Hello, Lookingforcalm, you really should visit a psychiatrist in my view to determine
if you have a chemical imbalance that is causing your problems. With a teaspoonful of medication, you might be right back in the thick of life with work, friends, dating, all the things you want but haven't been able to achieve.

If you aren't willing to see a psychiatrist right away, there may be a few recommendations in terms of diet changes that will help to get you stabilized.

These were the first four things I was told by my psychiatrist to do:

1. Stop drinking alcohol if you use it at all--it makes bipolar illness worse.
2. Stop the use of caffeine if you are sensitive to it--it makes bipolar illness worse.
3. Get your rest--establish a routine bedtime hour and adhere to it as much as possible.
4. Take your medications--which you don't do at this point in your life.

If you use grains in your diet--that is, wheat, rye, barley, or oats, stop using them, please. They have serious detrimental effects on your brain--particularly wheat and the gluten in wheat. Wheat acts on the opiate receptors in the brain, but it does far more injury to the body. It increases pain in joints, etc., causes cravings, induces lowered intellectual functioning, almost inumerable things are harmed by continued use of wheat in your diet. (It's also highly acidic-reacting, and that you want to calm down by having a more alkaline state of fluids and tissues for serenity.)

We have been encouraged by the government to eat whole wheat products. Evidence now is appearing that indulging in wheat is a serious problem for the body to manage. Read Dr. David Williams' new book entitled Wheat Belly. He lays the problems out clearly and definitively.

Please drink lots of water, eat more green vegetables, and fresh fruit. Buy some Omega 3 fatty acid capsules and take about 3 per day, at least. Add exercise to that and you have an unbeatable combination of changes in your diet that can only result in your feeling 100% better in just about 4 weeks' time.

(Hint: the Omega 3 fatty acids by Nordic are excellent; the flavor is pleasant and
they have a very calming reaction on the system. Of course, there are many others out there.)

Any questions? Please ask all you wish to know about changes in diet for making your feeling tone better.

Feel good soon, please.