Posted by bleauberry on August 4, 2010, at 16:09:32
In reply to Re: Effective Treatments for Mania, posted by morgan miller on August 4, 2010, at 10:22:39
I know this is weird to those who look at psychiatry through defined parameters, as if they were any, but for shutting down racing thoughts and/or mania the fastest things I have ever encountered were:
Serotonin boosting...ultra low doses of zoloft, lexapro, or cymbalta. Take a normal dose and expect symptoms to be worse. It only takes a smidgen of extra serotonin to calm things way down, too much will destabilize things. We're talkling 1mg lex, 6mg zoloft, 1mg cymbalta.
Antimicrobial herbs....antibiotic, antifungal, antiparasite, whatever....I believe a great deal of psychiatric sufferers have one of these problems involved. Perhaps not as a causative factor, but as an opportunistic factor. All I know is, any of the above have brought me from intense racing/mania to calm within 24 hours, and I'm not alone in that experience.
I personally do not like going straight to mood stabilizers or antipsychotics when mania/racing thoughts are the symptoms. Save them for later after simpler things have been tried. The simpler things can not only work real good and fast, but can give clues to help decide the next course of action if any. For example I mentioned serotonin and antimicrobials, but if someone goes straight to a potent drug without at least trying some magnesium first, that seems hasty and unjustified IMO.
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