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Category: Bipolar Disorder Management

Hiaguya
here is some more directed info

he evidence overwhelmingly says the same things will help someone with bi-polar disorders.
I’m sorry that there is so much here, but if you plan to read it like a book one chapter or page at a time and not try to blast through the whole thing it might be easier.

These are the easiest things you can do right now to improve your outlook going forward, if you want to then talk to your doctor about this before starting then please do, better yet print off this sheet and take it to the doctor and get their opinion on it.

If you are willing to try some more things that might (and very likely will) help facilitate the ability of your brain to heal then I have a few more ideas.
To preface that though, we have to understand that for many decades scientists and doctors did not think brain cells were capable of growth or regeneration at all. More and more research is showing that not only can brains heal but we can do things to make them heal faster. Research is also a painful thing, as the way getting funding for and completing studies and getting published on that research operates today means that many things that are effective but are not profitable to sell are not going to be studied.
We can’t Prove everything, but proof is often the last step after a long list of evidence, and evidence can come in many forms including anecdotes. So it is still helpful to look at what has promising results and works for people, even if that item has not been formally studied yet.

Most ‘drugs’ we have today are just isolated from plants, fungi or animals that have been synthesised in the lab. Asprin for instance is a tree bark isolate. These compounds, often called secondary metabolites, are what most modern pharmaceuticals are based on. In many cases when you take a natural thing like some plants of fungi you are getting ‘medicine’ it’s just in a mixed form with other natural compounds. For the asprin they used to chew that tree bark for the same effect until the compound was isolated and recreated in a lab. the moral of this story if that you can have many benefits from herbs or fungi or other things that are not profitable enough to to formal studies on or to sell synthetic versions of and we shouldn’t dismiss things because they don’t come from a pharmacy.

That said, some of these compounds can interfere with some pharmaceuticals, so you should consult with your doctors regarding potential interactions with established medication before taking these

There is a plethora of evidence for psychedelic things like magic mushrooms to help with brain disorders but if you’re not starting form a good place then I wouldn’t recommend doing that right away, certainly not without taking the d3, b vitamins, and fish oil for at least 2-4 weeks, and more to the point these drugs can allow you to face, unlock, deal with, and get past mental trauma and past event that are blocked off in your brain because they are too damaging for normal interaction. If this is the case then psychedelic assisted therapy can do wonders! to work through and begin to manage and then get past this, so you can have a life back again.
Eating an 8th of mushrooms has been alikened to a thousand hours of therapy. But it’s still a better idea to do this at a lower dose and with a guide like a trained psychiatrist to start. MDMA can help you open up emotionally in ways that are literally not possible without the assistance. I’m afraid I’m not well versed in these matters but if this sounds interesting to you then this is a promising avenue for exploration. T
he book reality switch technologies by andrew gillmore can explain in an easy way how these compounds work with your brain, their mechanism of actions. From there you can see that it allows new pathways that are made or established during a trip to become as strong as already existing pathways. This means you can have months of mental growth happen in a weekend, and then if you keep using or reinforcing those new pathways you can have them established, and quite literally re-wire your brain in a weekend.