Folks, do some serious research on the benefits of vitamin C in your diet and the necessity to increase it far above the level of the government's recommendation for
sufficient amounts to prevent scurvy. I'm not talking foolishly. If you do enough research you're going to find that, chemically, Vitamin C is very, very helpful in
helping feeling tone, (including helping manufacture serotonin, the feel-well neurotransmitter).

One of the problems with sugar ingestion is that it travels on the same pathway that
vitamin C does, and in so travelling, glucose will always take precedence over Vitamin C, leaving a deficit of Vitamin C in the system. Increase your Vitamin C to let the good effects begin to work on your system. (It will also help curb the craving for sweets if you have enough circulating in your system.) Sugar mimics the highs and lows of mild bipolar illness, is addictive and bad news for the body.

There are so many references which you might refer to regarding all this and if you do your work, you may reap benefits you never thought you might be able to achieve with bipolar illness.

I'm of the opinion that if we get the things straightened out in our diets, we can do so much more with the mental irritation, impatience, depression, etc. that are part of bipolar illness, as well as the manic episodes (which are a reaction to depression).

Remember that the illness is caused by a portion of the brain that fires too rapidly,
and it is a chemical imbalance. Those are pretty physiological and need to be addressed.
My psychiatrist refers to it as an "inflammation" of the brain.

Please cut way back on sugar ingestion, avoid anything with caffeine in it, and be
sure to get the rest you need. Avoid alcohol. These things make the illness worse,
according to my psychiatrist.

Just thinking and sending some things I've learned your way. We are all different, however, so what works for one may not work for another. Ask your psychiatrist about the newer things being learned about vitamin C, and don't do anything without his/her advice, please

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