This! I've found I feel so much better having two glasses of orange juice a day, taking in meat a couple of days a week, eating plenty of fruit and vegetables etc than just taking some Centrum every day. I didn't seem to get nearly as much of a positive effect as I did just making sure I experimented with some healthy, vitamin rich food!

As long as I have a healthy intake of vitamins I feel a lot better than I would eating randomly and taking a vitamin-packed pill every day!

On another note, when I did DBT for a while (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), I noticed the elements of Buddhism it incorporated and in fact, my therapist practiced Buddhism and I could only describe her as "Spitirual". It was easy to see that she felt at peace in herself and at one with the world. If I ever said I'd done badly, or I'm bad at something, she'd say "Now Michael stop there, that's a judgement. What I want to do in our DBT sessions is teach you to be non-judgmental - instead of saying you're bad at something, you should learn to say that you could have done better."

I found DBT to be an exciting concept. I only lost interest because of the time it consumed, and the group therapy made me feel very awkward. But the point is, when trying to overcome some of the challenges that arise from Bipolar Disorder, it's important to explore. And Buddhism is full of teachings that, in my view, can benefit a bipolar patient. So it's not difficult to see why it's incorporated into DBT!

RB