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"I haven't discussed bipolar disorder primarily because so little research has been done on exercise's effects on it. Recently, though, a preliminary study clearly showed that hospitalized patients with bipolar disorder who participated in a walking program suffered fewer depressive symptoms and less anxiety compared to those who were unwilling or unable to participate. And giving bipolar patients a stable social routine has been shown to improve long-term outcomes. It's only been very recently that exercise started making its way into treatment protocols for bipolar disorder." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"But the last decade has brought depictions, sometimes even accurate ones, of specific disorders—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression—and their treatments. Hollywood has, in other words, discovered diagnosis and nuance. Shine, A Beautiful Mind, As Good as It Gets, Good Will Hunting, and Girl, Interrupted have all presented characters that are ill but talented, impaired but not stupid, troubled but attractive. The drugs themselves have become protagonists in recent movies." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"It's only been very recently that exercise started making its way into treatment protocols for bipolar disorder. In some ways, exercise is even more important for prevention than it is for treatment. One of the first symptoms of depression, even before your mood drops to new lows, is sleep disturbance. Either you can't get up or you can't get to sleep or both. I think of it as sleep inertia—trouble starting or stopping. First you lose your energy, then your interest in things. The key is to get moving immediately. And do not stop." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"High-profile confessors of recent years include Jane Pauley, whose revelation of bipolar disorder in a book and TV special was timed with the launch of her daytime talk show, and three-time Grammy winner Shawn Colvin, whose tour was sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, the makers of the folksinger's antidepressant of choice, Wellbutrin XL. The favored confessional platform is The Oprah Winfrey Show, where celebrities like Colvin and Linda Hamilton, the tough female action star of The Terminator movies, divulge their inner torments on shows called "Depressed, Mentally 111, and Famous." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"We already know that fish oil is quite effective for treating manic depression or bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Fish oil capsules have two different types of omega-3s in them called EPA and DHA. It usually comes in 1000 milligram capsules and you need to take quite a lot of it. I recommend a total of about 10 grams per day of EPA and DHA divided into two doses. That usually works out to about 20 capsules per day. You should also increase the amount of fish and greens in your diet." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "After finding it could eliminate severe temper tantrums in one of his ten-year-old patients with bipolar disorder, Dr. Popper used the supplement in twenty-two additional patients, nineteen of whom had a positive response. Acknowledging that more research must be done to assess safety and efficacy, Dr. Popper commented, "Psychiatrists do not normally think of vitamins or minerals as modifiers of the effects of psychiatric medications, but the early anecdotal evidence with this nutrient supplement suggests that there may be strong micronutrient-medication interactions." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "DMAE (dimethylaminoethanol) Increase daily dosage from Do not take DMAE if you have epilepsy, a 150 mg to 300 mg, taken history of convulsions, or bipolar disorder. If you have kidney or liver disease, consult with your doctor before taking DMAE. Some side effects associated with DMAE in Alzheimer's patients include drowsiness, high blood pressure, and increased confusion. If you experience these symptoms, stop taking the supplement for a few days, then return to your lower daily dose. in two equal doses with meals. Do not exceed a daily supplement of 300 mg." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"USES Whether whole seed, ground, or in oil form, flax products consumed daily provide health benefits ranging from protection and support during cancer to relief from depression, hair loss, bipolar disorder, constipation, rheumatoid arthritis and many other conditions. Consuming 30 to 40 grams daily of a quality flax product supplies 24 percent of your daily fiber needs in a mix of soluble and insoluble fibers. A tablespoon of highest lignan content flaxseed oil a day is recommended to reduce breast cancer risk." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"A diagnosis of bipolar disorder stigmatizes the victim for life as suffering from a serious and potentially recurrent "mental illness" or "psychiatric disorder." Without any scientific basis, the diagnosis is used to push lifetime medication, and in criminal cases, it becomes a justification for lengthy incarcerations in institutions for the criminally insane. The bipolar diagnosis makes it more difficult or impossible to get health insurance or long-term care insurance." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Don't allow the sum total of your life to be reduced to phrases like clinical depression, bipolar disorder, or anxiety disorder. There are no "psychiatric disorders," only life disorders. Instead of being mangled by someone else's cookie-cutter definition of your life, seek to know the unique story of your own development and evolution as a person. Remember that all of us have to struggle, to go through hard times, and to find a way of becoming more in control of our emotions and more honorable and successful in our actions. Choose your last resort wisely." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "We haven't lost control over our emotions, we have bipolar disorder and need mood stabilizers. Our children aren't bored silly in school, they have ADHD and need stimulants. In a way, the contest is between pills and people. On the one hand, we can turn to medical professionals offering mind-altering chemicals. On the other, we can dig deeper into our own personal resources and increase our willingness to reach out for help to other people and perhaps to a higher power than ourselves, whether that power is viewed as a set of principles and ideals, love, our family, or God." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Conventional treatment of bipolar disorder involves mood-stabilizers and anticonvulsants, such as lithium and valproate, and psychosocial therapy. Some doctors use antidepressants as well, but even mainstream medicine has realized that adding more drugs to the mix is not the answer. According to a 2007 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the antidepressants bupro-prion (Wellbutrin) and paroxetine (Paxil) were no more effective than placebos when taken in combination with mood stabilizers. Newer antipsychotic medications are also being used." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Helpfulfor diagnosis: If a parent has bipolar disorder and a child displays symptoms or has been diagnosed with a disruptive behavioral disorder such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the child may be bipolar. Important: Mood and anxiety disorders and substance abuse often occur together. Terence A. Ketter, MD, chief, Bipolar Disorders Clinic, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. Don't Blame TV for ADHD Symptoms Tara Stevens, EdD, assistant professor of educational psychology and leadership, Texas Tech University, Lubbock." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Her true diagnosis is bipolar disorder and some personality issues. After all that time being "a teenage drug experiment," as the author called herself, all she needed is what she is getting now—Lamictal, for mood disturbances, and cognitive-behavioral therapy, for her interpersonal problems and her depression. Nationally, the statistics are simultaneously shocking and, well, numbing. Nearly 1 in 5 psychiatric visits by young people resulted in the prescription of an antipsychotic.86 Antipsychotic drug use by children and adolescents went up fivefold between 1993 and 2002." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Our results also suggest that bipolar disorder likely stems from the impaired development of specific brain circuits," explains Dr. Ellen Leiben-luft of the NIMH Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program. "This line of research might help us refine our definition of pediatric bipolar disorder," says NIMH director Dr. Thomas Insel. "The researchers are following up with more imaging studies of children with bipolar spectrum disorders and healthy children who are at genetic risk for developing the disorder to see if they also have the same overactivation" of this particular area of the brain." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Medications such as lithium (used to treat bipolar disorder, formerly called manic depression) and tetracycline (an antibiotic) can harm the fetus; if at all possible, avoidance of these substances is recommended. Some antiseizure medications are folate antagonists and, as such, can increase the risk for fetal neural tube defects unless folic acid supplementation is implemented along with the medication." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Three of the leading ten causes of disability (major depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia) are mental disorders. The most serious of these problem may lead to suicide. In the year 2000, about 29,000 Americans took their own lives. More than 90% of them suffered from a diagnosable mental disorder. Men commit suicide four times more often than women, however women attempt suicide 2-3 times as often as men.3 How accurate are these numbers? Establishing just how many people suffer from mental illness—that is, national estimates of prevalence—is problematic." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"If you have bipolar disorder, use this amino acid only with your doctor's supervision. CONCLUSION The Future of Medicine You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known and exist, before it is generally received and practiced upon. -benjamin franklin Many of my patients know intuitively that their various complaints must be related in some fashion. They don't know exactly what's wrong or how to find the answers, but they know that it is not in the type of medical care we have now." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Population studies have shown that countries in which people eat a lot of fish have lower incidence of bipolar disorder. And some people use omega-3s as a stand-alone treatment for mood disorders and ADHD. One study showed that people who eat fish once a week slow the yearly rate of cognitive decline by 10 percent. The Framingham Heart Study followed nine hundred people for nine years and found that those who ate three meals with fish oil per week were half as likely to develop dementia." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Lithium has been widely applied to bipolar disorder for many years, and bipolar features are moderately common among autistic kids, and sometimes ADHD kids. In many kids, I don't see both the manic and the depressive sides of the disorder, just the manic elements. For these kids, lithium can be a good choice. Interestingly, I have also sometimes achieved good results by giving extremely low doses of lithium, which is a natural element. The doses were not quite as low as those in a homeopathic medication, but did represent only a minute fraction of a normal dose." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Depakote is an anticonvulsant that I have used a number of times for autistic and ADHD kids with mood disorders, particularly bipolar disorder. Mood disorders often go undiagnosed in autistic kids, because when children are diagnosed as autistic, this diagnosis becomes their primary, overriding diagnosis, and therefore it becomes their primary area of treatment. Secondary diagnoses tend to be overlooked and un-dertreated. I have found, though, that successfully treating the secondary diagnoses can pave the way for more successful treatment of the primary diagnosis." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "The nutrient is also generally not appropriate for patients with epilepsy or bipolar disorder, because it has been known to exacerbate both conditions. My general recommendation: 100 to 500 mg. per day, depending upon age, size, and other treatments and indications. Creatine. This amino acid is often low in autistic children, partly because its metabolism can be blocked by mercury. Creatine is widely known as a muscle builder. That's why so many products for athletes and bodybuilders contain high amounts of creatine." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Anxiety and mood disorders. 3. bipolar disorder. 4. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. 5. Learning disabilities. 6. Speech pathologies. 7. Oppositional Defiance Disorder. 8. Insomnia and sleep disorders. 9. Communication disorders. From a conventional psychiatric perspective, Alisa had more than half of these co-morbid disorders, and could have been simultaneously treated for each of them, if Liza had not been such an astute mother. Alisa might have ended up taking a daily smorgasbord of drugs, each targeting a separate problem." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"We've had children with cancer who have also been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, or depression, or learning differences. How do doctors treat these issues? They give the kids—and we're talking about kids who've gone through chemotherapy and have already been exposed to huge concentrations of cancer medications—a prescription for Prozac, or Ritalin, or whatever else. Some kids at the ranch refer to their daily dose of Prozac as their "happy pill." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Other kids might have some other disorder either along with or instead of ADHD, like anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or even depression. (ADHD often coexists with other neurodevelopmental disorders that range in seriousness from a specific learning disability to conduct disorder.) In recent years, some parents and medical professionals have expressed concerns that ADHD might be overdiagnosed in this country, serving as an all-purpose label for a range of different developmental and behavioral problems. Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"I saw its wonders up close, when it is applied most appropriately to the people who most need its power: people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and major depression. A woman named Millie, who looked like a bedraggled Joni Mitchell and who had come to Brooklyn via Dublin in order to claim her throne—in her mind— as a folk rock heroine, was my introduction to the problematic but almost always necessary relationship that people with severe mental illness have with the drugs that simultaneously liberate and imprison them." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The National Institute of Mental Health breaks depression down into three categories (major depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder), but there are wide variations within each category, and the severity of symptoms varies with individuals and also over time. In everyday terms, depression is often ranked in terms of severity—mild, moderate, or severe. The 2002 study tested people with moderately severe major depression. We're not talking slight feelings of sadness or the "blues" here; we're talking real disability. Many of these people are completely non-responsive to drugs. And guess what?" - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In fact, mood disorders in general, including bipolar disorder, are increased in people with altered thyroid function.13 Research shows that low-thyroid hormone levels reduce the function of serotonin receptors (remember our discussion of these happy mood neurotransmitters and their receptors from chapter 6), which leads to depression." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "You can reverse the effects of depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, autism, Alzheimer's, ADHD, and more—if you know how to. The UltraMind Solution is designed to give you a specific method to achieve that goal and by doing so take one more step toward that state of vital health I call UltraWellness. You now understand the theoretical underpinnings of this approach. It's time to learn how to apply it in practice to fix your broken brain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

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