Renner, you need to do a self-check on your diet for the days immediately prior to what you believe might have been a short manic attack.

Please go to http://rense.com/1.mpicons/acidalka.htm check off the foods which you ate for several days prior to the attack. Did you eat more foods from the alkaline list or from the acid list? (I'm guessing that you ate more from those llisted on the acidic-reacting foods, and I think you're going to find that you will need to cut back on some of those acidic residue causing foods to slow down and even prevent the manic episodes.

If you had been particularly depressed prior to the episode, it's possible that you
were shifting into a hypomanic state in reaction to depression.

It's so very important to keep your fluids and tissues in a slightly more alkaline state than an acidic one. For starters, put yourself on a lemon once a day for a couple of days. Cut it in half and squeeze it into a glass of ice cold water.

While the lemon is very acidic in taste (it is a citric acid food), its digestion leaves an extremely alkaline ash (alkaline residue) which is healthy for the liver, kidney, and fluids in maintaining a good alkaline balance in your fluids and tissues.

It improves feeling tone remarkably by calming the emotions.

Pleast get on a research project for yourself to find out what you should be eating and what you should be avoiding. I can tell you in the interim that you need to be having a fresh green salad every day and cutting back on beef, adding more fish and lamb to your diet. Eat more green vegetables and try removing anything with caffeine in it from your diet. Avoid white flour products.

Add a fatty acid capsule to your diet: one that contains 3-6-9 fatty acids. (They are
known now to help calm the brain--I suspect that it has to do with removing acids
from around brain cells, which natural (not refined) sea salt will do, also. In fact, I'd
give up the salt shaker you're currently using unless you are using Himalayan sea salt
or one from France or Hawaii. They do make a big difference over time in your feeling
tone.

I know it sounds authoritative, but it isn't meant to be. I know from experience what
works and what helps, and it might be beneficial for you, too, depending on your chemistry
makeup. It's worth a diligent try, I'd say.

Those ideas will get you started.

Good wishes,

Genetic