Posted by barbaracat on August 6, 2005, at 19:36:48
In reply to Re: homeopathy - worked for my cat!, posted by qbsbrown on August 6, 2005, at 15:04:10
> "Anyhow, I'm about 90% a believer, but I wouldn't depend on it for my only emotional/biochemical support"
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> What else do you depend on? Drugs? Psychotherapy?
>I'm bipolar so I depend especially on lithium. I take a microdose of an antidepressant, Cymbalta, since I don't need much. I also take thyroid hormone and the usual bioidentical sex hormones for menopause. Fish oil, of course. I take animo acids, i.e., taurine, l-tryptophan, L-glycine and a balanced one of 22 others. I take some fairly unsual nutrients as well. I imagine all these extras are doing something positive, but lithium, cymbalta and thyroid, and the other hormones are my mainstays.
I've tried to manage my bipolar condition naturally many times and it didn't work. Life got very difficult for myself and others. One day I may have the key but right now, I'm grateful for lithium.
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