How can you over come bipolar disorder without medication?

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1. Brandon G says:

   September 2, 2010 at 9:01 am

   I am also rapid cycle bipolar and I also felt like a zombie on the medication I was originally prescribed. It took a few tries, but I actually found a medication that works for me without turning me into a zombie. There are a lot of different medications out there that vary widely in their effects. Talk to your doctor about the effects and tell him or her that you can’t deal with that on a regular basis. If the doctor says there’s nothing that can be done, find a new doctor. It may take a while to find the proper regimen of medicine, but not all medicines are the same.

   I know that doesn’t answer your question, but I felt like I should tell you that, based on my own experience and frustration.
2. ALiCiA says:

   September 2, 2010 at 9:45 am

   Wouldn’t that be nice if we could overcome Bipolar without taking meds? Well… were not going to… and even with meds… were not going to overcome it. Bipolar controls us
3. Angel says:

   September 2, 2010 at 10:06 am

   yes, yes yes, you can. The amino acid L-tryptophan, which is called an essential amino acid, because your body cannot make it, helps your body make melatonin, which helps with your sleep waking cycles, so you sleep at night and wake up in the morning, and helps your body make seratonin, which makes you feel good and not be depressed. I take 500 mgs at night, unless I am stable and don’t think I need it, and as long as I don’t skip too many days I am not bi-polar at all. I was a rapid cycler too, and I told my doctor about the amino acid and she was very very happy I found out about it and told me I would not need to come back to med clinic!!!! I think that people who are bi-polar cannot utilize the amino acid well from food and therefore your body is imbalanced. Since we don’t know the difference between night and day, and can stay up for days or sleep for weeks… believe me knowing that difference makes your life become normal, takes you off the roller coaster. I also, of course, suggest that you eat good food and get plenty of protien food too.I also asked a friend that was bi-polar to tell his doc about this amino acid, he goes to the same clinic but has a differen’t doc, and his doc said this is a place we give out medecine, “just take your medecine”, so obviously, he knows about it too… u will have to type it in the search engine to find a manufacturer to order it from, as far as I know health food stores don’t sell it and they don’t really want it on the market, it was competing with people taking meds.
4. Jody says:

   September 2, 2010 at 10:52 am

   Good luck with that.

   A combination of therapy, prayer and meditation, and behavior modification therapy, like Rational Emotive Therapy will help immensely.

   If you find, like most of us have, after fighting medication for years, that you still need help, a mood stabilizer like Neurontin will help.

   Neurontin is mild, non-addictive, won’t cause weight gain or negative sexual side effects, and isn’t a narcotic or stimulant.

   When major depression hits, depression that puts you in bed looking up at the ceiling tiles for days and weeks, then it’s time to try an antidepressant. You don’t have to stay on it forever.