Thank you for sharing that , it’s put a smile on my face :-) Depression is a loss of synaptic connections in the structures of the brain that control mood, we loose connections when our neuroplastic ability to grow and maintain connections is overwhelmed by inflammation and other destructive forces. Lithium boosts neuroplasticity and you may also have been deficient of vitamin D, magnesium, B vitamins or omega 3 oils needed to control inflammation. Stress and a poor diet are also major sources of inflammation. To prevent relapsing into depression again in the future:- Follow a supper healthy low inflammation diet, Retrain the way your brain and nervous system respond to stress, to switch off stress responses quickly and reframe stress psychology (I’m starting an online course on how to do this form Oct/Nov 2020); if necessary also have psychotherapy to remodel stressful and traumatic memories and psychology, Keep the above mentioned nutrients topped up especially during periods of change and stress, also take neuroprotective and neuroplasticity boosting remedies like lithium orotate at these times of life. Be Well

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Thank you so much for the tips! I definitely think stress plays a huge roll for me. I have added vitamin D, B12, and omega 3's so far and have see improvements! Thank you!

I have a free deep relaxation brain training exercise MP3 recording to teach your brain to switch off stress responses more quickly and efficiently to change the way your brain manages stress. To get a copy just email me for the free relaxation recording.

@@konduitkreatrix add K2 with your D3 and other fatty vitamins.

KK how much and how often do you take? Does it still help for depression?

You are a good man Renos .. I wish you and your wife health and happiness.

I was wondering how much lithium orotate she took and how she was cured from hashemotos. How much niacin did she take,for I’ve been struggling and thank you.

Well done for the successful self help treatments you’ve done :)

What diet did she do for Hashimotos? Keto?

kontod what supps n diet for hashimoto?

You're welcome, I don't believe that low-dose lithium orotate on its own is sufficient for most people with bipolar disorder to manage their condition, it certainly would not be enough for me. However, low-dose lithium orotate does deliver therapeutic effects just like regular lithium carbonate but milder and when you combine this with multiple other supplements and therapeutic techniques I believe that many people can manage their bipolar condition, and without any side effects. Managing the condition with out any drugs using only natural therapeutics is a lot more involved, you have to follow a great diet, do some brain training, perfect your sleep, sleep in total darkness, where blue blocking glasses before going to bed and take a handful of supplements with breakfast and dinner, and you have to buy the supplements out of your own pocket because no medical insurance will pay for them. But if you can manage all of that there’s a good chance you can manage your condition. Using these methods I’ve managed to stay completely drug free and symptom free for over a decade now. Even if you have to continue using lithium carbonate and or other mood stabilising drugs you could still combine the rest of the lifestyle treatments to improve your brain and condition. You could improve how effective the drugs are and perhaps the manage with a lower dosage. For some reason I still haven't really caught up since the lockdown! But I'm trying to clear the way for 2023 so I can write my book on bipolar disorder and serialise each chapters with the KZfaq video. Good luck with your healing journey :-)

I hav never seen a more informative video on Lithium orotate than this one.

​@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments please what's the for your book for bipolar

You welcome, throughout 2022 I'll be writing my book on Living Well with Bipolar Disorder and serialising the chapters into KZfaq videos, so you'll see a lot more bipolar related content.

Always include high quality Omega 3 fish oil with double the EPA to DHA for depression. I could work out a comprehensive treatment plan including the right diet and some brain training exercises to rewire his brain if we had an online consultation.

I have suffered from crippling depession so I feel for your son. It was SAD...seasonally affective disorder . I wouldnt want to get out if bed in the winter. ( in northern Canada no less...very dark in winter) 8% of people have this disorder to some degree. Try adding in certain supplements like creatine ( boosts ATP in the brain but takes a month or so of high doses) and see if the amino acid agmatine is beneficial. Use it before bed. Agmatine has been shown to cure depression in 3 days in some studies. Get your son off all suger and grains. They wreck the brain and cause massive inflammation. An inflammed brain will never heal. A ketogenic/ carnivore diet cures many mental healrh disorders including depression. It tajes about 2 to 3 minths but the results are spectaculer. Ketones are very anti inflammatory and feed the insulin resistant brain an alternate feul source. It will increase mitochondria by 400% in 3 months becuase the body will adapt to fat and ketone utilization. Brain fog will dissappear. It takes a few weeks to get fat adapted and up to 6 months to fully optimize your metabolism. Give it time. Use MCT oil and supplemental ketone salts for brain energy as you adapt and ramp up the fat burning mitochondria. I take a wide variety of supplements including lithium, omega 3's , methylated b complex, multi minerals including zinc, extra high dose B1 ( thiamine..300 mgs day for ATP and stress relief) magnesium, tri methyl glycine to boost methylation. ( most people have some form of the mthfr gene and need extra methyl doners and methylated b vits) Glycine..10 grams per day...5 before bed to aid sleep. Taurine, ( its just good for you and boosts gaba) high dose D ..10,000 ius per day. Pycnogenol, boswellia extract , ginko , curcumin , and lions mane. Lions mane will actually grow new neurons. It seems like a lot of vits and sups but its nothing compared to being depressed. Exercise is also key to rebooting the system. It will promote bdnf in the brain and result in greater autophagy than fasting for 3 days. It also boosts natural endorphins and switches on genes for self renewal. You can do a full body workout with just a few dumbells. Or just body weight alone. You might have to exercise with your son to help motivate him. Depressed people need extra coaxing. If you live in a northern climate then buy a LUX sun lamp. My depression vanished when I used a high lux sun lamp and got my vits up...especially vit D which plummets in the winter. Even a vigorous exercise session , twice per week can have miraculous results on depression but you must address nutrient deficiencies like magnesium , D, B 's omega 3s , etc and get exposed to sunlight in the morning. A lux lamp is often a good investment. I also use methylene blue...intermittantly. it helps with ATP in the brain. If I can do it anyone can do it. Keep the faith. There is hope.

I love your enthusiasm and intention but before you give specific recommendations you need to understand the health and history of the individual person. The keto diet can be a good choice for some people but people need to know that it can actually cause insulin resistance, yes cause it, that’s not a typo. If excess intramyocellular lipid builds up ( fat in muscle cells) it blocks the insulin receptors causing insulin resistance. You may not even know you have insulin resistance because you rarely test it with carbs but it’s there and every time you slip out of ketosis you really cause harm to your body and brain because you are insulin resistant. There are many versions of the keto diet that do not provide enough polyphenols or fibre and are therefore not optimal for depression treatment. Please don’t recommend the carnivore diet her. It is totally wrong for most people. Devoid of polyphenols and and fibre to develop the microbime gut-brain axis that affects neurotransmitters and butyrate with anti inflammatory and anti depressant effects. There are only a very few rare individuals with extremely compromised gut walls, excessive bacteria translocation of bacteria through their gut walls provoking their immune system and or autoimmunity conditions. As I said I appreciate your intentions, and I’m glad you found solutions to your depression, but you need training and have met the patient to fully understand the consequences of dietary advice.

@Tony Camaj okay

After studying human sciences at university I trained in naturopathic nutrition first then functional medicine Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and h host of add-on healing techniques, I also did years of different types of psychotherapies. I was on a mission fighting a battle against bipolar depression, of all the trainings, the therapy and all the other where’d and wonderful therapies I tried, it was clear most of them didn’t work on the brain and didn’t treat my bipolar. I found the only effective therapies for mental health problems were the supplements (and diet) to rebalance brain chemistry, neuroplasticity and inflammation, good psychotherapy (good luck finding a good therapist) and meditation/brain training exercises to stimulate physical rewiring of the brain. I went on to train as a meditation teacher and cognitive hypnotherapist, this mary seem to diverse but I was homing in on the therapy techniques that can treat mental health problems, almost all naturopathic/functional practitioners avoid treating mental illness, and the trainings haven’t developed techniques in the area so give you nothing. Today I only treat with the nutrition/supplement/functional techniques and brain training/meditation exercises, but I often encourage people to have therapy when it’s apparent they stressful psychology may be overacting the immune inflammatory systems and down-grading brain health.

sandpiper thats a outdated statements.. worlds changing no need to reitorate the truth

Nothing is worse than a mainstream physician, there you will find the real snake oil.

@@freedomwarrior5087 500%

Is he still doing videos? He helped me a lot through his videos.I was hoping he is well the last video was 4 yrs ago

Thank you for sharing your positive experiences using low-dose lithium orotate, that's a great result. I would also recommend experimenting with taurine, it has a calming GABA like effect (but it does not desensitise GABA receptor sites), it is mildly anti-inflammatory, it stimulates neurogenesis in the hippocampus which is the brain's primary memory centre, and is overall health for the health of the brain. Also really work on his intestinal bacteria or gut microbiota, you may be able to obtain significant further improvements by developing the health of the microbiota. Use probiotics, a diet rich in prebiotic fermentable fibres and possibly even additional prebiotic supplements. A probiotic called Primadophilus may be particularly appropriate, it contained the bacteria L Reuteri and L Rhamnosus, these bacteria produce GABA in the intestines which can travel at the vagus nerve and enter the brain. GABA is involved in calming the nervous system, learning and sleep. Having seeded these bacteria in the gut you want to feed them to get them to multiply and grow, do this with a high fibre diet including lots of beans and lentils and whole resistant starches such as, sweet potatoes, black rice and firm banana's. You can also buy the prebiotic substances that feed and grow the bacteria in the microbiota, I think there are even available in chewing gummies. He's lucky to have you as a parent :-) good luck with your healing journey…

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Thank you so much

How much do you need to take of Lithium Orotate to have this effect?

In my practice I usually recommend 5-10 mg a day, up to 20 mg if needed and rarely go up to 30 mg.

Were you ever given an MRI with Contrast? The contrast can cause myoclonic jerks. Get a 24 hr urine test from Mayo clinic to confirm

Mind if I ask what brand of lithium orotate you use? Thanks!

Can ask how long it took to see the difference.

@R. H. I'm sorry to hear that. I started with one 5mg. I also take b1, selenium, super c, b complex, and magnesium. I took up to 15 mg of the lithium orotate, after 3 weeks, I am taking only 5mg. I also cut out caffeine and my anxiety med.

@R. H. I felt relief within a day. I was not perfect but was able to keep going. I ordered the supplements on line. If you give it a try, lmk how it works for you. I will say a prayer for you.

@RahmasVisionhow did the lithium O work for you? How long it take to help?

🍃Glad you are doing better 💕

@@funeralangel8262 Thank you❤️

May I ask how much lithium orotate you take per day?

May I ask what supplements you use?

@@lasagamondays8440 I take 40 mg per day and increase it up to 100 mg when I'm manic. Here's a video I did on it.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZ2jqdt4mdiwhHk.html

Thanks for the enccouragement Darryl, good luck with your healing journey.

Ok so ok taking zoloft w this

Are u bipolar??? Which type?

@@glorias4462 no, I had some irritability/anxiety and it got improved by taking Glycine/Taurine

Thanks for sharing.

Hi, if I had Lyme disease I would definitely take lithium orotate to protect my brain from the inflammation caused by the lyme as I treated it. If you scroll down through the comments on this video there are several comments from other people about treating Lyme disease.

You are welcome, I can’t make more appropriate professionals, but l will be making more videos.

Look into Palmitoylethanolamide (PEA).

Great, glad it was helpful.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments Peter your videos are very helpful. Will you be making any more? Are you still a practitioner? I've just noticed there's been no videos or posts for a couple of years now.

Hi, I can't give you prescription advice regarding supplements and drugs unless I've taken full case history, sorry about that. But when you talk about revolving thoughts in your mind going around like a snowball effect and the only thing that helps is work, this immediately suggests to me overactivity in your default mode network. I have a video and web page on this:www.balancingbrainchemistry.co.uk/peter-smith/163/Is-an-Overactive-Default-Mode-Network-causing-your-Anxiety-and-Depression?.html The default mode network DMN is a rumination circuit that thinks about things that have gone wrong, distressing or anxious, it is supposed to switch on for a while enable us to have a good think about the problem situation but then in a healthy brain it switches off again. In anxious and depressed brains however the DMN remains switched on bombarding our cortex thinking part of our brain with depressing and anxious thoughts and feelings. There's an opposing network called the task positive network. The TPN is engaged when we are actively engaged in performing tasks in other words when you work you engaging your TPN but since you stop it sounds like the DPN ends up dominating the balance between these 2 networks. The good news is that with an intensive programme of meditation brain training you can grow and develop the TPN dampen down overactivity in the DPN and develop the switch between the 2 circuits. There are probably several meditation systems that can help you do this but I developed a meditation style which is a composite of different meditations designed to directly and efficiently activate the TPN. I'm a bit behind schedule but I was planning on starting to teach this in online classes next Sunday. I'm going to take your comment as a motivating driver to push ahead and try to make this happen. You can find information about when the classes start

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments what about the need for balancing the other trace minerals? Low dose lithium orotate with a full spectrum trace min supplement like fulvic acid (85+ trace minerals) For B complex I don't believe I can tolerate any form(methyl,non) as angst is way off. Instead I take UnDeffated liver extract

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments where should i buy lithium ortate?

I have exactly what you describe, mood depends on my anxiety state. As soon as my anxiety is lower mood is better. I was on an ssri for 15 years and quit im March 2022. After that a perfect storm occurred with a divorce and quit my dayjob and my mom almost died from covid. Now i have extreme anxiety when i wake up in the morning. It is a very nasty feeling and makes me feel desperate and very depressed. I am trying everything and just ordered lithium. All the other mentioned supplements i mostly have already. Doc you bring me hope and i am grateful for that

My medical advice is to get a second job or try harder at the gym. Good luck.

You are welcome. Lithium orotate may not be enough on its own it stabilise you so add other lifestyle and natural therapy treatments. Good luck with your healing journey

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments thank you from Canada 🇨🇦

Did it work out for you ? I take Abilify as well.

@@Leesh4you no lithium orotate didn’t end up working for me. I went back on Abilify. Thought I’d give it a try going on lithium again but just made me depressed and lazy Not good. I feel better now back on Abilify. I’ve been on 11 years

@@AP-nx6xo what dose did you try of lithium orotate?

You’re welcome, good luck with your healing journey...

Great, Is there another subject you are interested in?

I recommend a potassium rich diet for glutamate levels in the brain, work wonders

I totally agree, thanks for sharing

A high potassium diet is also very high in other nutrients including flavonoid/polyphenols

Can you diagnose bipolar by testing your lithium levels?

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments I have to add agmatine sulfate. It is absolute beautiful. You know about agmatine?

Lithium strongly stimulates neuroplasticity and sometimes the initial response to this is increased depression. The way I look at it is this is a good sign! 10 mg may be too high a dose to start with, it was for me, so I dropped down to 1 mg and built up to 5mg x 2 over 4 weeks. Keep experimenting at least you can see it’s affecting you.

Yes!!

I'm glad you like my channel. It helps my ranking if you give me a thumbs up :-) I almost always use or at least start with magnesium citrate, it's very good value for money and well absorbed, it's a good general-purpose magnesium. Some people find that it gives them loose bowels and then I might switch over to magnesium glycinate or magnesium taurate. I never use magnesium carbonate or magnesium oxide because they are not well absorbed, they are very cheap but they are not worth it. There's a super expensive type of magnesium called magnesium threonate that people claim is better absorbed into the brain but I don't think it is worth the money, because you can get perfectly good results with the citrates or glycineates. Something very important I forgot to mention in the video is that you should not take any supplements whether it's magnesium or lithium orotate when you are dehydrated, if you have not been well hydrating then start with just drinking a little bit more water increasing every day over about 5 or 6 days and then introduce very small amounts of magnesium and lithium and continue to increase the hydration and the minerals building up over about 2-3 weeks. Good luck with your treatments.

Oi Daniela, acredito que seja BR tambem. vc tem usado o orotato? tem notado algo bom? alguma diferença? abraços

You can get a great magnesium soak at livingthegoodlifenaturally.com you can hear a podcast on it from Learn True Health on your podcast app or here on youtube at Learn true health magnesium

When your body is very deficient in magnesium you can tolerate a lot more than normal. If you have a hidden infection or bacteria that use up some of your stores. Lyme disease or tooth decay. You can take 10 times the usual dose. Once i had heart palpitations every 15 seconds as i must of had some kind of infection that effected my heart so the only thing that halted it was magnesium. I was taking 500 mg of magnesium oxide. The cheap stuff every half hour counting between the palpitations. Every time it w decrease the time between them. I loaded up on it until i was able to keep them from happening about once an hr. Wich is totall relief compared to having heart palpitations every 15 seconds. Those episodes lasted for a few days until the infection settled down. I must of taken 5000 mg that day before i started running to the toilet, lol 🤣 but its worth it

I like magnesium glycinate.

Pretty much next bipolar disorder, I'll be making videos of the chapters of my up-and-coming book "Living Well with Disorder" It's great to hear that you are doing well, you can take the lithium orotate continuously as a wellness maintenance.

i am very tall so thats why i take 15

Thanks, I spend days planning, filming and editing my videos

You're welcome, let me know if there is a specific subject that interests you, I may be able to include it in the further video.

I really appreciate your gesture. This is for my mother (69 yrs).she has Bipolar for more than 35yrs yet she is not aware of this.its only us people around her who try to manage her during her severe highs and lows.from last three years she is also suffering from Radition protitis.she is a cancer survivor.she lives in India. None of the doctors ever gave her any mood stabilizer. We always look for the signs of going highs and start giving her medicine and then nothing for low.i will really appreciate any suggestions .🙏 I just ordered lithium orotate from Advanced research-Dr.Hans Nieper--120-mg.

@Gudia Mangat To improve the health of the brain is really important that you eliminate inflammation in her intestines, do this through diet and supplements.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments thanks again.

have u tried ect ? How r u now

@@nidhie3039 not yet. I'm still struggling immensely every day and every hour.

Hope u get well ...pray to god ...and indulge in somthing u can enjoy .. exercise yoga meditate...try supplement s like CBD oil ...am struggling since 6 years my cyclothymia turned into bipolar ..this head pressure is killing me making me overthink extreme sadness...everything seems worthless ...worst part is that there's no good cure medicines have side effect ...I have not yet taken professional help but I will have to ...I hope I need remission from symptoms ...depression makes u completely different person who u r not genuinely ...when I was happy I was naturally happy now I need to practice mindfulness ...to be happy but that doesn't make any difference u r still depressed ...it's worse than cancer , aids according to me ...ur brain is not ur brain anymore but I will try my best to get the real me back ...I don't have guts to suicide ...sometimes I just want to end it but I can't so I'll fight ...I will pray to god maybe he'll help ...doctors just prescribe medicines will plenty of side effects..I took two ssri for two months ..felt better but that pressure pain in head was still there and after leaving meds I felt again like before ...this disease is super serious ...in other disease u take meds u recover completely but in this everyone is not lucky for some meds don't work at all ...

@@nidhie3039 I made a long reply but it was rejected by KZfaq because I talked about suicide. I deeply appreciate you writing so clearly and tenderly. Those are words that I am unable to compose but they apply to me too. What helps me is learning of people in history who have suffered and survived or whose lives were cut short. Starting with Viktor Frankl who survived and lived to help so many others and Alan Turing. Please read their biographies or watch their films. I hope it gives you greater hope. And get professional help. I have been re-traumatized by several so-called professionals but have marginal help by one or two. If you have to go through a dozen or more doctors, then that is your path. I thought I would be healed by a doctor like any other disease. No, the mind is as mysterious as it is powerful. As deep as our depression or bipolar, that's how powerful it is to recover and use its strength for good. Throw everything you have at it aggressively. It is eleven years for me and every year has been worse. There is an unknown reason I - and you - endure this suffering that will be useful. God, doctors, food, medicine, meditation, exercise, friend and family. We have a good chance to thrive again. Imagine if we were born 100 Yeats ago. It would have been much harder. I salute those who survived without all the resources we have available to us. I will pray for you now and when I beseech God for his limitless help.

@@timboslice8194 u can chant hindu mantras daily morning...my depression was triggered in 2011 followed by a panic attack ..but I have suffered in childhood so that might be the root cause...I recovered in 2011 ..by praying to God ...but it returned In 2015 ...I was very good student but during teenage sonething bad happened and got exam phobia but somehow I have completed my education ...u should try osho meditation, Sadhguru meditation online paid or buddist meditation ..I felt better after tratak meditation and KZfaq anti depression yoga video helps ...hope we get our brains back , u should exercise daily especially running will help and I have heard certain vitamin deficiency aggravates depression so get ur vitamin D , B12 level checked sunlight exercise will help the most ,,I wanna do lots of things but due to depression I don't feel like doing anything I just end up lying on bed with my smart phone but we gotta do opposite of what depression makes us do am trying my best .. lets have faith in God .....god bless u ...

My pleasure.

I’m glad you like it, watch out for my next video, which should be in about five weeks giving an overview of the neuroscience of bipolar disorder, what are the manifestations or disturbances that we can see in bipolar bodies and brains, and how we can control these manifestations with natural self-help therapies.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments I'll give it a watch and pass it on to a friend of mine who is bipolar. As far as I can tell, he has his case under control with standard dangerous-megadose-of-Lithium protocol, but it does appear to me that lower doses of more readily absorbed Lithium might do as well or better for him. Who knows! I'll pass your future video along as brain-food for him anyway. As for myself, I have a very modest case of MS, which has resulted in some damage to the left temporal lobe, sporadically causing light seizure activity. I have been unwilling to deal with the side effects of mainstream antiepileptic meds, but LithOro seems to be helping me, so I'm gonna stick to it until further notice! Regardless: Thank you for your channel; I believe that you're helping to make the world a better place! ^‿^

Yes that's right vanadium deficiency may cause issues with blood sugar control, however it looks like at least in some people with bipolar disorder we are not short of vanadium, we have accumulated excess and this contributes to disrupting brain function and facilitating mania. If you have bipolar disorder and blood sugar dysregulation I recommend turning to other things to treat your blood sugar control systems including: supplements, intermittent fasting, eating in coordination with the timing of your central and liver clocks, exercise, having a healthy BMI and of course the right diet including the blood sugar control super foods.

For many years I did a ketogenic diet because at the time it was the best thing I knew to improve my neuroplasticity, but the high fat content caused a buildup of fat inside my muscle cells this is called intramyocellular lipids and this gave me insulin resistance/early stages of type II diabetes. I switched overnight to a plant-based diet (except for the fish oil supplement I still have to take) and it dropped my intramyocellular lipids levels so quickly that it reversed the insulin resistance/type II diabetes in five days! I was happy with this result but concerned as to what will happen to my neuroplasticity. The inherently lower levels of inflammation on the plant-based diet maintained my neuroplasticity :-) and then I increased my flavonoid/polyphenols intake with smoothies which enhanced my neuroplasticity even further. From my own personal experience and the research I've done a plant-based diet has much lower levels of inflammation and can result in superior brain health compared to even the healthy ketogenic diet and certainly than a regular non-plant-based diet.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments You might find Dr. Robert Young and his book pH Miracle of interest!👍

Thanks for sharing your experience. Encouraging and helpful to many!

I take Abilify 2 mg for bipolar for the last 11 years. It truly gives me a better quality of life Your symptoms sound like bipolar 2. Just my opinion. I was on lithium for 8 years and I regret coming off it. I can’t take it now for some reason. Just doesn’t work any more. All the best

the key is accepting and knowing that you are you who and being comfertable with that and by doing this over time you will heal yourself.. the key is being patient and not fighting yourself and resisting your own self or seeking external sources of "normal". You will see great results. Send love to yourself daily

I think it’s low GABA

Hi, I'm really glad the video makes sense to you, it took me years to discover lithium orotate because like most people all I knew about was high dose lithium carbonate. Years ago I thought lithium was evil poison now I would wear a T-shirt saying I 'heart emoji' My Lithium! I took the psychoactive herb eboga twice to heal my mind. Eboga has these profound effects on bringing up traumatic memories and memories of things that you feel guilty or ashamed of and are still disturbing your psyche in a way that you can process them and release them. I'm aware of research done whereby people took Psilocybin and then with the psilocybin active in their brain they did a therapy session to discuss their traumas and depressed/anxious feelings and belief systems. Reports are of these types of therapies being very effective even just with a single session; there's a suggestion that the drugs disrupt the re-consolidation of the memory of the experience. What routinely happens is memories and feelings come into our conscious mind and then simply reinforced and reconsolidated, with the presence of the drug disrupting normal neurological processing the idea is that the memories are not reconsolidated and stalled again in the same way. I am incredibly interested in this type of work, in using herbal/drug assisted psychotherapy, unfortunately there is hardly any research in this area; they may be research in developing new pharmaceuticals that can do this type of thing specifically for PTSD developed initially by the military but then it should have useful civilian spin-offs. Research into natural products such as psilocybin, aywashca, iboga and even LSD is likely to not be forthcoming because the substances are not patentable and some of them are illegal. I recommend people can try these therapies but it's difficult to find a way to do it in purely therapeutic context, it took me 2 years to set up my eboga experience in a therapeutic way without it being invaded by people who said they were into therapy but really just wanted to get high. These things are powerful especially if you have mental health problems, I have bipolar disorder and at the time I was struggling with suicidal depression so I was in a very different space to somebody who let's say just felt dissatisfied with life and was seeking escapism in getting high. I'm still in the process of experimenting in my practice with a new therapy which is to flood the brain with a stack of antianxiety herbs and remedies and then performing a PTSD exposure treatment; and then start to make some videos about this but no doubt I'll get slammed with some critical comments backlash. If you do experiment with any of these things do a tiny micro dose experiment to start with to make sure that you don't have an allergic reaction, monitor your heart beat. Then do a dose that is half what you intend to take for the therapy session or maybe even 1/3, and if this seems okay and you have the right supportive therapy context, and it's the right time of your life to do this, and of course you not breaking any laws (I have to say that) then you could proceed with caution and optimism :-) PS there are places in the world where you can safely and legally do these things, Holland for example; however as I say my experience was these places were inundated with alternativehigh seekers.

Thanks for the information. Very interesting and a shame that these natural things like psilocybin and ayahuasca are blocked due to conflicts with the pharmaceutical companies and not being patentable. I hope they do make it through eventually in some form, a bit like ketamine making it through approval for the UK recently!

Sependia I agree. In the mean time I decided years ago to just start experimenting and healing myself, I didn’t have the time to wait for the Phama industry.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments I understand! Thanks

Thanks for letting me know, it’s not the first time I’ve done that. The worst one was I spelt the word brains wrong! Unfortunately I don’t have the software that I used to make those text boxes anymore so I cannot edit them.

You're welcome I'm going to do a couple more videos on benzos.

You are very welcome. I’m going to start a video series on treating bipolar with natural remedies, hope this would interest you

Glad it was helpful! I’m prepping another video on the biology of bipolar disorder.

Glad you found it helpful, yes I do online consultations, you can find details on my website, here’s the link www.BalancingBrainChemistry.co.uk

You're welcome 😊

Glad it was helpful! Good luck with your recovery

Not medical advice but you might do a deep dive into USP grade methylene blue.

Yes those illnesses affect the brain and cause a bipolar like disorder but it's really the infections hitting your brain. So sorry for your suffering I know that's horrible

So far 64 genes have been associated with bipolar disorder, twin studies have show beyond any doubt that in order to have bipolar i.e. have a mania, we have to have the bipolar genetics for your brain to go into this condition. Another way to say, that is that you could put lots of different people through psychological distress, trauma and inflammation from infections, and only a small handful of people will develop mania or depression; and these (we) people have the genetics such that our brain can produce a manic depressed state. The infections you mention, Epstein-Barr, Rocky, Mountain, spotted fever, Coxsackie, flu, are notorious for producing very strong provocation of the immune system, and the discharge of lots of cytokines, and in your case, it looks like these infections and the inflammation they produced has activated the bipolar jeans that were previously dormant in your system. People can carry a genetic vulnerability to her condition, and either not express it until later in life, or perhaps never express it throughout the duration of their life. We now know that inflammation is the primary, driving force or trigger that switches on the expression of these genes, or switches on the physiological processes that these jeans encode for and then activate the condition. There are now numerous studies showing that inflammatory events from infections can trigger all the major mental health conditions including: schizophrenia, OCD, major recurring depression, and bipolar disorder. Look at in another and more positive way what this new understanding is telling us that we can combat these conditions by eliminating excessive inflammation and keeping it at bay. Surprisingly and disappointingly once the condition has been activated the condition remains a permanent vulnerability. I’ve seen this many times, I had hoped that by eliminating the original source of the inflammation the condition would go back into a fully dormant state. Once switched on however you need to apply continuous preventative treatment in order to control the condition; in other words, the condition doesn’t go away, just because he overcome the apparent after affects of an infection. In my own case, although I had depression from childhood, it was after a serious bout of influenza or flu when I was 13 years old, but I was distinctly remember my mental health, taking a nosedive and I never was the same again. Ten years ago based on this new understanding of neuro-inflammation being the driving force driving bipolar disorder, I tried a new treatment strategy of reducing inflammation in my brain with diet, supplements and additional lifestyle techniques, whilst at the same time boosting my neuroplasticity, and the results have been spectacular. Since adopting this treatment strategy, I have been mania and depression free for over 13 years as long as I maintain the treatment. During this time, I have twice experimented with coming off the treatment regime to see if by some miracle, I have totally cured my bipolar, and on both occasions, the condition returned in the form of hypomania within 5 days to 2 weeks. One significant inflammation has been activated in the brain the microglial cells seem to maintain chronic activation. The treatment strategy I would adopt in your case would be several months of an aggressive, anti inflammation regime of supplements, diet, and other lifestyle measures, the goal is to basically break the back of the chronic inflammation in your brain. I’ve been developing treatment strategies to combat inflammation in the brain for 10 years now, it’s probably going to be half a year or more, but I will be making a long video on the subject of how inflammation underpins drives the big four mental health conditions, and the strategies we can adopt too regain control.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatmentsyou brought up fasting and exercise… Do you believe getting into ketosis helps? There’s lots of anecdotal evidence of those who went keto or carnivore helped their bipolar significantly - to the point where they haven’t had episodes in years! And some say it worked within days / weeks. I’m newly diagnosed and tried this out after my 4th or 5th episode of depression (my absolute worst episode) it was the one that made me realize I had several other episodes in past because they always followed months of me feeling amazing and confident… this episode got worse right after I contracted covid in December 2022… I didn’t get better until June 2023 - and it was after a couple of 40 hour fasts followed by strict carnivore diet.