I’ve been “living the bipolar lifestyle” for over a decade now, and due to my general obsession over all things factual, I’ve done lots and lots and lots of research on bipolar treatments. Lots of research on lots of psychotropic pharmaceuticals specifically, but I’ve looked at, and tried bipolar disorder treatments too. I’ve written about unusual mental illness treatments here from time to time but I decided to put together the top 5 list of bipolar / depression treatments you might not know about for HealthyPlace.
Unusual Bipolar Disorder / Depression Treatments
Included is:
- L-methylfolate: A Burbled Article – L-methylfolate as Antidepressant Enhancing Agent
- Omega-3: My Burble Article – Diet and Depression / Bipolar
- Calcium Channel Blockers – Burblicious – Anticonvulsants as Calcium Antagonists in Mood Stabilization
- Thyroid Hormones – I was on Levoxyl, oddly I didn’t write about it.
- Light Therapy – somehow I can’t find anything on this either. Which is weird, because I actually like this one.
It’s probably that I just didn’t get the chance to write about the last two. Sometimes I really mean to say something but I don’t get around to actually doing it. Anyway, you can check out the HealthyPlace article for more.
Here’s some info on light therapy:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/light-therapy/MY00195
http://www.columbia.edu/~mt12/blt.htm
Chrisa,
Thanks for the links. psycheducation.org has some great stuff too.
– Natasha
I find that light therapy is good for energy but it doesn't help my mood. I'll take what I can get though.
I totally agree with the light thearpy. When I'm not outside enough in the summer, I tend to be depressed in the winter. In the winter I'm always outside with my dogs and sometimes I hit the tanner (that bad, bad word) maybe once every couple of weeks. It really helps. And I've been taking fish oil for almost a year along with other vitamins and supplements I've read that were good for Bipolar, like the B-vitiamins.
Hope you doing OK. Midnight