Posted by yellowhat on June 16, 2006, at 11:33:36
I've been an extremely rapid cycling bipolar since I was a teenager and am now 31 years old. I quit medication once at 25 and functioned pretty well until I was about 27 when I was put on more and much stronger medication. As was pretty much the case the first time, my thinking became hazy and I became stoopid. I didn't even get Will & Grace, people, and that humor is pretty darned basic.
When I got off of medication the second time, it was really rough-going-- I talked about it on this forum. 6 months later I went to see a naturopathic doctor who started me on homeopathy. I've been on it for a year and half now, and I'm not saying it's without its ups and downs, but I am more functional than I've been in my entire life, I'm sharp and creative, I'm capable in ways I've not been as an adult.
Whether or not you understand or agree with homeopathy's premise, it works. I didn't necessarily believe in or understand it at first, either, but it had an effect nonetheless.
I was extremely sick, people. Death's door kind of stuff. It takes months to notice the fact that you're actually healing and not just swallowing emotional painkillers and continuing to play on a bum emotional leg, which is all psychiatric meds do, really. Supplementing with vitamins and a little 5thp is a great idea, too, and any accredited naturopathic doctor will suggest vitamins and nutritional guidance.
It helps if you're naturally a motivated and goal-oriented person and not a common lazy American fat[*]ss, because it's about healing, which takes patience and self-love, and not about going to sleep and waking up numb inside and repressing everything. * Asterisk inserted on 6-24-06.
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