I find myself desperately craving salt (sodium chloride) during manic and hypomanic episodes. Last night, I ate through two large bags of salt and vinegar crisps, and was still not satisfied. My mood stabilizer, Trileptal, can cause a salt deficiency but that problem has long settled. My cravings might be related to my BP (Your Personal Markers of Bipolar Disorder; http://www.wholepsychiatry.com/treat...rder-symptoms/), since this has been a life-long thing, and because I don't have a salt deficiency (according to regular blood tests).

Has anyone experienced this? Any explanations, and/or suggestions to control these urges? The quantities of salt that I'm ingesting cannot be healthy, and yet I think I'm going to go "crazy" if I don't keep eating it...

(I'm trying my very best to resist the urge to buy more salt and vinegar crisps. I don't know how long I'll be able to hold on though.)