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Originally Posted by SingDanceRunLife
No, you shouldn't. Not unless eating gluten bothers you physically.
Going gluten free really sucks. The food isn't as good and it costs twice as much! Want some bread? Pay $5 or $6 for a loaf that's smaller than a $2 loaf of regular white bread, and make sure you toast it before eating it to make it edible (save for 2 kinds I've tried). Not only that, but you have to read the ingredients of everything because gluten likes to hide! Did you know that the second ingredient of Twizzlers is wheat flour? Or did you know that even soy sauce contains gluten? Barbecue sauce sometimes too? Sorry for this rant, but it just really bothers me when people go gluten free for the wrong reasons, and I believe experimenting like you would be is a bad reason.
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Going gluten-free is not as hard as one would think. I think there are a lot of reasons for people to try to see if it helps their mental health. I've read things about it helping autistic children, so why couldn't a gluten-free diet possibly help a bipolar mind? It certainly won't hurt you to give up gluten. You have to be careful and read labels, of course. Our bodies don't NEED gluten to function. I think people giving up gluten because they think it will make them lose weight is silly (because it certainly didn't make a difference for me in that area), but from what I can tell, when I avoid gluten, my bipolar is like night and day. I'm honestly scared to try gluten ever again because of how bad my reaction was recently. Once I got the gluten out of my system, and then tried it again, I felt crazy. It was scary.
P.S. I don't do a lot of gluten-free breads and expensive GF products. I use a lot of corn-flour tortillas and brown rice for my starches. They aren't expensive. You just have to learn what types of food works for you if you go gluten-free. I'd be happy to tell people examples of what I eat for ideas.