Can bi-polar disorder be managed by diet instead of meds?
2007-05-02 09:27:31 · 8 answers · asked by PartyTimeBBW N 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Bipolar is classified as one of the serious mental illnesses. Meds can manage it, but meds cannot cure it. However, there are highly questionable web sites which will offer to see you a natural cure - think about it, if there was a natural cure (and things like that cannot be patented) it would be all over the news.
Stay on your meds.
2007-05-02 10:45:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theoretically, it should be possible to manage any medical condition with diet or herbal treatments. When you think about it, commercially manufactured medicines that you get from pharmaceuticals companies are made from plants that are found out in nature. Then, the pharmacological researchers figure out which active ingredient in this, that, or the other plant helps with this, that, or the other disease and then extract those active ingredients and put them into a pill form. However, the thing is that you need to know how much of this herb or that food will take over the curative functions of the old meds. Also, I wouldn't go off your meds without your doctor's advice (especially not all at once) because the side effects can be really nasty. The other thing, if you try the natural approach, is that there is a lot more required scientific investigation with the pharmaceuticals (when they're going through FDA approvals) than for natural treatments.
2007-05-02 14:16:11 · answer #2 · answered by Theodore H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Bipolar is an imbalance of brain chemicals. It is an organic mental disorder and should be treated with medications. Stay on the medication. You may feel fine until you either have a manic episode or a major depressive episode. Then it's back to square one.
2007-05-02 09:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by Austin Danger Powers 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some foods as chocolate (bar) and milk may help people produce more serotonin and feel better, (recommended for pure depression at least) but that does not mean meds can be stopped
2007-05-02 09:40:31 · answer #4 · answered by mbestevez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anybody is bi-polar one way or yet another. all of us have temper swings. call it bi-polar in case you pick yet I see it as yet another conspiracy from pharmaceutical agencies to make added funds by skill of advertising extra drugs to depressed human beings. If a individual shows to many temper swings or "substitute in personalities" the suited ingredient is to stay away. they could be risky to themselves and others. Edit: playstation One individual in the back of many Avatars on Y/A could be a demonstration of unstability besides. pay attention.
2016-10-04 06:50:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband & I both have bipolar, and we've tried everything. Bottom line -- no. The medications do a better job of controlling it than anything else we've found, including exercise, dieting, and herbs.
2007-05-02 09:35:23 · answer #6 · answered by phillipa_gordon 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't and I refused medication for 10 years.
Waste of time.
2007-05-05 18:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by lexi m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Meds and STAY ON THEM.
2007-05-02 09:35:37 · answer #8 · answered by Lisa P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋