal relative and asked me some questions about bipolar. If you post like a dick in a serious thread like this, absollutely i will delete it

I don't doubt nutrition plays a role in helping but I don't believe it is the key.
Drugs are clearly very important in mental health issues.
But fundamentally Cognitive Behavior Therapy  seems to be the key for improvement.
At least thats what seemed to work for my Sarah.

I wish anyone with genuine mental illness the very best in recovery.
I know what a difficult issue it is for those genuinely affected by it and the impact on their friends and family

Godbless

[pedro01]

As duscussed on the other board, a friend of mine had a daughter who was severely autistic. I remember on a river boat trip raising my voice to my son and she just flipped. They had to stop the boat and let her off.

No friends, school wasnt even a possibility. It was really by chance that her dad read about gluten. When he took that out of her diet, she snapped out of it in days. She lost a lot of her childhood but is a normal kid now.

Doctors suck sometimes.

Amazing the impact of diet.

[avesher]

As duscussed on the other board, a friend of mine had a daughter who was severely autistic. I remember on a river boat trip raising my voice to my son and she just flipped. They had to stop the boat and let her off.

No friends, school wasnt even a possibility. It was really by chance that her dad read about gluten. When he took that out of her diet, she snapped out of it in days. She lost a lot of her childhood but is a normal kid now.

Doctors suck sometimes.

Amazing the impact of diet.

absolutely amazing. Diet especially in autism has proven  to be huge

[pedro01]

absolutely amazing. Diet especially in autism has proven  to be huge

Absolutely heartbreaking too. The guy was a single dad. Every day was a struggle for him.

It's a happy ending but fuck me I'd be pissed that the doctors didn't spot it. It's Thailand though - you have no recourse.

Hell - they told me my son was autistic at one point. One doctor wanted him on Ritalin. My son couldn't communicate at all. He would just talk nonsense - you'd ask him what he wanted for lunch and the reply would be "spiderman, spiderman, spiderman, spiderman". School was impossible. In the end we found an Aussie specialist who diagnosed some sort of developmental problem. He went to a "special school" run by Brits out here - for 4 terms (at $8k per term, ouch) and he came out and went straight into regular school. They took a completely non-communicative kid and he came out being able to go into the regular school system.

Later on in his school life, he struggled and we got another Aussie therapist in. Basically, he's wired differently to other kids and the therapist gave him strategies to handle that learning environment. The therapist told us he'd never seen a kid like that work so hard at it and develop so quickly. I'd always ask how he was getting on in school and he'd say "fine" - I had a tears in my eyes when the therapist told me my son had admitted to him that he was really struggling in class.

Now he's fine - hates math, in a low group for it, love the IT side of school & top of the class. His therapist thought we'd need to intervene again at High School to adapt to that learning style but it wasn't necessary.

But all those crappy doctors - diagnosing Autism that he didn't have, wanting him on drugs he didn't need, not being able to diagnose the issue - I still feel like going Rambo on them every now & again for those few lost years.

[D.O.A.]

As duscussed on the other board, a friend of mine had a daughter who was severely autistic. I remember on a river boat trip raising my voice to my son and she just flipped. They had to stop the boat and let her off.

No friends, school wasnt even a possibility. It was really by chance that her dad read about gluten. When he took that out of her diet, she snapped out of it in days. She lost a lot of her childhood but is a normal kid now.

Doctors suck sometimes.

Amazing the impact of diet.

Diet is everything. Makes all the difference

[pedro01]

Josh - at what age did the symptoms show & when was a diagnosis made?

[avesher]

Josh - at what age did the symptoms show & when was a diagnosis made?

probably had symptoms most of my life. Expressedly started showing up in mid 20's, diagnosed at 27.

diagnosis was bipolar and borderline personality disorder, but the borderline was later switched to antisocial personality disorder

but hey, dont tell junior cause Im faking it according to him

[D.O.A.]

I don't doubt nutrition plays a role in helping but I don't believe it is the key.
Drugs are clearly very important in mental health issues.
But fundamentally Cognitive Behavior Therapy  seems to be the key for improvement.
At least thats what seemed to work for my Sarah.

I wish anyone with genuine mental illness the very best in recovery.
I know what a difficult issue it is for those genuinely affected by it and the impact on their friends and family

Godbless

The guy who does large mounts of coke and booze is a Dr. now too? lol