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Bipolar disorder used to be called manic depression which evokes mauve-colored velvet suits, ocd symptoms lace dresses, opium pipes, and warm valerian-scented bathwater. Bipolar sounds like a machine. Has it come to that? Mechanized? Experts say it affects nearly six million American adults, or about 2.5% of the adult population. That may be an underestimate. Most people, to a varying degree, swing from high to low energy and enthusiasm depending on circumstance and habits. Doctors call it mania and depression: I call it life in the Big City, a troubled marriage, job loss, family worries, and excess hype from overwork, ocd symptoms worry, lost sleep, caffeine, smoking, drinking, talking, or traveling. Everyone overdoes ocd symptoms it sometime. The illness ocd symptoms develops when you can t regroup. People with mania can t stop to reason clearly, relax, take a deep breath and enjoy life. (Think hyper-adrenal and/or hyperthyroid) People with depression can t see beyond the dumps. What no one says is that life as we live it now–with competition played out to the hilt and lacking job or relationship security–that kind of life demands madness. We were not built to sustain endless fear, anger, and disappointment. Some nuttiness, ocd symptoms especially among creative people, is normal, functional, and praised by society. Here are things you can do to help even-out the bumps.
Keeping Body and Mind Healthy and Running Smoothly is a challenge for slender hypersensitive types as well as overweight couch spuds. How can you keep your immunity primed and emotional balance ocd symptoms intact? Practice Regular Eating and Sleeping Habits. It saves wear and tear.
Try to eat around the same time daily so that your digestion is ready. After age 30, or if you smoke and drink coffee, add digestive enzymes. Don t start the day with something cold, raw, non-nourishing or just plain dumb. Time was, the typical ballerina breakfast was black coffee and a candy bar. Hopefully they have grown a brain by now.
To stay super slim don t mix proteins and starches. They work against each other. Have one or the other plus hot green tea for breakfast: A boiled egg and green vegetable, or cooked cereal or toast. Don t neglect your supplements. Take calcium, magnesium and vitamin D3 on an empty stomach or with tea or OJ. Taking them along with a big meal retards absorption in the gut.
Foods ocd symptoms that Smooth-out Mood and Energy Swings: Balanced nutrition made up of about 80% alkaline and %20 acidic foods. ocd symptoms That means lots more vegetables than fruit, meat, and dairy. For example, 2 fruits, 6 – 9 vegetables ocd symptoms (a salad), one protein source, one starch and lots of tea daily. Oils are important for the nerves as well as the heart. If you hate fish oils, try hemp or flax seed oils. Add them to salad, whole grain pastas along with mushrooms. Shiitake, enoki help prevent cancer and taste nice. If you are cancer-anxious, suffer from chronic fatigue and depression, or want to supplement your protein with mushrooms but hate to cook, Health Concerns makes Power Mushroom pills combining numerous anticancer mushrooms. For mushroom research and products also see Fungi Perfecti.
If you are experiencing hyper-energy–inability to think, relax, sleep; if your thoughts race and speech is too speedy (hyperthyroid) eating turnips will calm you. It sounds nuts, but is advice from Dr. Yves Requena a respected endocrinologist from France who has worked with hyperthyroid patients using herbs and diet. Acupuncture points on the feet near the first three toes also calm the mind and bring down inflammation from the head, neck and thyroid. Soak your feet in warm water adding lemon juice and massage your feet gently to bring your body’s attention to your feet.
Pity your Muscles: Stretch, Breathe, ocd symptoms Get Up and Walk around. ocd symptoms Drink water: It may taste boring, but your bones, muscles and joints are full of water. If you can t stand it, add 1 tsp. black cherry concentrate high in iron and minerals that reduce joint swelling (gout ouches) or drink Tibetan goji berry tea.
Massages and Soaking Baths give a sense of body perimeters and reduce pain. When I was living in France, studying graduate psychology at University of Paris, Nanterre, some class friends told me about their work in a psychiatric hospital called La Borde. There schizophrenic patients were wrapped in cold sheets to give them a sense of body. I think a nice warm bath is less shocking and gives a sense of happy body. Add Epsom Salts or mix essential oils in a little milk to add to bath water.
If you feel speedy, unsettled, add magnolia, sandalwood, ylang ylang, ocd symptoms or rose essential oil to milk for your bath water. If you feel depressed and heavy, add r