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Originally Posted by genetic
My answer (as an elderly person) is that if you take meds to stabilize your chemistry and don't fool around with poor diets habitually, and set yourself a regular sleep schedule, the illness does "mellow" with age. In fact, it's quite likely that you may be able to feel comfortable and content with just a minimum of medication.
I do believe that it can get worse if a bipolar patient refuses to see a psychiatrist and refuses all efforts at medication to assist with blood brain chemistry.
Did you know that there are cases in which bipolar patients' diets have been so improved that the patient was able to do without meds? That's not frequent, however. Orthomolecular science has the edge on treatment of bipolar illness, in my view. But that's another subject entirely .
Take care.
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i am female, 66, and from reading all that's been posted, i'm gonna say it's an individual issue of whether bipolar gets worse w/age. not once have i ever missed a medication schedule, have read a lot about this bp2 (hypomanic, not depressed), have exercised every single day of my life when i could, eat healthy, know and try to avoid my personal triggers, and have found going thru menopause was a difficult time for my bipolar, and now at 66 sleep has become almost non-existent w/o the help of ambien or seroquel or a benzo. to stop the racing thoughts which are now familiar but almost non-existent 30 years ago. i keep a regular sleep schedule yet i still struggle.