Posted by linkadge on November 13, 2008, at 20:16:18
In reply to Anyone Ever Feel More Confused At This Forum?, posted by bulldog2 on November 13, 2008, at 11:57:12
I think people go from one extreme to the other.
Sure, I believe meds are toxic. That doesn't mean I think that doctors are out to get you etc. etc.
I think people just want to believe one extreme cause it makes things nice and easy to understand. Life is always somewhere in between.
I just personally think they haven't invented something that is safe (or terrably effective for that matter).
Most of the BP medications are neurotoxic. I don't mean that as an undeducated blanket statement but it is essentially true.
Low does lithium is probably the safest BP med and even it has its toxicities.BP II is basically a mitochondrial disorder IMHO,
How about turmeric and omega-3? Turmeric is a stronger antidepressant that SSRI's in mouse studies and it is powerfully neruoprotective / neurotrophic. Agents like this are showing promise in a number of brain diseases. Its time to give your brain what it needs. That doesn't mean go all out and shovel down piles of vitamins and amino acids, it means judiciously picking substances which have documented effects in problems like this.
Bipolar and BPII are some of the poorest treated mood disorders in my opinion. Most people spend way to much time in the depressive phase and there are significant and lasting impairments in cognition etc which often remain inadressed.
Treating a mood disorder is a puzzle. Perhaps medicaitons are a piece of that puzzle for you. But, they are still just one tool in the trunk. I think that a full recovery will necessarily take more than medications. The people who recover fully are the ones that attack it from every possible angle.
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