Well, if you're sensitive to coffee, you need to stop using it. It can take months to get relief of the symptoms of caffeine buildup in the tissues and organs.

Please go to http://Doctoryourself.com and look down the left column until you find the article called "caffeine allergy" by Ruth Whalen. Her article explains it much more clearly than I can in this frame.

Secondly, to relieve some of the symptoms you're experiencing, please cut a fresh lemon in half and squeeze it into a glass of ice cold water.

The lemon is very bitter in taste, but in digestion it leaves a strong alkaline ash
(alkaline residue) that is calming to the emotions. Two lemons ought to do it--one every 4 hours for comfort.

If you are sensitive to caffeine, you should avoid tea (which does have it in some brands) and chocolate. They all make bipolar illness worse in those who are sensitive to caffeine.

Later, after you've calmed down, get to work on learning, please, what you can do to help maintain a calm atmosphere in your home. Look at websites such as
http://alkalinefoods.com and http://Acid-reactingfoods.com Many other sites
are helpful in teaching you which foods are best to help maintain a slightly alkaline state of fluids and tissues in the body.

For starters, you need to cut back on frequent beef use, pork use, and introduce more lamb and fish into your diet. Add fresh vegetables, have a fresh salad once a day and avoid white flour products, milk products, including milk, cheese, butter, and yogurt that is high in sugar.

Add a high quality multiple vitamin to your diet daily, and add some form of fatty acids 3-6-and 9 in either flax oil, fish oil, or other sources of fatty acids. (They have a calming effect on the brain).

It is known that bipolar illness is both a chemical imbalance and an inflammation of a portion of the brain (according to my psychiatrist). Unrefined sea salt used in your diet is much more preferable than refined salt or refined sea salt. It's the trace minerals that are present in Himayalan, French, or Hawaiian unrefined sea salt that are missing in refined salt which are so beneficial. Himalayan sea salt is capable of assisting in removing acids from around brain cells and that helps to alleviate the inflammation--even an aspirin is of benefit, according to my psychiatrist.

There is so much more information on this, such as folic acid and Deplin (a concentrated form of folate which can cross the blood-brain barrier) and is beneficial for treatment in depression that you need to research. Deplin is called a "food medication" and, as such is very valuable for appropriate candidates.

That's more than enough to get you started on a journey into wellness if you wish to devote the time and energy into the research and apply the most valuable parts of it.

Also check out Molybdenum, a supplement for assisting with glucose level control and in the treatment of people who have high levels of copper in the system.

Soo-oo-o much to learn, High Priestess, but so worth the helpfulness it all provides.

Take care of yourself.

Genetic

P.S. The point of all the work on keeping more alkaline foods in your diet is that
all medications leave an acidic residue following digestion; and, unless the body clears it through the system in 24 hours, it just keeps circulating in the blood stream until the kidneys can catch up and free your system of that residue.
Since most medications have a daily use prescribed, we have to try to counteract that acidic residue by fighting back with appropriate foods, fruits, vegetables and vitamins with minerals to help counteract and speed the elimination of that ash, restoring the natural ph value of fluids and tissues.