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Originally Posted by Faith4553
I ask this questions because I feel like I've tried so many meds the last 8 years and have found nothing to be very effective. I've read that hormones can play a big part in our moods and emotions. I've had my thyroid checked but that always comes back normal.
Do any of you take supplements that help your bipolar? I'm really only taking ambien for sleep right now. I've had friends tell me to smoke weed for my anxiety...well that just makes me more anxious! Lately I will have a couple days of feeling good so I make plans and then can't follow through with them because I dip into darkness. The ups and downs are going to kill me.
If I can't find a medicine that helps, what else is there?
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Hi Faith,
I have had success with the following:
- Bach Essences - especially Rescue Remedy
- Vitamin B's
- Fresh lemon in water
- Avoiding processed white sugar
- Vitamin D (even though I got plenty of sunlight, my D was dangerously low. my theory is that our bp brain uses it up so fast, or doesn't process it well. you can get injections or high strength rx)
- Fresh organic veggie juicing
- Kombucha drinks -- so so healthy!!
- Therapy with someone skilled & trusted (I like one on one with specializing in Mindfulness Therapy)
- Exercise like fast dancing or jumping jacks when hypo/manic
- Yoga for anxiety
- Knowing that sometimes I just need to sleep for a couple days straight when depressed, only getting up for kids or other urgent matters. Interferes with work, but I'm managing somehow.
Pot gives me anxiety these days too... That was my main coping tool when I was younger.
Ambien could be giving you a med hangover... but I still take it sometimes too. Meds can be very toxic and cause sluggish liver, I've had that, made me so tired & slow in the morning, might have it again now.
I also have a long history of cancelling plans, it's so discouraging. But I try to stay positive & ride it out, I'm in a low mood right now. My friends are understanding but confused - where'd the fun woman with all that energy go...
Good for you keeping on looking for new solutions. Thoughts are powerful. Tapping sounds interesting. Science proves we can fall into learned helplessness, the same is true for learned hopefulness.
Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman on Happiness, Depression, and the Meaningful Life | Brain Pickings
Or if you hate Optimism lol:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.p...-the-antidote/