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Originally Posted by aelle  Re-reading this thread, there seem to be some misconception about manic depression. It is a real mental ilness, like depression (although they are two different disorders) and you can't will yourself out of it or snap out of it any more than one can snap out of schizophrenia, anorexia nervosa or autism.
Some lifestyle factors can make it better or worse (drug intake, diet, exercise, routine, sleep etc) but one cannot "just man up" and be done with depression or bipolar disorder.
Miia, you would really benefit from meeting your friend psychiatrist, if only to get educated about his disease and the best ways in which you can help him. |
Yes, as mentioned before, it could be a deficiency of omega-3 oil. If that is the case, nothing mental you do can help it. Now I know a great deal about fasting. Now if someone has not eaten in 50 days and is dying, you cannot cure it by any mental attitude. The cure is food.
Some can be depressed due to a vitamin B deficiency. This is all on the link in my first post. There is a good chance that it is a combination of things. Dr Phil likes to check for heavy metal toxicity since if it is that, then nothing that you do will help. Some can be depressed from a lack of sunlight.
Have you heard of that? It is called H.A.P.P.Y. Just kidding. It is called S.A.D. The point is that if it is one of these things then everything else you do will be a waste.
Now you can go up to a man with no legs. You can tell him that if he does not run then you are going to shoot him between the legs. Still he is not going to run. Depression is just one word but can have many causes.
Have you heard of the actor Jean Claude van Damme. He got depressed and hired an ND. The ND figured out it was because he stopped training now that he was rich. That was the cause so he hired me to do the exercise for him. Wouldn't that be nice? So he started training again and he was cured. Mark Hyman, M.D. says that studies show that exercise helps depression more than any
drugs.
Here are excerpts from the webpage that my link on my first post links to:
"I just heard Linda Hamilton talking on TV. She is an actress and the star of the Terminator movies. She said that she battled with bipolar for years but got over it with nutrition and exercise. She added that exercise is so important."
"The following is an uplifting story about a minister, Pastor Alvin Tallant. A Yahoo Search for him shows 8 websites with more information on his healing, where his church is located, etc. As a teenager he was allergic to mold, dust and pollen. In his mid-forties he had 12 surgeries over a 3 year period."
"On 12/2/94 he had his gallbladder removed. In the recovery room his blood pressure dropped to 60/40. They had severed an artery during the operation. He had to spend the next 5 days in SICU. He had 7 surgeries on his nose and sinuses, 3 surgeries on his left foot (which resulted in a bone infection), 5 surgeries on his throat for sleep apnea, surgery on both wrists and ankles for broken bones and cysts and 5 procedures over a 3 year period to crush kidney stones. He was diagnosed as being bipolar (manic depression) and had received treatment for depression many times. In 1996 he had a nervous breakdown and his psychiatrist said that he would be on heavy medication the rest of his life."
"In 2004 he was taking a drug for allergies, a drug for anxiety disorder and 3 drugs for depression. He was diagnosed with anemia and leukopenia (extremely low number of white blood cells in the blood). He had polyps removed from his colon and esophagus. His immune system was shot and his body was shutting down. He had 3 skin cancers removed from his face. In early summer 2004 his dermatologist started him on Efudex, chemotherapy in cream form that he used all over his face and head that he was supposed to use for the rest of his life. He was told to stay out of the sun."
He cured all the above and became healthy without drugs or a doctor.