As a bipolar person especially, I need to pay very close attention to all the things that contribute to or detract from a stable brain chemistry. Nutrition is a big deal. If a mood swinger never embraces a moderate level of vigilance over their nutrition, no amount of medication or therapy has a chance of alleviating those swings. Or at least there would always be the compromise of diminished benefit to any success. I don't know if low blood sugar would induce an abiding psychotic state so to speak, but i am aware that it can induce psychotic symptoms like paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations. Clicking on tabs on this site would be more informative about psychosis than anything I could probably say. LOL.

Ultimately, the only success I've had with living with this, BP stuff, had primarily to do with accepting that to a degree, this is the deal. My brain is like this. Some things aren't a good idea for me to get involved in which others may do routinely. Much of the life I created for myself prior to dx, was altogether unsustainable. As desperately as I believed that I needed to preserve every precious aspect of it, most of it was bad for me. I wouldn't have given up any of it, but my breakdown was sufficient in severity and duration to insure that I was spared the agony of choosing which treasure to jettison next. By the time I looked up it was all gone. LOL.

I'm rambling again, aargh, and I apologize. In parting, for some reason I want to say, each worst case scenario that I ever anticipated as being the thing I would likely not survive turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. Irony is the packaging the truth comes in.

I should probably finish my coffee before I do this, huh?