Hi,
I wanted to send out a quick message about some criticism that I have been getting concerning my message
I sent out the other day about my new resource:
“Everything You Need To Know About Bipolar M.edications (That Your Doctor May Not Have Told You).”
Located at:
https://www.bipolarsupporter.com/specialoffer/knowaboutbpmeds/
IMPORTANT NOTE
I put a “.” in the word “m.edications” so hopefully the word doesn’t cause it to be sent to junk mail.
I have gotten several people that talk about how one could use natural herbs for bipolar disorder.
I want to warn you about this.
It’s a HUGE potential mistake.
They think they can go off their medication and just take one of these “natural cures” or herbal supplements INSTEAD OF their bipolar medications, so they go off their medicaiton.
People who get off their m.edication, wind up potentially harming themselves and others, and even possibly killing themselves.
You might think I am being extreme.
But I’m not!
There are so many stories of people I have talked to myself who have told me of the times they’ve gone off their medications and hurt their very own families, even though that’s the LAST thing they would ever do, normally!
People have written me emails asking to be taken off my mailing list because their loved one COMMITTED SUICIDE because they went off their medications.
I’ve read so many headlines (and I know you have too, if you read my bipolar news on bipolarcentral.com) that talk about the violence, and even MURDER that people who go off their bipolar medication commit.
If you think I’m scaring you, well just think how scared I was when I talked to people, got those emails, and read the headlines for myself!
If I didn’t know better, even I would have thought I was making this stuff up but, unfortunately, I know I’m not. It’s the TRUTH!
Just look at the statistics – Even national organizations, like NIMH (National Institute on Mental Health) will
tell you that 20% of people that don’t take medication for bipolar disorder, or go off their bipolar medications, will KILL themselves!
That’s 1 in 5 people.
Now, I don’t know about you, but that definitely scares me!
Believe me, I don’t want an email from you telling me to take you off my list because your loved one killed themselves because they went off their bipolar medications.
I don’t want you to suffer like these other people I’ve talked to because their loved one wouldn’t take their medication and got violent and did horrible things.
I don’t want your loved one to do any number of things that they are 100% capable of doing without being on their medication!
That’s why it is SO important that you get my new resource:
“Everything You Need To Know About Bipolar
M.edications (That Your Doctor May Not Have Told You).”
Located at:
https://www.bipolarsupporter.com/specialoffer/knowaboutbpmeds/
David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide “Bipolar Disorder—The REAL Silent Killer.” Click Here to get FREE Information sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.
Not taking medications? It takes a few kicks at the can and you get sicker and sicker each time for longer each time. Eventually you’ll learn that you don’t stop taking your meds without talking to some one ie your doc before you stop or drop it down a bit.Took me a few times to learn this tough lesson.
Sometimes the meds are way too much havoc on your body and the more you keep taking the meds the sicker you get. I stay away from combining this and that where 1 drug is combatting the side effects caused by the first or second drug. The side effects of drugs can be toxic!
Who doesn’t want to be med free and living a productive life just taking a vitamin like true hope or b vitamin shots.
Dear David:
Three and a half years after my initial diagnosis, there are several things that truly have kept my life manageable: working with my doctor to find a medication mix that works best for me and being committed to being on medication; consistent regular psychotherapy, extensive self study by reading 100s of books and visiting sites to understand the disorder, attending recovery groups (which are mostly filled with negative people), educating my support network and developing tools for understanding where I am at.
The two things that have helped me the most are: Bipolar Central.com. Your efforts, David, are the most down-to-earth, well communicated, intelligent, knowledgeable, tuned in knowledge around. There are many other good locations for knowledge, but you bring a certain focus and practicality that is needed. Anyone reading your reports, and then doubting their value, needs to look at themselves as being non-understanding and in denial.
The other great tool is something I found at DBSA. It was a daily mood tracker. It measured every aspect of a person’s daily experience. I created an excel spreadsheet and have kept close tabs on my daily moods. This chart has shown me a graphic presentation of where I am at, and where I am trending. A person needs to be able to see what is happening and it cannot be done just be sheer mental force. I continue to do this, but have switched to using the tools at http://www.moodchart.org. I believe all bipolar disorder people need to be using this chart for self knowledge and awareness. If I understand correctly this site or chart is in your resources.
Keep going. Don’t stop. alan
Dave;
People stop the “medication” as the “Medication” is the Disorder.
Why not use Alternate therapies. The Mainstreem is what causes the Brain Damage which in turn causes the disorder.
As I SADLY know due to over 8 Years of Experience, as a psych. VICTIUM!
ALL BP “consumers” tell me the same: “The psych. & its’ Drugs make me worse.”
I found the disorder is TOTALY Iatrogenic, Via Polypharmacy!
The Debate, Little one? Perhaps you should Take a Hike.
Allen;
If you can read, you are NOT on psych. Drugs.
I had an IQ of 190, I could NOT read on 2mg Resperidone. Yet you state to have read 100’s of Books?
Have you read The BP Advantage by Tom Wooton, or the Da-Vinci Method, by Garret La-porto? Wooton has the BP Gift, don’t know about La-Porto.
I quit the Meds,as I was terrible on them, also quit the psych. for I know them to be the disorder, that was years ago. Hence I can now read, not as I used to, due to the Medical induced Brain Damage, which is the the Disorder…..
Of the psych., By the psych., & for the psych..
Did you notice you can never leave a psych ward unless you agree with the psych.
We must ALL state: “I was very unwell when I arived… I am much better now… Thank you.” So as the psych. can record it, and have its’ many scribes write it down. Then we can leave.
This is ALL they have to keep them in a job. As their is NO medicine, or Science to back ay they do!
Her’s one, who treated Da-Vinci?
Do you know? None will answer that.
Most US Prsidents where BP…..
Alternative, I find Omega 3 Fish Oil to be good, also take Olive oil, I try to get the Omega 3,6&9. Flack Seed perhaps, for Vegans.
Excercise, especialy in the Morning, just a Walk, can be hard at times, though I found I could always ease into it. It is said we need twice as much excercise, have IQ’s on AV. 20 Points higher perhaps why the need for more Omega Fatty Acids, Brain Food. No it is Not Bigger, just like a Womans, it is wired Better. Eienstein for eg…
Their is a website. I think it is Cure depression in 3 Minutes, its an Audio thing, you listen to for 3 Minutes a Day.
Omega 3, and others also tend to lift me , I believe Sunlight is also Benificial.
Their is Snow Rose, and another Herb also from Russia, ALL Russians use it, especialy the Olympians. I used to know their scientific Names, Though due to Medicaly induced Brain Damage I know Zip.
I was given the Disorder over 8 Years ago, I still know nothing about it, I do not fit the DSM, I have very few “symptoms” of type 2. Though I was given a letter for my Dr. to, do not rember what it said, though he was to find I did not have the “Womans” varient. Their are now 6 BP’s, ALL could be “Diagnosed” with it. psych. says you have it, you have it.
Just like back in Salem… Whichunt Modern Day, descovering Decay… METALLICA.
PLEASE DAVE A DEBATE?
I done a test to see if I where BP, or otherwise. A MAP test I think it was called. Specilist program, many psych. profs. to design… Yes another GREAT waste of TAXES & Rescources.
My Dr. said it was of: “No use.”
That was it, it took an Hour or more for me to do it, 2 Hours Travel. I seen him next to descuss it. The whole discussion.
“How did I go, what was the feedback, it would find nothing as it askes nothing questions. Also on that as with all personality tests I could score what ever I want. I was honest though.”
“It was of no use. He laughed & said it is a program designed & such by psychiatrists, why would you expect it to be of any use.”
I did one on the Net. Told me Perhaps I had BP type 2. Go to the Dr. & have it Ruled out.
Wouldn’t that be yet another blow to the system, A MAN with A WOMANS disorder.
No I don’t get Cramps, PMS….. Do not have the equipment, nor a GF.
Women have told me I am a Woman traped inside a Mans Body. (I am Heterosexual, & Male).
They also say I know too much… They are fun to be with.
I have a friend who is bipolar and in the hospital right now for the 3rd time since I’ve known her due to this disorder. She was doing extremely well on her meds putting herself through college and graduating Summa Cum Laude as a single mom and then getting a teaching job. The bad news is she has no internal warning system about men, and is very easily manipulated by whatever loser comes into her life due to some unresolved father issues, and her bipolar condition. She is now allowing herself to be controlled by an alcoholic 14 years older with a criminal record for DUI, no driver’s license, no home (until he met her) who has been telling her that she doesn’t need her medication and giving her alcohol. She had an episode at her job and is now hospitalized and calling the boyfriend who is telling her she doesn’t need to listen to her mother, doesn’t belong there and doesn’t need medication. He has been interpreting her now seriously dissociated condition as “being all doped up” due to the hospitalization. In reality, she is on no meds whatsoever. Her mom had her declared a ward of the state so that some kind of medication schedule can be started. Her children are with their father and she may lose them completely as well as the house she just bought if she keeps listening to this guy. We as friends along with her family have been doing whatever we can to get her back on track. She needs to hear from more people besides her mom that this guy is wrong for her and that it is dangerous for her to be off her medication. Whether you agree with medications or not, she needs to hear from people with similar conditions that quitting cold turkey is not a good thing, and neither is this guy.