I've written so much about diets and changes that are capable of helping
bipolar patients. I want to give you several references that will give
you some different opinions on how to treat bipolar illness, knowing that
medications are often very much part of the needs to keep chemistry stabilized.

One of them is this link: http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/
(Please go down the index on the Doctors data and read any of the
articles that appeal to you.) Usually, the articles are interesting in their
observations and work results.

http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Allergies.com (This one is difficult to open,
so you'll need to work at finding it. You might also try this one (hoping that it will open for you): http://www.amazon.com/Brain-Allergie...tions/dp/06580 Please read the article call "How to CURE 'mental illness'". (December 23, 2005) by aad. It is a review from the book "Brain Allergies"--well worth our reading.

The second one is so difficult to open. Please try this one instead: (it opens well
using Google as your search engine)
www.http://hriptc.org . It's an introduction to Pfeiffer Treatment Center and
has many articles that may be of interest to anyone with children having
mental disorders and parents trying to alleviate the side effects of medications by using alternative help.

"Causes and Natural Treatments for Bipolar Disorder" by Patric Darby, M.D.
located at http://www.paracelsusclinic.com . (You'll have to type in the
blank search space "Causes and Natural Treatments for Bipolar Disorder".
(If you open the site, you get the impression that it's for cancer treatment only. That's not the case. You may just open the article by searching in the search pane.)

I want to emphasize that I will never suggest that all types of bipolar illness could be cured by diet; that would be an absurd assumption.

I do think, however, that people like Dr. Philpot and his work in treating
thousands of patients with bipolar illness, schizophrenia, ADHD, depression, etc., have added a new dimension to the treatment of mental illnesses that the field of psychopharmacology is ignoring. (This is illustrated clearly in his work included in Safe Harbor in http://alternativementalhealth.com

One article in the "Brain Allergy" book makes an interesting comment:
that if psychotropic medications worked, they would cure the mental illness. What they really do is mask the underlying causes of the illness.

And, finally , the oft repeated website http://www.doctoryourself.com (please
read down the column on the left-hand side until you see the article "caffeine
allergy" by Ruth Whalen. For those sensitive to caffeine, it's a real must for
understanding what caffeine can do to the brain and the symptoms it causes
in patients sensitive to it.

There must be alternatives and there is a wealth of information regarding that in publications and on the internet. We need to be careful, though, about whom we are willing to believe on the internet. Not all things are correct on the net, as you well know.

For some reason I woke up this morning feeling just great.

I hope you all have a really good day and that problems will dissolve
for you as you wish and pray about.

Thanks for letting me talk to you about these things.

[Gus1234U]

thanks for this comprehensive guide,, i hope it's helpful to many~

[Confusedinomicon]

You are totally right about food sensitivities effecting moods. >.>

I learned this in the past two months.

[Anika.]

I think so too Confused. And it's funny how we disconnect our mind from our body or even our brain from the rest of the body when they make a whole. If we accept that it has something to do with chemicals then we cannot deny thay food is also chemicals and ones that we are constantly and are continually putting into our bodies and brain. We see how much food effects our body, why would it not effect the brain just as much when the brain is another organ of the body, and an impotant one.

Even with physical illnesses like chrones they know there is a direct correlation between gut and emotions. It is all connected as a whole unit. It really is an important factor.

Oh, Confusedinomicom, I am so glad to see you accepting some of these
ideas. It can only help you in the long run.

I hope you found the light lamp you were looking for to relieve depression
from lack of sunlight in winter. ("sad", I think it's called--correct me if I'm wrong.)