Alternative Treatment Bipolar Disorder – Using Exercise, Acupuncture And Dieting

Bipolar disorder is the half-manic, half-depressed, all-mad disease that inflicts your mind with bouts of depression and of mania in alternating cycles and with varying intensities, depending on the type of it that you suffer from.

Perhaps the best-known conventional treatment for bipolar disorder is lithium and lithium salts. For instance, lithium carbonate and lithium citrate are known to be very good mood stabilizers that have been in use for the greater part of fifty years – 1961, to be precise. However, lithium has a few limitations in the sense that it weakens your kidneys so that you experience increased thirst, lowered appetite, increased urination, vertigo, nausea, and muscle weakness. In extreme cases, lithium has even been known to result in kidney failure.

Due to this doctors never prescribe lithium for people who suffer from kidney problems, which leaves them reaching for alternative means by which they can treat the syndrome. Many people turn to anticonvulsant bipolar disorder medications, which are extremely helpful because they can tackle your manic episodes with ease, dampening them so that they don’t get too severe. Drugs like Tegretol and Depakene are rather popular in this regard, but only for manias.

When you have to treat bipolar disorder by alternative medicine, you should consider hypnosis first of all. By submitting yourself to the hypnotist, you may be better able to handle the stress patterns that can trigger the manic or depressive episodes of bipolar disorder. Further, hypnotism helps you to control the spontaneous switching into various phases of the condition so that you are able to spend more time ‘normal’ than any other way.

The Orientals believe largely in the balance of the body, and often they believe that any illness you suffer is as some sort of imbalance that you permitted into your body either physically or psychologically. To treat your bipolar disorder, they would offer first specific exercise that is tailored to return the balance that you have lost, and then they would recommend that you try to identify the trigger that set off the disease and learn to deal with it both by avoidance and confrontation.

Another alternative cure for bipolar disorder that you are sure to find in Chinese circles is acupuncture, which makes extensive use of needles to stimulate the nerve centers in your body to exhume the ‘poisoned blood’ from your system and to help you relax better. Funny thing about this method is that it actually works! The Chinese actually used it for 5000 year before they even allowed medicine from The West into their borders.

Other natural techniques for the cure of bipolar disorder include dieting and vitamin supplements. Dieting should have your eating foods like tuna fish and salmon, with a lot of mackerel to get your Omega-3 fish oil. You should lower your consumption of carbohydrates and instead take on more of flaxseed oil. This combination works much like lithium in stabilizing your moods. You may also want to consider any sources of vitamin B-12 that you can lay your hands upon.

Most importantly, you want to learn to take control of your moods so that they don’t control you. Some anger management classes may help in this regard. When you are able to face your own demons without denial, they will never again be able to overpower you, and that is a fact.