longterm mental health management
longterm mental health management
ur take?
Last edited by Stahlmann on Fri Feb 21, 2020 8:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Gilberto de Piento
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Re: longterm bipolar management
Get treatment from a good psych team, including meds and therapy.
No caffeine, no alcohol, no weed, no other recreational drugs.
Get on a diet that minimizes swings in energy, probably low carb. Eat at consistent times. Don't get hungry.
Get enough sleep. Sleep consistently, not 4 hours one night and 12 the next.. If you are "up" and can't sleep use melatonin, etc for help.
Try to minimize stresses that will set off an up or down swing.
Pay attention to what sets off swings and minimize.
Find support and use it.
If there is a problem in your life making you depressed try to fix it rather than living with it or treating the symptoms.
I didn't watch the videos. Look around online, there are resources for this issue but make sure they are legitimate.
No caffeine, no alcohol, no weed, no other recreational drugs.
Get on a diet that minimizes swings in energy, probably low carb. Eat at consistent times. Don't get hungry.
Get enough sleep. Sleep consistently, not 4 hours one night and 12 the next.. If you are "up" and can't sleep use melatonin, etc for help.
Try to minimize stresses that will set off an up or down swing.
Pay attention to what sets off swings and minimize.
Find support and use it.
If there is a problem in your life making you depressed try to fix it rather than living with it or treating the symptoms.
I didn't watch the videos. Look around online, there are resources for this issue but make sure they are legitimate.
Re: longterm bipolar management
+1 for above.
I want to understand you better. How can we talk more intimately? PM me if you want.
I want to understand you better. How can we talk more intimately? PM me if you want.
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Gilberto de Piento
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Re: longterm bipolar management
Also, I think there is a long thread on here somewhere where people make suggestions to tophatfox about depression. There might be some ideas there.
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naturelover
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Re: longterm bipolar management
The point on caffeine is interesting. I wonder if all other variables are controlled if that would still make a difference.
Re: longterm bipolar management
DBT - Dialectical behavior therapy
An ex who has been diagnosed as depressed, bipolar, borderline etc; at various times by various professionals through her life seemed benefit greatly from this with out use of drugs.
An ex who has been diagnosed as depressed, bipolar, borderline etc; at various times by various professionals through her life seemed benefit greatly from this with out use of drugs.
Re: longterm bipolar management
hmm
Last edited by Stahlmann on Mon Jun 01, 2020 1:39 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: longterm bipolar management
Not worth the cost.Gilberto de Piento wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2020 5:08 pmGet treatment from a good psych team, including meds and therapy.
Eat only when hungry.. Don't get hungry
Duration of sleep is irrelevant. Intensity of sleep is paramount. Wakefulness, sleeping, deep sleep and dream state occur in cycles in accordance with your body's internal biological clock ( kept by the amygdala?) and not by the alarm which is only an interrupt.Get enough sleep. Sleep consistently, not 4 hours one night and 12 the next.. If you are "up" and can't sleep use melatonin, etc for help.