Comments on: Bipolar Disorder Q&A: How Close Are We to a Bipolar Cure?

By: Ryan Angelo D. Olivers

Ryan Angelo D. Olivers — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:06:35 +0000

Craig and Ali messages are right. We must believe in God because He knows everything. Nothing is impossible with him. Let’s make our faith strong. “Fortes in Fide”. I am always praying for my girlfriend Janice. Who is suffering a psychological disorder. Let’s pray always and think positive. Soon there will be a cure for these disorders. God is good all the time.

By: Bipolar Girl

Bipolar Girl — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:36:39 +0000

I think the CDC, NIMH and NIH likes to say a lot of things and none of it comes to fruition. I don’t think they should make promises of a cure until they have one. It just gets our hopes up.

My doctor told me just before Christmas, “You will never get well. You will never recover.” Well Merry Christmas to you too.

I was so furious with my doctor. I was too shocked to say to him, “If I will never get better why am I seeing you? What is the point? Why am I bothering? This is a waste of my time!” I came home in a deep, dark depression. I crawl into bed and didn’t get out until the next day. i was so upset. I was asking him to please make we well so I can return to work and his response was, “It is hopeless. You will never work again. Your life is essentially over.” He took away all of my hope. I was holding out hope I would recover and return to my old life.

I used to have a career. I used to travel around the world and live abroad. I used to do all sorts of fun and interesting things. Bipolar has robbed me of everything. I have nothing, absolutely nothing today.

By: cassus

cassus — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 07:46:55 +0000

I kind of hate when people think that BPD is curable with some broccoli and a brisk walk. If that is all that’s needed to cure your BPD, then you don’t have BPD. You’re just a cranky person. There are always those people who think that mood disorders stem from some trauma in their youth, but this is bullcrap. I’m aware that a lot of people suffer from issues mentally because of troubles in their past, but BPD is not one of those disorders. Anxiety and depression are often times the ones that are directly caused by turmoil during your early years.People look at pharma as the big evil, but pharma is nothing compared to people who see mental illness as something curable with raw vegetables and meditation. Just hurts when people view BPD in that manner. Shameful is what it is.
FYI I am a vegetarian(7 years), and it does nothing for my BPD. Does help my IBS quite a lot, though.

By: Candida Fink

Candida Fink — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:45:35 +0000

Hugh - It is good to hear that you have had a positive response to Truehope. Unfortunately the science that supports it as a therapeutic option for most people with bipolar disorder has been thoroughly debunked – it is bad science. According to Truehope, on its website, "a large, multi-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled study on EMPowerplus is currently underway in Canada and the United States." If that’s true and the study is performed properly by reliable researchers and the results show that EMPower is effective, I might reconsider, but right now, the research referenced on Truehope’s website in no way shows that EMPowerplus or any of Truehope’s other products is nearly as effective as available medications. And, as it encourages people to stop all their regular medications ("Psychiatric medications should be gradually tapered off when using EMPowerplus."), it carries enormous risks for those with bipolar disorder, a serious medical condition that requires comrehensive care – of which medication is one important component. I had a patient in the past follow Truehope’s advice, and the results were disastrous. While the standard medical options are not yet optimal for everyone, the answer is not to just ignore all of the medical science and leap to unproven and risky approaches. I am a big supporter of comprehensive care – and of non-medical interventions including a variety of supplements that may be helpful as part of the treatment program (see my post "Alternative and Complementary Treatments for Bipolar Disorder"). But anything that presents the options as "all or none" – either medicine or an alternative treatment program – will be high risk for this complicated disorder. Note that the label on the EMPowerplus bottle clearly states the following: "Suggested Use: For general health, take 4 capsules twice per day with food." This probably means that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will not allow Truehope to advertise the product as an effective treatment for bipolar or any other brain disorder.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:02:09 +0000

I was bipolar until I got help from Truehope ….which is a high dose of vitamins and minerals plus I take 4000mg of Niacin no-flush to prevent manic episodes and it works for 90% of people who follow orthomulecular diet by Abram Hoffer Psychiatrists who proved in 1954 that schizophrenia and manic episodes 90% can be cured by changing there diet no sugar no wheat no dairy and high doses of vitamins

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:12:17 +0000

There have been studies on the association with genetics and nutrition, the studies have found proper nutrition turns on or off certain genes. In example is an obese person associated with unhealthy nutrition. If nutrition is considered of intake of a substance to nourish or unourish the body, then another example is the association with tobacco with cancer. Going into further detail is the association with lack of enzymes and obesity; And if enzymes play a roll in the physic of a body, then naturally the quality of nutrition tainted with pesticides, pasteurization, genetic seed patented alterations and not to forget types of sterilizing in foods that contaminate in effort to preserve; and meats are not much better with growth hormones.
All modifications in foods are in efforts to supply the demand needed to feed the population with nutrition. Modifications in food to some extent affect the body, exactly how much is hardly known. Assumingly big governments of the world have branches that take approval or disapproval what is let into the public nutrition supply. Example is soda, with high fructose corn syrup and caffeine with no health benefit, and if diet soda is any better then a common ingredient named aspartame is no better. It is in just about anything associated with diet foods. The FDA did not approve of aspartame for many years, why you might ask is up to you to find out. One hint is rat brains, and something else referred to as serotonin that is linked to mental disorders. Another thing called cancer half a million people die from each year in the United States. Taking in consideration aspartame has been approved, then that means the laws have been bent in its favor; now if the rules were bent for aspartame then can you imagine what else is going on.
Laws can be bent for food then it is a given they have and are bent for medications. How far they are bent is how much the greater good is. Whatever that may be, unfortunately that is where money comes into play. If the greater good is to keep a big pharma facility afloat to make a better product, then a little exaggeration of health benefits must be acceptable, since allot if not most medications warn of at least one or more health side affects. Just for the “greater good” according to any company making a product to help an illness, if taking something that is bad for you is actually overall good.
If environmental factor then the study of mental stunt growth in a hostile environment fits right in; ultimately an environment is strongly associated with parenting, whether it is parents ability to separate or not from a hostile environment or the parents themselves being hostile.

By: Joe Kraynak

Joe Kraynak — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:13:43 +0000

Eric–

How are you wrong? Let me count the ways:

1. Bipolar disorder develops from both nature and nurture — a genetic vulnerability combined with environmental stressors. Scientists are getting closer to identifying the genes involved.

2. Doctors and big pharma do not demonize people. They try to help them. You may not agree with their methods, but I have never witnessed any evidence of them demonizing people who have a mental illness. That wouldn’t even make good business sense.

3. Proper coping skills and nutrition may help a little, but they’re usually woefully inadequate in and of themselves in maintaining mood stability.

Get thee to a library, man! It’ll do you and your girlfriend a world of good.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:11:46 +0000

My girlfriend is diagnosed bipolar, I believe it is inherited by up bringing of an individual and not passed down by genetics. With proper nutrition it is not so much an illness but lack of not have been taught or have learned ways to deal with situations in a proper manner. Whether it was lack of parenting skills of the individual or traumatic experiences that interfered with the learning process, somewhere along the line something went wrong. What is sad irresponsibility of doctors and big pharma to demonize people who just need better coping skills and proper nutrition. When ever there is money involved there is always a threat of something being compromised, so any entity generating revenue “bipolar disorder” may not be very forth coming with a cure.

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By: carl

carl — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:13:33 +0000

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