Hello friend. I read your comment and felt compelled to share my story.
I struggled with mood swings since I was 15, and I was finally diagnosed Bipolar II in college. It laid wreckage to a normal life, I ended up flunking out of semesters and never graduated. I struggled with it throughout my 20s, always feeling like I couldn't get out of my own way. Like you, I tried Lamictal, and hated the side effects.
My life changed when 7 years ago I tried what was then a novel, unproven treatment for Bipolar: the ketogenic diet. Within a few weeks my symptoms went into remission (90% reduction I'd estimate). The mood swings, the static I'd feel in my brain -- everything calmed down. I broke down in tears with my girlfriend... what could the last 15 years have been like with this?
My life had a complete turnaround. Relationships improved. My career took off. I haven't looked back. And 7 years later, this is no longer and unproven treatment. Just yesterday Stanford published their new study after years of research led by Dr. Shebani Sethi (who coined the new term "metabolic psychiatry"). Here's the link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
Harvard and McLean hospital are working on another study, led by Dr. Chris Palmer (his book "Brain Energy" is a must-read). The research is being funded by the Baszucki Group (David is Founder/CEO of Roblox), since it saved/changed their son Matt's life, putting his BiPolar I into remission. Check out their site http://metabolicmind.org.
Is Bipolar incurable, chronic and life-long? That's what everybody says. But my story and many others proves otherwise. My psychiatrist says I no longer meet the criteria for Bipolar. Am I cured? Not really -- if I get out of ketosis, the symptoms eventually come back. But that's a price I'm very willing to pay.
I hope this is helpful. I highly recommend you do your own research, and try it out.
Metabolic psychiatry is part of a new paradigm of frontier mental health solutions. I believe in them so much that I started a new venture to help accelerate its adoption in mainstream medicine.
Fun fact -- the shelters in Montana shown on alpinesurvival.com are from a new-age survivalist cult (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Universal_and_Triumphant...). I know this because I grew up in it, and actually lived on the street shown in the photo. Everybody sunk their life savings into them and racked up the credit card debt in the late 80s. Yes, connected to the cold war, but for larger "karmic" reasons of course. You should thank them though, it was only through their prayers that nuclear war was averted! Needless to say, most people didn't believe that, and membership collapsed after the Berlin Wall fell. The shelter at CUT's headquarters reportedly was able to have hundreds of people live for decades, and was the largest private shelter in the US. A whole new level of crazy, folks.
Excellent. I'm happy to support one of my favorite services. Instapaper is one of the few apps (on iPad for me) that have actually improved the quality of my daily life -- how often can you say that about an app?
Specifically, it's retraining my brain to slow down, go deeper, and think critically.
My only concern would be rewarding the content producer, because I often skip the web page all together.
Perhaps integrating Flattr's API for those domains that have it set up?
I struggled with mood swings since I was 15, and I was finally diagnosed Bipolar II in college. It laid wreckage to a normal life, I ended up flunking out of semesters and never graduated. I struggled with it throughout my 20s, always feeling like I couldn't get out of my own way. Like you, I tried Lamictal, and hated the side effects.
My life changed when 7 years ago I tried what was then a novel, unproven treatment for Bipolar: the ketogenic diet. Within a few weeks my symptoms went into remission (90% reduction I'd estimate). The mood swings, the static I'd feel in my brain -- everything calmed down. I broke down in tears with my girlfriend... what could the last 15 years have been like with this?
My life had a complete turnaround. Relationships improved. My career took off. I haven't looked back. And 7 years later, this is no longer and unproven treatment. Just yesterday Stanford published their new study after years of research led by Dr. Shebani Sethi (who coined the new term "metabolic psychiatry"). Here's the link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
Another great recent piece: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/27/1227062...
Harvard and McLean hospital are working on another study, led by Dr. Chris Palmer (his book "Brain Energy" is a must-read). The research is being funded by the Baszucki Group (David is Founder/CEO of Roblox), since it saved/changed their son Matt's life, putting his BiPolar I into remission. Check out their site http://metabolicmind.org.
Is Bipolar incurable, chronic and life-long? That's what everybody says. But my story and many others proves otherwise. My psychiatrist says I no longer meet the criteria for Bipolar. Am I cured? Not really -- if I get out of ketosis, the symptoms eventually come back. But that's a price I'm very willing to pay.
I hope this is helpful. I highly recommend you do your own research, and try it out.
Metabolic psychiatry is part of a new paradigm of frontier mental health solutions. I believe in them so much that I started a new venture to help accelerate its adoption in mainstream medicine.