Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Bipolar Disorder (Manic Depression)
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, affects 5.7 million American adults annually. It manifests as serious cycles of depression and mania. In the depressed phase, the person may be sluggish, sad, hopeless, and withdrawn. In the manic phase, the person swings to the opposite extreme: hyperactive, energetic, impatient, easily distracted, and "too busy" to sleep. Bipolar disorder usually develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. It is a chronic, recurrent condition that often goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed for years. |
Jack Challem
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 The Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar disorder and manic depression are the same mood disorder. manic depression is still an apt description, but psychiatrists now use the term bipolar to describe the same symptoms. Bipolar disorder is generally characterized by alternating episodes of extreme emotional lows (depression) and abnormal mood elevations (mania). The mania can be so intense that people seem to be high or acting like maniacs. Each up or down episode typically lasts from one week to several weeks. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 The field associated with this Star also appears energetically correlated to a range of diverse physical and emotional conditions that include manic depression, bipolar disorder, hypersensitivity to light and sound, glaucoma, hernia, and migraines.
ENERGETIC STAR 2: MEMORY IMPRINTER
According to conventional biology, you wouldn't think of memory as either a metabolic pathway or a survival mechanism for the body, but in bioenergetics memory means patterns of information, and the body depends on this systemic, bodywide memory to perform at all levels of functioning. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 Low blood levels of melatonin have been implicated in patients with manic depression and schizophrenia; in these cases, restoring the person to normal nighttime levels of melatonin may be helpful.17 Stress and the adrenal hormone Cortisol, which is associated with stress, may have been contributing factors in reducing the patients' amounts of melatonin.
The pineal gland isn't the only gland functioning during sleep. |
E. D. Hirsch
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 In psychological terms, mania is wild activity associated with manic depression. fa A "mania" in popular terms is an intense enthusiasm or craze. manic depression A psychosis marked by sharp swings of mood between excitement and exhilaration on the one hand, and deep depression on the other. manic-depressive A person suffering from manic depression. Manic-depressive is also a descriptive term for conditions associated with manic depression. masochism (MAS-uh-kiz-uhm) Abnormal behavior characterized by deriving sexual gratification from being subjected to pain. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 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. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 After devouring the few books I could find and talking to fellow sufferers, I learned that hypoglycemia is a baffling, misunderstood, much-maligned medical condition that can produce more than 100 debilitating ailments, including manic depression, migraines, crying sprees, and even suicidal impulses. (I would have learned about low blood sugar on the Internet, but this was 1998, and the Web didn't have nearly as much information as it does now. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
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| In psychological terms, mania is wild activity associated with manic depression. fa A "mania" in popular terms is an intense enthusiasm or craze. manic depression (man-ik) A psychosis marked by sharp swings of mood between excitement and exhilaration on the one hand, and deep depression on the other. manic-depressive A person suffering from manic depression. Manic-depressive is also a descriptive term for conditions associated with manic depression. masochism (mas-uh-kiz-uhm) Abnormal behavior characterized by deriving sexual gratification from being subjected to pain. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 His grandmother on his father's side was diagnosed with manic depression, while his aunt on his mother's side was institutionalized with schizophrenia and she died at an early age. Beyond this, neither the medical community nor the educational system had recognized any of his subtle, early pre-episode signals.
During his senior year of high school, his ability to concentrate, express thoughts, and execute what for many would be considered simple tasks were becoming extremely limited. He gave up his part-time job so that he could focus more on his school work and athletic endeavors. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Side effects include high blood pressure, stomach ulcers with possible perforation of the stomach wall (this is how my father died), cramps and dizziness, inhibited growth in children within six weeks of taken the drugs, irregular menstruation, weakening of muscular strength, slowed healing of wounds, vision problems, skin atrophy, allergic shock, loss of libido, decrease in bone density, manic depression, and the emergence of latent diabetes. Steroids are now handed out, even for babies, at the first sign of inflammation of any kind. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Cousens: Now, I wrote a book called Depression Free for Life, and my result with natural healing and off medication is 90 percent, and that's for the treatment of depression and manic depression. manic depression, maybe 80 percent, but 90 percent for depression and that includes psychotic depression. That's the place where I have an opinion, but the rest of the time – basically, let's say, unless a person is really taking some medication that it's very, very dangerous to take them off of – I'm going to get them off most of the medication because they're naturally going to get healthy. |
Melody Petersen
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 One of the biggest potential groups of customers was those who suffered from manic depression.
The executives vowed to sell Neurontin as a treatment for these other conditions, even though the scientific evidence supporting such prescriptions consisted of little more than rumor or anecdotal reports written by physicians who had been paid by Parke-Davis. The executives agreed to follow their plan even though it violated both the law and the basic ethics at the core of science and medicine.
They laid out the details of their strategy in memorandums and written financial analyses. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Cousens: Now, I wrote a book called Depression Free for Life, and my result with natural healing and off medication is 90 percent, and that's for the treatment of depression and manic depression. manic depression, maybe 80 percent, but 90 percent for depression and that includes psychotic depression. That's the place where I have an opinion, but the rest of the time – basically, let's say, unless a person is really taking some medication that it's very, very dangerous to take them off of – I'm going to get them off most of the medication because they're naturally going to get healthy. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| The major concern is that excessive levels of vanadium have been suggested to be a factor in manic depression, as increased levels of vanadium are found in hair samples from manic patients, and these values fall towards normal levels with recovery. Vanadium, as the vanadate ion, is a strong inhibitor of the sodium-potassium pump. Lithium, the drug of choice for manic depression, has been reported to reduce this inhibition, too.
There is no established RDA for vanadium and no consistent recommendation for the vanadium content of the diet. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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| They end up saying that these kids have manic depression. So if your child gets manic on Prozac, instead of being told, 'Hey, I'm sorry, we gave your child a drug that induced mania,' the parents are going to be lied to and told that the child's disorder just happened to come out now. We won't even stop the Prozac. We may increase the Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa or the Paxil, these knock-off Prozac drugs. We'll increase it and we will give the child Lithium or Depicot or something else. In my clinical practice, I see kids on three and four drugs by the time they are 12. |
| Tell your doctor if you have ever been told you had Bipolar Disorder ("Manic Depression") or have had a "manic" or "psychotic" episode.
WHAT ARE POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS OF PROZAC?
Some people experience side effects like nausea, difficulty sleeping, drowsiness, anxiety, nervousness, weakness, loss of appetite, tremors, dry mouth, sweating, decreased sex drive, impotence, or yawning. Most of these tend to go away within a few weeks of starting treatment and, in most cases, aren't serious enough to cause people to stop taking PROZAC.
PROZAC can cause changes in sexual desire or satisfaction. |
| 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. |
| Stoll says, "some of these peptides have been found to be identical to certain brain hormones (endorphins) that are associated with panic attacks, depression, manic depression, schizophrenia and other conditions. In these cases—with more certain to be discovered—there is no need for the immune system to be involved; the effect is direct. The two first examples to be discovered were peptides from imperfectly digested casein (milk protein) and gluten (wheat protein). Of course, these are two of the most commonly eaten foods in our culture! |
Jay Joseph
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 In their reference list, however, they cited no schizophrenia or manic depression twin studies. These studies were far from "sophisticated," and their often crude biases and methodological problems prompted schizophrenia twin researchers in the 1960s to make many improvements in their work (see Chapter 6). Moreover, no one discovered the "genetic roots" of schizophrenia and manic depression "in the early part of the 20th century," although many at the time helieveci that they had. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 It was an erroneous idea but one that led to various methods of inducing convulsions in hopes of curing schizophrenia, manic depression and other disorders.
In the 16th century a Swiss physician reportedly gave camphor by mouth "to cure lunacy."34 During the 18th century Austrian physician Leopold von Auenbrugger administered small amounts of camphor every two hours to patients with mania to induce convulsions and overcome the manic disability. |
Jacky Law
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 Having developed manic depression in his second year at university, he was put on antipsychotic and antideptessive medication that singularly didn't work. He put on five stone in weight, which made him more depressed, and eventually he left university without getting a degree, compounding his problems further. When he started to believe the radio was talking to him, he sought further help. 'Within the space of ten days I was sectioned, then released, then detained again three times,' he told Lucy Mayhew, writing for the Guardian. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 A study was carried out at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, based on giving people who suffered from manic depression higher levels of vitamin and mineral supplementation. Their findings were astonishing. For those who completed the minimum six-month open trial, symptom reduction ranged from 55 percent to 66 percent, and their need for the appropriate prescription antidepressant medications decreased by more than 50 percent. In some cases, the supplement replaced antidepressant medications and the patients remained well. |
Jacky Law
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| Diagnosing mental illness is difficult; what appears to be depression to one psychiatrist might be diagnosed by another as schizophrenia, manic depression, or just ordinary grief. Therapists disagree, to put it mildly, over how a given disorder should be defined and even over what should be considered a disorder.3
These differences prompted the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to publish the first volume of its bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (commonly known as the DSM), in 1952. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| But again it's not just people who work with chemicals who are in the firing line, as the simple act of self-medication with an insect repellent solvent commonly known as DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) can trigger manic depression.
Many prescription drugs made of synthetic chemicals are known to cause imbalances in the brain's happy hormones. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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| Many were using metrazol for manic depression while continuing the use of insulin therapy for schizophrenia.
Modern Medical Treatment: ECT
Few of my students have ever heard of insulin or metrazol therapy before they take their first psychology course. However, another shock therapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), is more likely to be in their knowledge base. Insulin therapy's convulsions were believed to be so effective in restoring good mental health that any means of inducing convulsions was likely to be explored. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We see kids with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, people with manic depression and people who are bipolar. What is bipolar? It's too much of one thing and not enough of another. It's a state of imbalance, because they are what they are eating, and they're eating imbalanced foods -- high-glycemic foods, in many cases -- and foods that lack nutritional balance and the essential minerals that should be found in foods.
If you eat processed, manufactured and artificial foods, then guess what? You are also processed, artificial and lacking in clarity. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Lithium, the drug of choice for manic depression, has been reported to reduce this inhibition, too.
There is no established RDA for vanadium and no consistent recommendation for the vanadium content of the diet. Although the following list shows the vanadium content of some selected foods, it is not known how meaningful these data are, as some studies have shown that most ingested vanadium (greater than 95 percent) is not absorbed. |
E. D. Hirsch
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| A "mania" in popular terms is an intense enthusiasm or craze. manic depression A psychosis marked by sharp swings of mood between excitement and exhilaration on the one hand, and deep depression on the other. manic-depressive A person suffering from manic depression. Manic-depressive is also a descriptive term for conditions associated with manic depression. masochism (MAS-uh-kiz-uhm) Abnormal behavior characterized by deriving sexual gratification from being subjected to pain. More loosely, masochism refers to deriving any pleasure from experiencing pain. {Compare sadism. |
Jay Joseph
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| Moreover, no one discovered the "genetic roots" of schizophrenia and manic depression "in the early part of the 20th century," although many at the time helieveci that they had. There were only a handful of family studies that were carried out nonblinded by fanatical racial hygienists such as Kallmann and Ernst Rudin.4 Today, unlike Kallmann in 1953, most genetic researchers would concede that even the most perfectly performed family study cannot disentangle possible genetic and environmental influences on psychopathology. |
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