bipolar drugs

[Guest guest]

Also, besides being toxic as heck, the anti-seizure drugs usually

prescribed tend to make bipolar people feel lobotomized. My best friend

is bipolar, was hospitalized, etc. Eventually he got himself off meds by

doing two hours of yoga/day, tking fish oil in high doses, and painting.

He is now one of the best young artists in Europe. These self-therapies

allow him to finely calibrate his own moods, as opposed to the meds,

which take all control away.

He still self-medicates with alcohol when things get very stressful, but

yoga eventually brings him back. Being a poor painter is liable to amke

anyone drink, though, not just being bipolar.

-Ben Hawes, L.Ac.

 

 

Chinese Medicine wrote:

 

>Message 2

> " jasonwcom " jasonwcom

> Sun Apr 23, 2006 11:04am(PDT)

>Re: Acupuncture - Bi-Polar

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>To say a chemical is lacking in the body that medication supplements

>is not compatible with modern medical science. If you read those

>adds in magazines for anti-depressants carefully they say " it is

>believed " or " it is a theory " that mental problems are caused by a

>chemical imbalance. In fact in Europe they have started to ban the

>drug companies from saying this at all. To say that depression is

>the result of a chemical imbalance is like saying a headache is

>caused by a lack of asprin. W/D from medications is really bad, but

>there are ways to treat it effectively. You can give a lot of yin

>tonics and sprit calming herbs, then treat with acupuncture the w/d

>symptoms and tonify yin heavily, with mind calming and head and ear

>points. I would give more detailed advice but the poster is not

>treating the patient anyway so I don't see the point. Why won't you

>treat your girlfriends father? Who else would you trust better? I

>don't see any moral conflict here. Psychiatric drugs are very TOXIC

>(very yang and hot in OM) and while they provide a temporary

>solution, they cause more damage then they do good. In the long term

>patients taking these drugs may never make progress because if they

>stop taking the drug their symptoms come back even worse, in many

>cases they have to take them for the rest of their life. Vitamins

>such as l-tryptophan or 5htp combined with b vitamins are safer and

>more effective than ssris and could replace lithium as well.

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