Natural Remedies For Bipolar Disorder

If you do not learn to take charge of the disease, the disease will take charge of you. I don’t have to have said that in regard to any particular disease; it is true about every disease under the sun. However the stark reality of it in relation to bipolar disorder is such that if you are able to stare it in the face, you’d never be able to deny the truth.

Up to fifteen percent of people who suffer from bipolar disorder commit suicide at some time during the course of their suffering. Of those that are left, close to half actually contemplate it, and some have tried to kill themselves too. You have got to admit it; bipolar disorder is not a condition that you want to be too lenient with.

Realizing that, another hurtful truth is that conventional medicine really does not have all the answers to this condition. There is psychotherapy that actually does help treat bipolar disorder, but it is hardly enough. There are also lithium medications that consist of mood stabilizers lithium carbonate and lithium citrate, natural mineral salts that help to control both the mania and the depression of bipolar disorder. However, they have side effects of virtually destroying your kidneys after you have used them for too long. Even during medication, lithium can cause you severe insomnia, loss of appetite, increased thirst and urination, and a number of other things you may not like.

If you decided to go the way of valproate and carbamezapine, you’d be better able to deal with the mania, but you will have no defense against the depression of your set of symptoms because they only can help to dampen your severe manic episodes. You may have heard of Depakene and Tegretol; those are their respective trade names. Traditional antidepressants also are no good for dealing with bipolar disorder because they’ll more than likely trigger manic episodes or worsen your bipolar disorder by causing you to suffer the rapid-cycling nature of the disease.

The first natural cure for bipolar disorder is learning to control your thinking. It may have a strong genetic influence, but bipolar disorder boils down simply to your thought process getting out of hand. What you need to do is to become acutely aware of your thought process so that it does not drag you around at will anymore. Once you know the thoughts that often send you off on a spin, learn to avoid them and focus instead on things that are bright, breezy and positive. Did I mention possible?

Win Bipolar Disability Benefits

Enhancing your energy and elevating your mood is definitely an option for dealing with bipolar disorder. To do that, you need a healthier diet than what you are already consuming. You may want to start with a diet detox; cease to eat what you are eating now and eat nothing but vegs for a week. When you return, start to take a whole lot more water, more vitamins, and a whole lot less carbohydrates and heavy calorie stuff.

Finally, the balance you need to help deal with your bipolar disorder is to be found on exercise. Listen; there cannot be any compromising here. If you are going to heal and stay healed of bipolar disorder, you cannot be too carefree about your exercise regimen. Days that you don’t work out may generally spoil the entire program. It’s not a lot of options, but keep these three up, and you will find one day that you have not even had a manic or depressive spell for years.

Preventing Bipolar Disorder Symptoms With Anti Psychotics And Lithium

Prevent the recurrence of bipolar disorder episodes is the best way known to man to treat the condition. Interestingly, a lot of progress has been made in this regard. There are medications that when taken at the right time, can cause the symptoms to stay off. They have side effects, but these are being worked on and should be perfected soon.

When you suffer from bipolar disorder, you are going to have to work on efficient management of the syndrome hand in hand with your physician. They will show you how to take the medication, and supervise your first few applications of it. Once that is done, you are on your own unless you have complications.

There are nascent symptoms of bipolar disorder too that need to be treated in a hurry before they become not so nascent. Of course it is possible even for you the sufferer to miss them, and you may need supervision by a professional so as not to miss them. Once they are

Bipolar Disorder Famous People – Celebrities Diagnosed With Bipolar Disorder

The disease known as bipolar disorder or manic-depressive syndrome has another nickname. This designate is ‘That Fine Madness.’ It was a soubriquet coined by anthropologist Jo Ann C. Gutin as the title for an article she wrote back in October 1996 issue of the Discover Magazine, in which she attempted to lay rest to speculations that there had to be a link between creativity and the disease known as bipolar disorder.

It is easy, just considering the thought of it to discard the idea as nothing more than living cloud-cuckoo-land. I mean, how can you say that someone as creative as say Leonardo da Vinci, who’s works still inspire a lot of people to do great thing in the world today had to be a bit wacko on the head? How would you explain that some of the greatest minds that ever lived were only deluded, and it was out of their delusions that they were able to do the great things that they achieved in their lifetimes? Yet the markers are there.

Lord Byron was one of the greatest poetic minds that ever lived, during his time on earth in the 19th century and doing a great deal to further the Romantic Movement. He was alleged to suffer from bipolar disorder, as was American poet Anne Sexton who died in 1974 at her own hands after what was widely known as a deeply troubled life that bordered on madness.

Virginia Woolf was the British novelist, essayist and critique who also took her own life after leaving behind a note that clearly indicated the depth of suffering she must have had in her mind. Ernest Hemmingway was arguably even more popular, a novelist and short-story writer of American origins who impacted modern literature in no small way. And then there were Tchaikovsky, and Sergey Rachmaninoff, composers of repute in their time; and painters Amedeo Modigliani and Jackson Pollock. These were all great minds that were well known and deeply troubled in some way, yet the works of their hands speak for themselves.

It is a general consensus that creativity comes at times of inspiration, which would suggest, if these famous people suffered from bipolar disorder, that it would be mostly during the manic episodes of their suffering that they created some of their best works of art. Also, some artistes are well known to only be able to ‘create’ when they are depressed, while they are loud about it at other times.

The tentative hypothesis of some is that ‘That Fine Madness’ that these famous people suffered from somehow prompted them to be creative, although there are people who think it is the other way round. Results from various researches and experiments are inconclusive because they point in both directions. Basically, there are too many people with bipolar disorder who are far from creative, and there are too many creative people who do not suffer from manic-depression.

If I may offer a suggestion, I would say that it’s different strokes for different folks. Great minds are great minds because they dare to go places that other people fear to tread, in mind and in body. And whereas several of them get away with it, several others pay the ultimate prize” either in mind or in body. Following the findings by anthropologist Jo Ann C. Gutin, there is definitely a link between greatness and madness somewhere; we just don’t know what it is yet.

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