Circadian Rhythm Chronotherapy – Experiment Check-in 2

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Nov 19, 2010

Friday, 9:00 AM

I’m still alive and ticking on the chronotherapy experiment. Still pretty tired. Dizzy. Nauseous. Feverish. Coffee’d. But still going. My friend is still here but he’s dozing in and out. It’s mostly Dexter keeping me company at the moment.

I had some moments of pretty high anxiety and panic but as long as I sit still and focus on the TV, the computer or my iPhone it seems to be OK. Quietly. The word of the moment.

I think I can stay awake until 6:00 PM. We’ll see. My brain is pretty scrambled…

Circadian Rhythm Chronotherapy – Experiment Check-in 1

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Nov 19, 2010

I’m still alive and ticking on the chronotherapy experiment. Pretty tired. Dizzy. Nauseous. Coffee’d. But still going. My friend is keeping me company and on-track. It’s early days, but so far so good…

Circadian Rhythm Chronotherapy for Depression – Experiment

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Nov 18, 2010

Today I read about a new therapy known as Triple Chronotherapy. Yes, it’s a big fancy word. Chronotherapy. Quite frankly, it sounds made up.

But it isn’t.

Chronotherapy is a combination of light therapy, prolonged wakefulness and sleep phase advance. It aims to reset the circadian rhythm to treat depression.

Unusual Bipolar / Depression Treatments

Posted by Natasha Tracy | Jul 29, 2010

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.