Fletch, what medications are you taking for bipolar illness? Did you see a psychiatrist at the hospital who prescribed for you and gave you discharge directions?

Some of the first things you need to do, according to my psychiatrist, are these:

1. Don't use alcohol in any form; it makes bipolar illness worse.
2. Don't eat or drink anything containing caffeine; it makes bipolar illness worse.
3. Take your meds.
4. Establish a routine sleep schedule and adhere to it.

Things will gradually improve as you remove the caffeine from your diet. Go to
a website called Alkaline Foods.com and learn which foods are digested as more
alkaline than acidic. You need to keep your diet slightly on the alkaline side for best
feeling tone.

All medications are digested as acidic, so you need to offset that effect by using something like lemon juice in cold water once or twice a day to create a calming effect.

If you want to make the best of a somewhat difficult situation with bipolar illness, you
will want to learn all you can about diet, foods to avoid, which ones are best for
keeping a calm emotional state and how important it is to see that you get proper rest and exercise.

But take it slowly so that you don't get discouraged. Changing your eating habits is going to take time, so go at it at a satisfying pace. Stop the caffeine right away, because it sometimes takes months for that to dissipate as a cause of low feeling tone in bipolar illness. You see, caffeine isn't removed from the system as water is. It clings to organs and often makes things worse over a long period of time, so if you've been a big fan of caffeine, it may take you up to a year to remove its negative effects from your system.

Drink water, please.

Keep thinking fresh water, fresh foods, no caffeine, no alcohol.
That will get you started.

Take care of yourself first now.

Genetic