Here's a tip: lemon juice squeezed (not canned or bottled juice)
into a glass of ice cold water and then drunk has a very calming effect on the system.

While the lemon is very bitter in taste, it is digested as highly alkaline and is very calming.

It was Edgar Cayce, the famous psychic from Virginia Beach, Virginia who said that we should all strive to keep the fluids of the body in a slightly more alkaline state than an acidic one.
He is supposed to be the first holistic person to treat illness in this way as part of his science.

I sometimes think that the medications prescribed for bipolar illness leave an acid residue (all medications do, I've read) and
it is that residue that helps to cause insomnia, restlessness, and irritability.

Even an aspirin is helpful for some whose illness is very mild.

Genetic