Help, I Guess? Venting Maybe? Or Both.

Omg, I am so bouncy!!!!!!! Uncontrollable. This is where the enjoyment of simplicity could turn towards agitation. I'm scared of that. Are these meds working? I don't think so. I'm scared of getting agitated. I'm racing so fast, I feel like screaming! Maybe it's the coffee? I am ceffeine sensitive and on my second cup. Mumford and Sons isn't helping. Arghhh! I need to slow down. I've posted like 6 times on here in the last few minutes and I NEVER do that! Help?

Embrace the bouncy thats my only advice and hold on.

Breathe, hang on, and be mindful.
Maybe change Mumford to something a little less likely to induce a road trip (hehehe- every time I listen to Mumford and Sons it makes me want to drive...far.) Try Colin Hay-Going Somewhere. Or Alexi Murdoch-Time without Consequences.

Hang in there, try to make some productive sense of it if you can, I feel that when I do good things with my energy I feel content when I come down. And proud that I was able to do something positive...

Thanks for your replies! I will be productive today which I'm not sure may teeter me more towards agitation too. Sometimes it does that because I get so determined that any distraction will piss me off. It's like riding a horse, one moment it's smooth and fine and if you're not careful, in the next second, you could lose all control. That's what I feel like.

For real! That is a perfect way to explain it don't forget your saddle
Giddyup, sister

Thank you. Forgive me for ranting on, I just need to get it out. No one in my life truly understands but you guys do. I am riding. I am scared and vulnerable. I am recently diagnosed so I do not have many tools yet to know how to cope with this but I am holding on for dear life.

Well, if you're sensitive to coffee, you need to stop using it. It can take months to get relief of the symptoms of caffeine buildup in the tissues and organs.

Please go to http://Doctoryourself.com and look down the left column until you find the article called "caffeine allergy" by Ruth Whalen. Her article explains it much more clearly than I can in this frame.

Secondly, to relieve some of the symptoms you're experiencing, please cut a fresh lemon in half and squeeze it into a glass of ice cold water.

The lemon is very bitter in taste, but in digestion it leaves a strong alkaline ash
(alkaline residue) that is calming to the emotions. Two lemons ought to do it--one every 4 hours for comfort.

If you are sensitive to caffeine, you should avoid tea (which does have it in some brands) and chocolate. They all make bipolar illness worse in those who are sensitive to caffeine.

Later, after you've calmed down, get to work on learning, please, what you can do to help maintain a calm atmosphere in your home. Look at websites such as
http://alkalinefoods.com and http://Acid-reactingfoods.com Many other sites
are helpful in teaching you which foods are best to help maintain a slightly alkaline state of fluids and tissues in the body.

For starters, you need to cut back on frequent beef use, pork use, and introduce more lamb and fish into your diet. Add fresh vegetables, have a fresh salad once a day and avoid white flour products, milk products, including milk, cheese, butter, and yogurt that is high in sugar.

Add a high quality multiple vitamin to your diet daily, and add some form of fatty acids 3-6-and 9 in either flax oil, fish oil, or other sources of fatty acids. (They have a calming effect on the brain).

It is known that bipolar illness is both a chemical imbalance and an inflammation of a portion of the brain (according to my psychiatrist). Unrefined sea salt used in your diet is much more preferable than refined salt or refined sea salt. It's the trace minerals that are present in Himayalan, French, or Hawaiian unrefined sea salt that are missing in refined salt which are so beneficial. Himalayan sea salt is capable of assisting in removing acids from around brain cells and that helps to alleviate the inflammation--even an aspirin is of benefit, according to my psychiatrist.

There is so much more information on this, such as folic acid and Deplin (a concentrated form of folate which can cross the blood-brain barrier) and is beneficial for treatment in depression that you need to research. Deplin is called a "food medication" and, as such is very valuable for appropriate candidates.

That's more than enough to get you started on a journey into wellness if you wish to devote the time and energy into the research and apply the most valuable parts of it.

Also check out Molybdenum, a supplement for assisting with glucose level control and in the treatment of people who have high levels of copper in the system.

Soo-oo-o much to learn, High Priestess, but so worth the helpfulness it all provides.

Take care of yourself.

Genetic

P.S. The point of all the work on keeping more alkaline foods in your diet is that
all medications leave an acidic residue following digestion; and, unless the body clears it through the system in 24 hours, it just keeps circulating in the blood stream until the kidneys can catch up and free your system of that residue.
Since most medications have a daily use prescribed, we have to try to counteract that acidic residue by fighting back with appropriate foods, fruits, vegetables and vitamins with minerals to help counteract and speed the elimination of that ash, restoring the natural ph value of fluids and tissues.

Thanks, genetic, for your very detailed response. I appreciate you taking the time to write all that, I really do. I will try the lemon thing and look into getting some fish oil pills. I also read the caffeine allergy thing and I've known for a while that I have a sensitivity to it. I normally have one cup in the morning and sometimes one more cup later in the day and will be fine with it. Anything more than two cups in one sitting and I will get the caffeine jitters. So to be clear, one of your suggestions is to get more alkaline foods to balance the acid from the meds? I don't think I can refrain from dairy though!! LOL Thank you again.

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I understand how you feel. I have cravings for certain foods at times
that I don't resist very well. If you need dairy products, just try to
stay with the low-fat brands if you can and cut back a little, perhaps.

Thanks for offering to be a friend. Glad to welcome you.

Genetic