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Posted by yellowhat on June 16, 2006, at 11:33:36
I've been an extremely rapid cycling bipolar since I was a teenager and am now 31 years old. I quit medication once at 25 and functioned pretty well until I was about 27 when I was put on more and much stronger medication. As was pretty much the case the first time, my thinking became hazy and I became stoopid. I didn't even get Will & Grace, people, and that humor is pretty darned basic.
When I got off of medication the second time, it was really rough-going-- I talked about it on this forum. 6 months later I went to see a naturopathic doctor who started me on homeopathy. I've been on it for a year and half now, and I'm not saying it's without its ups and downs, but I am more functional than I've been in my entire life, I'm sharp and creative, I'm capable in ways I've not been as an adult.
Whether or not you understand or agree with homeopathy's premise, it works. I didn't necessarily believe in or understand it at first, either, but it had an effect nonetheless.
I was extremely sick, people. Death's door kind of stuff. It takes months to notice the fact that you're actually healing and not just swallowing emotional painkillers and continuing to play on a bum emotional leg, which is all psychiatric meds do, really. Supplementing with vitamins and a little 5thp is a great idea, too, and any accredited naturopathic doctor will suggest vitamins and nutritional guidance.
It helps if you're naturally a motivated and goal-oriented person and not a common lazy American fat[*]ss, because it's about healing, which takes patience and self-love, and not about going to sleep and waking up numb inside and repressing everything. * Asterisk inserted on 6-24-06.
Posted by Kath on June 16, 2006, at 15:43:35
In reply to homeopathy!, posted by yellowhat on June 16, 2006, at 11:33:36
I've recently had very good results with a constitutional homeopathic remedy. It's helped me with a particular 'way-I-deal-with-it' situation in a way years of various therapies, counselling etc didn't help.
I can't say whether homeopathic would work for everyone. I think it depends on the skill of who is prescribing.
Glad it worked for you.
Kath
Posted by holymama on June 20, 2006, at 7:30:03
In reply to Re: homeopathy! » yellowhat, posted by Kath on June 16, 2006, at 15:43:35
I too have been fascinated with the results I have gotten from homeopathy.
I agree that it is not for the faint of heart -- it is a long, gradual process of healing (more like changing) that requires a lot of patience and a different mindset than the common western "I want relief and I want it now" idea of medicine.
I too have gone off my bipolar meds in the one year that I have been doing homeopathy. I am still having mood swings, but they are not as extreme, and I am staying functional through them, where before I was hospitalized. I have clearer thinking, energy and motivation, whcih I lost on medication.
The changes are so vague that they are hard to attribute to homeopathy, but I do think it works -- in a holistic, mind-body way. I'm glad to hear other mental -illness sufferers are finding healing with hoemopathy, and I hope to see it used more frequently with people like us. My homeopathic doctor laughs when I say how amazing it is that I can 'feel better', or 'get better' (so different from the psychiatrists, who say I might 'stabilize', but my illness will only get worse and I will need to be oon medication for the rest of my life!) -- she thinks that mental illnesses are one of the 'easier' things to treat with homeopathy!!!
Posted by Toph on June 23, 2006, at 19:38:37
In reply to homeopathy!, posted by yellowhat on June 16, 2006, at 11:33:36
I bet that self-love comes in handy yh.
Posted by gardenergirl on June 24, 2006, at 16:02:58
In reply to homeopathy!, posted by yellowhat on June 16, 2006, at 11:33:36
> a common lazy American fat*ss
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Posted by teejay on June 24, 2006, at 20:48:25
In reply to Please be civil » yellowhat, posted by gardenergirl on June 24, 2006, at 16:02:58
Hi GG,
I'm not convinced you handled that too well.
Yellowhat was clearly not referring to others with the remark, but clearly him/herself.
I'm english, over 40 and with diminishing hair, so If I refer to myself as an aging bald limey, clearly I'm causing nobody offence am I?
Not gonna make an issue over ot as YH edited the post but I do think you was just a bit quick on the button there :-)))
Posted by teejay on June 24, 2006, at 20:49:44
In reply to homeopathy!, posted by yellowhat on June 16, 2006, at 11:33:36
"I didn't even get Will & Grace,"
Thats ok, 60 million of us Brits didnt get it either so you are in good company ;-)))))
Posted by gardenergirl on June 25, 2006, at 0:47:54
In reply to Re: Please be civil, posted by teejay on June 24, 2006, at 20:48:25
Hi teejay,
You can find my reply on admin at http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20060622/msgs/661189.htmlThanks,
gg
Posted by Dr. Bob on June 25, 2006, at 21:26:29
In reply to My reply is at Admin. » teejay, posted by gardenergirl on June 25, 2006, at 0:47:54
Posted by cecilia on June 30, 2006, at 6:19:50
In reply to this often happens on this site, posted by holymama on June 28, 2006, at 13:04:49
I tried homeopathy for about a year for my depression. My homeopath was very enthusisatic and convinced she could help and month after month I tried different "remedies" each one of which she assured me was THE constitutional remedy that I needed. None ever worked in the slightest, though at least no side effects, hardly surprising since of course they are just sugar pills. Her failure to cure me didn't faze my homeopath in the slightest, she's since written a book on the miracles of homeopathy for mental health. The placebo effect is a powerful force, but didn't do the trick for me. Cecilia
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