I've never been impressed with the whole vitamin treatment thing. Some people do swear by it. But some of it seems to be kind of a scam. There's some company selling a special vitamin mix that's supposed to be good for bipolar and sz, but it just always seemed like a cheat. I mean they charge a lot of money for the same vitamins you can get at Dollar General for almost nothing.

I took a second look when spiritual_emergency came here and said her child was trying the vitamin thing. I think it's the one I always thought was a scam. Because s_e is pretty sharp, it made me look again. s_e promised she'd come back and tell us how the experiment worked - win or lose - but she never did, so ...

About niacin: I read that people with sz don't get the niacin flush. So I went out and found some niacin (had to look hard to get the kind that isn't made to be non-flushing). I tried it and I had a powerful flush reaction. Then I gave it to my son, and he did too. Not sure what that proves.

There's a blogger who claims to have cured both of her daughters of mental illness with dietary changes. It all seemed too complicated to me. Here's her blog: It's Not Mental (I just looked at it, and I see she's pushing that expensive vitamin program. It's called TrueHope.)