Thank you for endorsing Lithium. I have been on it for 46 years treating Bipolar I. I am alive and credit lithium. I was hospitalized at 19 and 20. No more hospitalizations since starting lithium. No thyroid but I have my life.
First of all, I'm glad to have you. Please continue your work. While I had a great job, home and friends, I lost them all during the hypomania period and was left with a lot of debt. The idea of suicide was always on my mind during depression, but after I started using Lamictal, I started to become balanced. However, 3-4 days of the month are at the level of depression and these can coincide with very important days. I hope a permanent solution can be found for bipolar. As long as there are people like you, it means there is hope for us. Thanks again. Enjoy your work.
25 years on lamotragine. I’ve been off for 2 months. What they don’t tell you is there are pretty bad cognitive side effects long term, as well as mixed episodes, rapid cycling. Huge and lasting memory deficits. They don’t take into account the devastating withdrawals that disabled me and 2 months later still have days where my whole body hurts. Each step down, even 10 mg caused rage, irritability, horrible fatigue, fever, derealuzation, anxiety. . In my son he had all that plus psoriasis flares all over his face, sleeping 16 hours a day. Lamotragine saved my life. But it shouldn’t be forever. Doctors and scientists need to dig deeper into long term effects and microtapering.
I have been med free with bipolar 1 for 10 years. Keto diet, loads of exercise including HIIT, cycling, walking and qi gong. Supplements are very helpful especially fish oil, magnesium and L tryptophan.
That’s how I survived, but then I had two back surgeries and ended up disabled.. so I can’t do the “intensive “ exercise that releases the endorphins. I walk as much as I can. I can manage the lows w coffee even. But the highs are unbearable. There’s nothing I can do it seems. Lithium was effective but I got a rash……. But I may have to try again or I eventually won’t survive w the rapid cycling etc
For me it was the best thing I've done for my mental health. But I personally think it should be done along with therapy for the best outcome possible.
My first and only shroom experience was fucking incredible. I had the same thoughts over every day and I didn't like it. The shrooms opened my eyes for the world and I started realising as well what it's all about. taking shrooms is fucking amazing if you are depressed and don't know where to go in life.
Psychedelics tend to fix problems at their core, unlike modern medicine which tries to fix the symptoms. This is why psychedelics work great for depression, addiction etc.
It helped for about 2-3 years i did the “pick up the phone answer the message put the phone back down” method Which is only take the magic once !!!! Don’t go searching for that high the magic serious and it has consequences. If you don’t give it the respect it deserves. Thinking about doing it again but LIKE I SAID you have to respect the magic!!!!!!!!!!!!! You don’t wanna “fuck” your brain up even more with hallucinations ect
18 months symptom free from a therapeutic ketogenic diet. Highly recommend as something to look into. Dr Sethi at Stanford. Dr Palmer from McLain. Thanks for your work, Michael.
Great, well done❤. I dropped my meds in november last year, went full on keto, got a stable sleep schedule, had a few bad days, but all people do that. We can't be happy happy every day, in this world. Oh and walk a lot. Lost 37 kg now.
Thank you for your work to try and learn more about bipolar and hopefully we come to a resolution for those with it. I would like to see more attention to Bipolar Disorder as a combination of lived experience resulting in the disorder and chemical imbalance through a unified approach to harmonizing our thoughts, habits and behaviours with the temporary treatment using medication. I do believe medication has a role in helping somebody heal but that ultimately should be a blip in the long term goal not prolonged treatment of the illness. Evidently using it as a treatment continually loses its efficacy anyway. You may need it to help achieve stabilization initially but then how can we progress to continued euthymic states without reliancy on medications. I don't believe the road to healing this disorder ends with medication. With the slew of side effects that come with medication I am not content with tolerating those for a timer we cannot define of when you will lose that stability again. There needs to be more I respect where we are now in progressing with handling the disorder we need to dig deeper.
Side effects of anti psychotics for bipolar depression gave me tardive dyskinesia and now I’ve been diagnosed with Parkinsonism. Drug induced PD? Beware.
Very interesting conversation. Unfortunately most of questions we still can't answer. Would be really great if someone could provide us more information with co-ocuring (comorbid) conditions. BD often for instance comes with ASD. I can't find this topic being discussed anywhere. Also there's no much either research or data on using psychiatric medication for treating BD while someone is also diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. And those are very different brains. One more topic I'm really interested in is using thyroid hormones in treating BD (especially rapid cycling or treatment resistant). It would be great if you can have a chat on that, as again almost no one ever mentions it! There are research and data supporting that it's extremely effective as standalone treatment or together with one antidepressant or antypsychotic (usually Quetiapine). This I would suggest to either have proper conversation or at least try to ask questions to the experts in the field what's their view on that unusual way of treatment.
I have a bipolar disorder,my father also has a bipolar disorder. Me and my wife were planning for a baby. Is there any treatment available so that the bipolar disorder does not pass on to our baby. Pls help?
I would personally adopt or foster children rather than pass on my bipolar genetics. Even if your children don't have bipolar, their children may have bipolar disorder. And for how severe my bipolar manic episodes and suicidal ideations are, I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
@@kitlitmitt I have to agree w you. I love children and wish I had my own.. but I can’t imagine passing this to someone. I’m a “red blooded” male, so to speak- and I have more suicidal ideations than I do thoughts of sexual nature.. even w meds etc
My daughter is on Celexa. Seroquel, abilify, depakoye. Recently requested to go off lithium. She still having a very rough time. Ses manic almost nonstop and also speaks suicide frequently. I feel lost and broken
She is also being g treated with Suboxone for OUD. Some meds react with it. She has not been able to take a couple of drugs because of it and it takes SO long to detox
I understand. It’s so hard. I have been through the wringer with prescription drugs. I feel like a guinea pig. I live in Taiwan and they don’t know very much about psych drugs. I will pray for you and your daughter. I was just diagnosed with bipolar, and it’s so scary.
