Hey...Well, I'm not dumb, I know there isn't a complete dietary cure because life isn't that easy lol, but I'm wondering if anyone here has had positive results with diet changes. Maybe less intense episodes, less frequent episodes...

I know from experience now that I'm very sensitive to sleep, if I don't get enough of it. It can send me up, or it can send me down. My menstrual cycle also influences is. I know it's not PMDD, though. I just know there's an influence there

This last episode of up and down mood shifts was worse than my last one. I'm only 21 and I started getting BP II thrown in my face maybe a month after my birthday

It makes me feel really bad knowing it's a lifelong thing, and I have a part of me that needs a release...I can't give myself a strict bedtime, strict diet, no alcohol, zero drugs, and stay sane. It feels so negative, but if some dietary changes might help me, I'm up to trying. I'm just not sure whether it's even true or not. The articles I read are too idealistic...People curing themselves. Mental illness runs in my family and it's hard to believe all it is is a food intolerance running in the family, but food influencing mood and episode strength or frequency doesn't sound absurd. I mean if sleep does it...