Re: does DHA make u manic and EPA help????

Posted by LOOPS on February 7, 2005, at 14:24:04

In reply to does DHA make u manic and EPA help????, posted by bipolarspectrum on February 7, 2005, at 11:27:42

Hi -
I'm not sure about DHA making you manic - maybe...I know that if I take a lot of flax seed oil it makes me hypomanic - but smaller doses are ok.
I did notice when I first started the high dose fish oil, it did send me a little hypomanic, but well within 'boundaries', and that this went away after the initial couple of weeks. I think a lot of people give up on the fish oil because it makes the anxiety a little bit worse to begin with. It is well worth carrying on through this phase in my experience.
EPA is supposed to be the calming fat out of the two, so maybe too much DHA and too little EPA can make you manic.
Loops

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