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I "accidentally" discovered fish oil helped my bipolar immeasurably when I started taking it as a natural alternative to surgery for my wrist. They never did decide whether it was peripheral neuropathy from an OLD injury, or if it was carpal tunnel, but they didn't hesitate to recommend surgery.... Read more »

Our son was born with a blood disorder called spherocytosis and had his spleen removed at age three. All was well and he had to take folic acid for years. At age 20 he was misdiagnosed as having bipolar disorder. This diagnosis came after he had suffered something quite... Read more »

I don't know where to begin. I guess I can say that I was diagnosed with Bipolar I and assorted other things at the age of 27. However, due to a misdiagnosis it should have been much earlier. Ever since I can remember I have had depression at the... Read more »

I am the mother of an 11-year-old boy, Lucas, who since birth has shown some symptoms of mental illness. Lucas was always an incredibly active baby who never seemed to need much sleep and literally ran from place to place. At five years old Lucas entered kindergarten, and it... Read more »

I have travelled a long and torturous journey before I discovered the light. I have been prescribed a variety of psychiatric medications for a mental illness that prevented me from holding down a job. I reached the end of the road. I found that in the long term, the... Read more »

My son had congenital Lyme Disease, meaning he picked up Lyme Disease from me during pregnancy. He was diagnosed as bipolar long before the Lyme diagnosis, and on 3 psych drugs was no longer being sent home from school frequently. Months of antibiotics allowed us to lower the dosage... Read more »

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... Read more »

The following was taken from http://news.independent.co.uk For 10 years Eliza Johnston, 38, has suffered from bipolar affective disorder. For most of that time her mental illness has been so severe that she had no friends, no work ­ little human contact at all, in fact, except with her... Read more »

Mental illness is a devastating disease. The illness I had was depression, also known as bipolar affective disorder. It first presented itself as a mild depression just before my 11th birthday. The fact that it developed at the onset of puberty and the teenage years with all the emotional... Read more »

I have been labeled Bipolar II because I experienced hypomania on several antidepressants (Venlafaxine, Parnate). As I didn't have a proper "manic" episode until I was in my mid-40s after years and years on various antidepressants (Aropax and god knows I can't remember what else) that did not work,... Read more »