Bipolar Disorder

How do you shortly explain the cause of Bipolar Disorder? Everything coming towards one he or she will remember. Whether they want it or not. In their brains there is simply no "Delete" button available. That's why those people have to put everything into memory with care. Only in that case there is an opportunity that they won't get a manic episode. Maybe people can realize what is going on in the brains of somebody who suffers from Bipolar disorder. What happens when somebody gets manic? The brain is starting to "run" up to twice as fast as normal to come up with anything that was left unhandled of half-handled in the past. It is like starting the same batch-proces on a computer which is twice as fast!

2006

After a disastrous 2006 (long and exhausting manic episode) I found out that lithium is the thing to take (with all its side effects it is the thing to be able to live a life worth living) With all precautions taken by blood-testing on Kidneys there is no risk in taking this metal-mineral at all.

I have learned to live using Lithium after all those years that were weaved with ups and downs in 2007. It is hard to accept that you have a problem that is that serious and in our community not accepted that the high energy in an episode can turn into inacceptable behaviour. In the past bipolar people went away and returned or not. Being in the Goethe Haus in Frankfurt/Main I felt strongly he had bipolar episodes as well.

The only thing I can recommend EVERY bipolar patient. Create a letter and give that to a few good friends/family that are close enough that you contact them at least once/twice a week. Tell them that you want to be notified when you are quite 'busy on the manic way' or quite depressed. You don't need them to tell what you should do because that is a thing you know for yourself: go see your psychiatrist and take e.g. Zyprexa when on a manic episode.

Information about how lithium actually works in our brains.

Lithium - History and Mistery Solved

Suggestion how Lithium works

Lithium controls the amount of glutamate in the brains

To me this information makes me think of the reasons why my speed-of-thought is lowered by lithium:

"Glutamate is the primary excitatory neurotransmitter, carrying messages instantaneously from one nerve cell to another in 85 percent of the brain," said UW Medical School professor of pharmacology Dr. Lowell Hokin, who directed the research.

Being somebody who always was more on the mania-side of the disorder, I can imagine that if glutamate is so important for us to exchange information in our brains, I could not cry, not laugh and not get goose skin from music during that five years of lithium. Simply the amount of glutamate being kept on one level could not put so much information to a particular spot so I could not cry or laugh for five years. To me they are the meaning of life. And I want them.

Conventional Medicine is not only convinced that their methods are perfect, they should ask themselves why people are looking for alternatives than their medicine with a lot of side-effects.

Until now this is what I found out about feeding myself and creating a life worth living.

The best thing you can do for your body is to give it more Omega-3-fatty acids to feed your brain with the right kind of fat. I suspect the reason of loosing weight during a manic episode is because another kind of fat is being burned in your brain, giving far too much energy! The balance between Omega-3 fatty acids and Omega-6 fatty acids is: too much omega-6 fatty acid against to little Omega-3 fatty acids. Taking about 3 grams of Omega-3 fatty acids a day will keep the doctor away!
Do not use too much Glutamate, especially in the evening, because it activates your brain and if no lithium is available to control it you may stay awake for too long. As lithium might be the way to control the amount of glutamate in your brain. Just like St Janskruid does for three other neurotransmitters.
Vitamin B3 may be the missing link in the way you use too little of it too control a possible damage of your digestive system that your brain is not provided with the right amount and contents of the Cholesterine molecules entering your brain as fuel. B3 is also said to be the missing link for Schizofrenia patients. I think it is good for ALL brainproblems because it is changing the way your body is creating fuel for the brain. If there is too much fat in the cholesterine the brain may get too much power so it can start a manic episode. B3 is the way HDL (with more protein) is created in a larger way. It is also the way Cholesterine patients can naturally return their cholesterine to normal levels. Take salmonoil to provide enough "good fat" to act with B3.
Vitamin B5 is the molecule which is needed by the living creatures to live. Without it life should not exist. Because of the working of your vitamin B3 it is good to know that a large amound of B5 is regulating your sugar and protein-digestion.
Vitamin B6 is used in the body to create every neurotransmitter to be existing in your brains. It can even regulate the amount of serotonin! That is why I take vitamin B-100 complex every evening to sleep well.
Vitamin B12 is probably the missing link for people with MD. Source: An ancient Greek minerals book. It provides Cobalt. That mineral must be taken by people with MD to regulate the amount of energy and hormons in the brain. It is most obvious that in larger amounts it could be replacing lithium if you are stable. Don't experiment yourself, go to your doctor!
Vitamin C provides a stress meter as I tell you elsewere on the site: Stressmeter
Inositol, although not sold in such a large amounts can be taken ub ab amount of 2000 mg to be a sleeping pill. A natural one because Inositol is a vitamin of the B-complex. To get to sleep for me I take only the B-complex now; about 100 micrograms of vitamin B12 is in it.
Take vitamin C to get activated in the morning. Take a large amount of vitamin B-complex in the evening to give your brain the right particles to create your sleeping hormons and also get your brain throughout the REM-sleep reorganizing your memory. In my opinion a manic episode is nothing more or less than a large reorganization of the memories of your brain, starting to virtually power the brain's capacity with twenty times. In that "run" your brain is trying to work around the large amount of not-processed emotions in your memory. Afterwards it feels like having re-organised your harddisk. At least that's what I feel.
Keep your emotions clearn on an every day basis and write them down or type them so that your family and friends have access to it and perhaps see in an early stage that it is going wrong with you.
Be careful with hypnotherapy because if you are stable and every MD patient can be stable after a Manic (eventually throughout Depression) episode. You can be thrown two years back in processing the emotions stored in your brain!
Lithium therapy worked with me the last time coming from a zero-level perfectly. As I had appointed with my wife she had to tell me I had to start. I did that and kept working, although a little "busy". My concern about lithium is that if you use it for a long time (I did for five years continuously) that it does not in any way start you to write away your information on daily basis. Without lithium I did actually keep my diary up-to-date. Now I am taking it again I did not come to it. As my opinion is that lithium is only tranquilizing your emotions I do not think your emotions are processed by lithium. Thinking in that way I have 5 years of unprocessed or partially processed emotions to come through to get ever live without lithium again (as I tried for a month.) I think the thing lithium does not (access with your memory) in a way vitamin B12 has to do in creating the right chemistry to put information into memory while asleep. read about it (sorry it is Dutch, but I will translate the most important parts of it.) If lithium were the right medicine, every MD-patient would not ever try without it because he or she would be happy with that.
If you had a good night's sleep and you want to feel what it was like taking no lithium (as I did for 25 years until diagnosed MD getting only a real Manic Episode at 16 resulting in a depressive one at 17) just drink 1,5 liter of water in the morning. In the afternoon most of the lithium is gone. In the evening you take your lithium again (as I do: 1 grams of lithium a day.)The risks of getting a manic episode from this are low because you got a good night's sleep. Perhaps if you do, tell your doctor.
My quest is not only to find out more about alternatives for myself. I suspect my daugther to be MD patient also because she is 2,5 and remembers information from her brain that I suspect is already exceptional. When she really has it I have 14 years to find out how to stop her Manic Episode in a more natural way that lithium does. Because she is a woman she needs a natural way because if she ever wants to get children she must not use a conventional tranquilizer. Hopefully she has only the memory of me and not the Manic-Depressive behaviour. In my family:my mother has it and an uncle has a light version of it only not sleeping well for a period of time. The uncle of my mother (her mother's side) commited suicide. He possibly didn't get out of a depressive episode. Family of my grand-father (mother's side) had also a different behaviour. I did not know whether it was MD and I cannot ask them because they are dead for a long time. It is said that the chance to give MD to your children is 5% As I look at the rates it is in my family I think with us the chance is much higher. Fortunately my grandfather (mother's side) added a hughe amount of humor into our family and that is theway most of us get through.
MD can still be a viral infection. I once read a piece that the Bora Virus is brought into connection with MD. You won't hear anything about it but in England a woman must be cured from MD by only using antibiotics. I would not use anti-biotics but will try it with Colloidal Silver in a few weeks. (My generator of that beautiful super-antibiotic is under-way) The reason you won't hear of a viral infection of it is the market of lithium and other anti-MD medicine.
MD is only a forced reorganization of your mind, invoked only when you have a lot of stress and emotional-input. You can't really stop it by taking lithium. But it will be less fierce and as for me it will last in a for you environment better-way for about two weeks. But can anyone tell me that if you are able to start lithium (from level 0) and blow away a manic-episode, why do you have to take lithium every day? If the emotional-input and stress are at normal levels you won't get manic, just like every "normal" person.
My version of MD is dependent of the seasons. I won't get a manic episode from March till September because I receive a lot of sunlight. Perhaps my brains run better on that. Order the book "The Field" of Lynne McTaggert to learn more about that. Next October I will use a bio-energy-light to try to keep my mind running in normal mode!
Fallling into sleep can sometimes be difficult: I use little natural things to get rid of my thoughts sometimes: Valeriane and Melisse. Vitamin B-complex before getting to sleep. Half an hour of nothing before get to sleep, just sitting quietly. Sometimes, in day seemingly depressed, St. Janskruid will help.
Writing down your emotions is the best thing to get rid of emotions. There is no other way for somebody suffering from bipolar disorder. If you have lithium or another psychodrug. The want to write down everything will be lowered. And that is not helping you out.
Taurine will help while taking lithium to keep year heart-rhytm as normal as possible (Also known to help while having low-bloodpressure)
Lysine will help to wipe away arteriosclerosis. Refer to this site for more information
Proline, Lysine and Vitamin C cooperate together to keep your bloodvessels in good shape.
Vitamin B3 will help to make more HDL-cholesterol in your body, probably the "better" fuel than LDL-cholesterol for your brains.
Vitamin B12 helps accessing memory and make your thoughts quick as they ought to be.
Vitamine B5 is known to play a role in your fiber and protein digestion.
Colloidal Silver (Silver solved in water) to keep away any virus, bacteria or other germ.
A Homeopatic Doctor prescribed me something so I can set aside things more easily. I believe it will work. It's no sense writing down which means he prescribed because it is done towards the person. If you'd like the idea of solving bipolar disorder this way, you should visit a homeopatic doctor.

My own experience with lithium....

Lithium lets you get less sugar (if you take the same amount it gets you REALLY FAT). Still sugar (glucose) is the fuel on which your brain "runs".
I had five years long (the time I took lithium) NO FEVER AT ALL. The last few days I got my fever back to fight virusses. (My daugther also has a fever now but she is drinking well and this night she calls on me every fifteen minutes!)
My emotions went back to such a level that I had disputes with my wife on fairly nothing!
I couldn't find out whether the other person was just kidding or not. So I had to ask everything seriously until others started to laugh.
Having a wife, a child, second one coming, a job - fairly said: everything! It was really hard for me to come along with running your brain at "half the power", caused by Lithium. Of course it could take away some little up's and down's. But the real emotion which I got when my daughter was born on Oct. 28th, 1999 - Lithium was too less. I got manic without wanting to do so. The day I failed, my lithium level was at the rate it had always been: 0,6-0,7 mmol/dl. It could not even stop me from getting manic. Why? I did not know. After I got on the ride again in december 1999, I took up my lithium and went further. In Summer 2000, I got problems. I didn't feel well and got everything checked by my psychiatrists at the hospital. Result: "Only your Calcium levels are a little high, but that can be normal if you take lithium for a few years. You are sound!" Still taking lithium, I read the book of dr. Rath "Why animals don't get heart-attacks, but people do." I read it all in a weekend. Then I drew one conclusion: You are taking a medicine which causes you to drink much and urinate often. The same parallel with people who take medication on high blood pressure. I got some highly dosed vitamin C and a multivitamin on the local groceries as Rath's vitamins are not being sold in stores (As e.g. in the U.S.). I started on taking them (about 3 g vitamin C a day) and suddenly I felt a little better than before. Perhaps it was true what dr. Rath wrote, although I never doubted that fact because he could explain why people get ill - a normal doctor can't, he or she is just taking symptoms away. After September 2000 I started with the vitamins of dr. Rath. I suddenly felt much more better. In January 2001, when we stopped using the microwave oven for cooking and heating our food (We used it for five years.) The last external factor except lithium stopped bothering me. In 2001 I got a lot of stress. E.g. they could have been moving our job 120 kilometres away. They waited half a year until saying what to do! I could compare it with the energy it took from me when my daugther was born. Still taking a lot of vitamins and lithium. I took so much of vitamin C that it really worked as a "stress-meter". If I mentally thought (during that same half a year earlier mentioned) everything was running fine, my body underneath was producing a large amount of stress hormons (e.g. Adrenalin.) As few of you might know that for every molecule of Adrenalin to be produced the body loses a molecule of vitamin C. That information was provided by dr. Rath in his book. What is the only way for the body to take away the hughes amount of adrenalin? You have to run for a toilet because it can come from down and up at the same time! My mind couldn't have known that there was a lot of stress for me around, but my body did! I got ill for a day or two. In that two days I could write any stress down into my computer. Returning "refreshed" back in my office one or two days later. Still taking lithium. In february 2002 I got a virus infection causing diarree and throwing up. My wife and my daughter were also ill and I had to stop my lithium because otherwise I could be poisoned by it when I took it with empty stomac. I stopped for a week and everything seemed to be flowing better. All the side-effects on lithium (some which I didn't even expect I had them.) were taken away. All the warnings I got were good-meant, but I managed to convince my wife that I would like to stop lithium. I know she is pregnant, that was perhaps the most difficult part of it, but I had to get a picture of both sides: With or Without lithium. I won't say I am never taking lithium again, in some cases it can be very useful, but my point of view is still unstable because I stopped lithium only for a month. But in my opinion the vitmin C in my body still acts like a stress-meter to me.
I feel lithium is good to surpress a on-coming manic episode. But after a manic episode my memory is completely re-organised and the chance of getting manic than is nearly zero. I started on lithium again perhaps two days late but I can feel better now when it starts. I am now on my lithium for a month, but I feel that when I am using it when the second child is coming, I will be manic again because my emotions will be that high that lithium is not allowing me. Said in another way: while summer I was never manic because of the sun. There is no reason to think I will be manic for a long time after reorganisation of the brain. In 1988 I was manic for the first time in my history. The second was in 1996. I think it is not good to use lithium for a long time, especially when you are willing to take it again when your manic episode is starting. The reason I overthought this is because yesterday I said things to my wife I wouldn't have said without lithium because I can relativate things using lithium. Other things: I feel my heart is not doing well using lithium, I get thirsty again and every other side-effect is now telling me to stop. The only person I can talk to about this is my house-doctor because he agreed in the function of a manic-episode: the reorganisation. My psychiatrist is only fighting a disease, but for me a disease with a reasonable function is not a disease at all. And certainly no reason to make you feel only half emotions at a lifetime.

Please don't take any steps without seeing a natural doctor if you are not sure in what you are doing.

Why lithium is not the solution to bipolar disorder (to me)

The first proof to me came on Friday, november 5th .1999. I came back from Germany where I broke our car down (Driving 160 kilometres an hour and then from gear 5 back to gear 2) My wife told me: "The called from the hospital, your lithiumlevels are good. I told the assistant then it could not be good because you drove away without telling anybody to get my parents out of Frankfurt." I consoled her telling that I could not help it and that I tried to have a surprise for her getting her parents to Arnhem.

Today it is Thursday February 7th, 2002. I have stopped lithium a few days because of an influenza-art which my wife and Angelique also suffered from. This morning I realized lithium is the largest make-believe to me as I can imagine. If I take lithium at 9.30 pm, I always fall asleep and can act next day. But everything not processed by my mind is left behind in the brains and will come down some day. If the emotions get to high (as when Angelique was born) even lithium cannot keep me away from a manic epsiode. In my opionion I would have been depressed in 2001 when not taking the foodsupplements as I did in that year. The adrenalin-levels have risen once so high that I finally realized on what kind of stress I was getting through. It was my own body which told me to stop by diarrhoea and vomitting. The largest danger of lithium to me is that it takes away the obligation to process all emotions daily. This obligation I took when taking no lithium at all. Typing away emotions always help me to come over problems and process information coming to my brains. Sometimes it is too late and the manic episode arrives. But that happened only after the birth of my daughter Angelique.

Sure, lithium acts good as a tranquilizer and puts away a lot of emotions. You are not aware of that emotions being taken away from you when taking lithium. Only when stopping you experience that. There was a lot of difference looking at my wonderful daughter this morning compared to the lithium view I had for five years (over two years with my daughter) I liked myself and felt as happy as I had not felt for over five years. Anke is pregnant of our second! Wonderful!

Those things went better off lithium than on:

Less slime comes from my lungs.
My heartbeat is a lot more comfortable - heartrhytmproblems are gone!~
There is a studie about lithium being poisonous to the heart. BMJ, 2001:322:1207-9
Lithium sometimes takes over control in my head stopping brain processing for a second when emotions rise too high according to lithium's laws.
Less drink and sweat
Less high noise in my ears
When unprocessed things of the day remain in the head, by the calming down of the lithium you always have the risk to get manic again.
Skin-problems caused by lithium are gone (pimples)
Reaction-power when driving is a lot higher. I drove safely without lithium from April 6th. 1990 until January 1997 without damage.
Lithium affects (via the thyroid gland) the body temperature. I could not get a fever with lithium. After stopping I got a fever!
Lithium causes a deficiency in vitamins, minerals and aminoacids after 3,5 years of use. Most likely from the amount of water I drank. - Similar with people who use conventional bloodpressure medication.
The best sugars (fructose in juice) are causing you to get thick when using lithium because lithium holds on a lot more water than natrium does.
Less pain in my chest. There seems to be less water around the heart right now.
I can sleep on my left side now, which didn't go while having that pain in my chest.
Five days witthout lithium let come so many unexperienced emotions that I am glad my power-of-thinking is growing to be full after five days.
25 years without lithium caused manic and depressive episodes, but I think they had a function to put away all emotions normally. That is absolutely the function of getting manic! My general practitioner said I am right thinking so.
Everybody tries to help you at his way and remembering that it is not bad at all to have swallowed lithium for five years., but I think it is not needed to stay on lithium continiously. Only when a manic episode is on the horizon, I will start lithium.
Without lithium, eating and drinking tastes better. It makes my flesh creep when I hear some music right now.
I can really laugh and cry now without taking away emotions.
I can estimate jokes again.

Why did I take lithium? To take away the chance of getting manic or depressed. A disorder which is with me all my life and of which I finally know how it feels when it arrives. The only time I got manic with lithium I felt safe but that was a wrong conclusion. The risk stays to be manic or depressed, with or without lithium.

Today when I translate this into English (June 13th, 2002) I am off lithium again for two months now. How? By taking Omega-3 fatty acids. They seem to take away the cause of our disorder.

Written on May, 4th, 2003:

My faith in lithium was gone when I took it day after day from january 1997 until 1999 when my first daughter was born on 28.10.1999 I wanted to live this beautiful emotion. When lithium would have helped me I would not have gotten manic after she was born. This was the idea that came back to me in the beginning of 2000 when I was recovered. When it would have been proven OK to treat bipolar disorder it should have been saving me also when such a beautiful thing would happen.

I told myself that I had to find something else. Halfway 2000 I fell ill. I had all my blood examined by the psychiatrist and he told me that I was very healthy - only the amount of calcium would be a little bit high but that would be normal when taking lithium for 3 years...

But I did not feel healthy.. Then I read a book of dr. Rath 'Why animals don't get heart attacks, but we people do' I could draw some parallels with peole taking medicine lowering bloodpressure and the medicine I took; the lithium. I started to take highly dosed foodsupplements next to my lithium halfway 2000. Starting 2001 I stopped using my microwave oven - another part of my regained health.

In the end of 2001 my wife got pregnant again and I had told myself that if I would take lithium with birth of my second child it would go wrong again. Alternatives I didn't have.. I stopped my lithium due to high fever in the beginning of 2002. I stopped for a month and got manic again. Started on lithium again... But didn't feel comfortable with it anymore because I felt myself without it.

In april 2002 I read a piece in the newspaper magazine that told that I should take Omega-3 fatty acids on a regular basis.. I started on them (next to my other supplements) and within a week I felt so stable in my head that I felt I could safily stop lithium. I had to do this on my own because I didn't want to tell my wife being pregnant that I stopped once again... After one month I visited a homeopatic doctor who gave me something (after 1 hour talking) that it would make it easier for me to just let things go... With all of this I stayed stable for over one year now...

I won't advice anyone who is satisfied with his medicine to try the same, but I am sure it won't do you any harm using foodsupplements next to medicine. Foodsupplements are the medicine that should have been in your food - but with a lack of something they can really bring back your health... When chemical medicines would be the real solution to our health-problems we would have been extinguished far earlier than the 1940's when those chemical solutions came in..

Very important for people suffering from Bipolar Disorder: Regular Sleep.

Short biography

1972 - Born on April, 6th.

The only thing seemingly to go wrong during my youth was the fact that I did not want to eat anything. From something I ate much, from others absolutely nothing.

1988 - After a normal youth, at the age of 16 I get my first manic episode, diagnosed as schizofrenia. Nobody was told that and I discovered it in december 1995 when talking to my new house-doctor

1995 - I get my first manic episode after 9 years. The way I was with my parents kept me going to bed during 7 years kept me away from any manic episode during that same seven years. I stand on my own now and get manic from the way I felt they thought I was schizofrenic

1996 - In february I was depressed from the manic episode I work in shifts and get my manic episode in October 1996 as my wife moves towards me. One doctor noticed me depressed (february) and manic (october) and sends me to my psychiatrist.

1997 - In January I get my first lithium. I feel very well with it because no manic episode arrives.

1999- October/November - Although taking lithium I get manic after the birth of our first daughter Angelique. The confidence I had in lithium lowered by that event because the medicine that should have been protecting me against manic episodes now seems to even cause that same manic episode! I kept on swallowing it with the lack of alternatives.

2000 - Halfway - I started going the natural way using foodsupplements, next to my lithium treatment. The reason: the lack of vitamins in my body makes me weak. For that reason the doctors took a complete bloodsample. They told me I had to be healthy. But I did not feel healthy. After reading dr. Rath's book 'Why animals don't get heart attacks but people do' I drew the parallel with people suffering from high bloodpressure taking urinating-pills. They too loose to many vital substances and so they'll make their chance of a heart attack larger. I started on taking good food-supplements. There is absolutely no interaction from any medicine to foodsupplements because the foodsupplements contain only ingredients normally found in food. I did not have to stop medication while taking foodsupplements. Actually I could keep on with swallowing lithium only by doing so!

2001 - January - Stopped using the microwave oven

2002 - February I stopped lithium while suffering from an influenza virus of the stomach. Everything felt better and I could even get goose skin of music, something which I did not feel at all during 5 years of lithium. I decided to keep stopped from lithium. Halfway march a manic episode is on the horizon. I started up lithium again after one night of no sleeping treating my daughter while she was ill; giving her to drink every half aan hour. The way my manic episode was surpressed by that lithium was good. I wanted to be treated that way with lithium, which is a normal way of treating, as read from a book of my house-doctor. In april I reaad an article about Omega-3-fatty-acids being very important to people with bipolar disorder. Upon that I started to take 3 grams of fishoil a day. Still taking lithium I found out that the fuel to my brain could not get me in a manic episode at all. Without noticing anybody I stopped lithium on April 15th. Only a few members of the badminton club know I stopped. When I would not get asleep I discussed with my father (not telling him I stopped because family is always scared about me getting manic) that I should take lithium during the night I could not get asleep. That easy way out kept me confident that I could not get manic at all. With our second child being delivered at the end of june 2002, I am sure I won't get manic and I will feel every emotion that is coming to a father who loves his children.

2002 - May 24th, My first visit to my homeopatic doctor Tinus Smits in Eindhoven was very successful. He believed my story about omega-3 fatty acids and even sold me flax-oil, even a better source than fishoil. He diagnosed very well and I felt the first time to be taken seriously by a doctor. He prescribed Carcino Sinum 100k twice a week two granules. After a week I start taking this and playing badminton at once started to go a lot better because I didn't care so much anymore. It is a very good and normal natural feeling. That is the only thing I could notice from taking this homeopatic granules.

2002 - June 3th, I tell my psychiatrist that I stopped lithium once again - and hopefully forever. He had to respect my choice, although he doesn't understand. He assured me that I could come back whenever I started on lithium again. I made an appointment with him on October 31st and I am still seeing him once half a year. It is not that I am angry with him, because he did what he knows to help me. That this was no help for me at all, that is a pity, but he at least respects my choice.

2002 - June 30th, our second child Chantal has been born and still my wife didn't even know by now that I stopped lithium. About one month after her birth I told her that I stopped lithium. In fact she had already noticed other reactions. We had less disputes and everything with me seemed to go easier. No trouble at all with the birth of our second daughter. I really enjoy this!

2002 - autumn, normally at autumn I can get in trouble, but the trouble stays away and I still feel as normal as I did last summer. The homeopatic substance is now Carcino sinum 200k every week. After a while it will be Carcino Sinum MK every two weeks. It is simply great how I feel and behave. I sleep well - that is the most important thing for somebody who is affected to some trouble with the brain! I am happy I took this step. My brain is reaching its full 'power' again and that on normal fuel!

The reason I could stop on April 15th, 2002 now is 2 way:
- Omega-3 fatty acids (1 gram; 3 times a day) take away one of the causes of bipolar disorder, along with aminoacid-complex and vitamin B-complex 100 taken in the evening before going to bed. In the morning followed by a good multivitamin with aminoacids in the morning. As for the Omega-3 fatty acids it just feels they are the right fuel to my brains. Other fat (with higher burn power) is in my opinion able to start a manic episode's energy to flow from your brain.
- I visited a homeopatic doctor who prescribed me something to make it easier to just 'let things the way they are' . It's no use telling the right substance because it was prescribed after a one hour's talk about myself and should fit to myself. Of course you read a lot of stories about this kind of 'adventure' but I think in the end I've got back my emotions while not taking lithium at all.

What happend in 2004:

One man came across my path and he told me that some vitamines would bring organs to sleep. Although he can be right anyway about Vitamin C; on which he had seen the case that it could bring the adrenal glands to sleep; it showed up that my own health came at risk. You might know that I am suffering from bipolar disorder and that I found a remedy using food-supplements to stay stable without regular medication for 2 years. But stopping these supplements in March 2004 caused me to get a manic episode at the end of July 2004 once again - maybe the ultimate proof that the supplements did their job well during the 2 years I was without common medicine. Another reason for me te get manic was that I realised my youngest daughter is handicapped - and so there were around 14 reasons to turn myself mad.

On the manic episode they treated me with conventional medicine to bring my energy to normal levels once again. Now they say I have to take them forever, but that won't be the case. I already started the supplements next to the medication to be able to function normally - and now I am waiting for the moment to stop the medication, but the psychiatrists already brain-washed my family that it is very important for me to use this medication. With this medication life is so flat, that it is hard to laugh and to cry - it is absolutely awful.

Ever since february 2005 I stopped any medication except my own supplements. With help of the osteopath I feel very well. It is now one year further and I like the way my website has changed and how it might help you as well...

As a story:

After a normal youth, I had my first manic episode at the age of 16. Later, after I was out on my own, the manic episodes began again. I believe that when I was still living with my parents they helped me by making me go to bed and get regular sleep.

I was diagnosed by my doctor as being schizophrenic. Eventually, I was put on lithium and I felt somewhat well on it because the manic episodes seemed to stop.

Then, after the birth of my first daughter, I began having manic episodes again. My confidence in the lithium was lowered because the medicine that was supposed to be protecting me from manic episodes now seemed to cause them! I kept taking the medicine but felt I had a lack of alternatives.

In the year 2000 I began to get halfway to a recovery because I started taking natural food supplements. I discovered this after reading Dr. Rath's book, Why Animals Don't Get Heart Attacks But People Do. For instance, the book mentions people taking diuretics (water pills), and then losing vitamins and minerals they need to prevent heart attacks as a result of the pills. But I did keep taking the lithium, and the food supplements made it easier to do so.

In 2002 I stopped taking the lithium. Everything felt better and I was able to get goose bumps from listening to music, something which I did not feel at all during 5 years of taking lithium. I did have to start taking it again later, after I began to have manic episodes when I had to stay up at night caring for my sick daughter.

But soon after, I read an article about Omega-3 fatty acids being very important to people with bipolar disorder. With that I started taking 3 grams of fish oil a day. Having that new fuel to my brain, I found I did not get a manic episode at all!

After this, I stopped taking lithium again in April, 2002. I kept confident that I would not get manic at all.

My second child was expected in June, and I was sure I would not get manic at all and that I would be able to feel every emotion that should be felt by a father who loves his children.

In May I had my first visit with a homeopathic doctor which was very successful. He believed my story about fish oils, and even put me on flax oil, an even better source of fatty acids. I felt for the first time that I was being taken seriously by a doctor. He also prescribed Carcino Sinum 100k twice a week, two granules. A week after I started taking this things started to go a lot better because I didn't care about things so seriously the way I did before. It was a very good and natural feeling.

I told my psychiatrist I had finally stopped taking the lithium. He said he had to respect my choice although he did not understand!

Then in June, our second child was born. There was no trouble at all with the birth as far as my having manic episodes! I was really beginning to enjoy it! My wife even noticed that we had less disputes and that everything with me seemed to go easier!

Now it is autumn of 2002. Normally I can get in trouble in autumn, but this year the trouble stays away and I still feel as normal as I did in the summer when the baby was born! I am now taking the homeopathic substance Carcino Sinum 200k every week, and soon it will be Carcino Sinum MK every two weeks. It is simply great how I feel and behave. I sleep well - and that is the most important thing for somebody who is affected with mental health trouble. I am so happy I took this step. My brain is reaching its full power again and on normal fuel!

The reasons I could stop the lithium are two-fold. First, the Omega-3 fatty acids (1 gram, 3 times a day), which take away one of the causes of bipolar disorder. This was taken along with an amino acid complex and vitamin B-complex, 100 mg, taken in the evening before bed. Then I followed this with a good multi-vitamin with amino acids in the morning. The Omega-3 fatty acids just feel like the right fuel for my brain.

The second reason is that I visited a homeopathic doctor who prescribed something that made it easier for me to just "let things be the way they are."

In the end, I have gotten back my emotions without taking lithium at all.