Re: Vitamins successfully treated my Bipolar Disorder & enabled me to have a baby.

Hello Fakiani:

Unless a psychiatrist is a specialist in natural, homeopathic, orthomolecular, or some sort of alternative medicine, they are almost guaranteed to tell you that a vitamin treatment won't work. My psychiatrist wasn't sarcastic. He literally "guaranteed" that I would have a manic episode if I went off medication and took vitamins instead. He called it expensive pee. He was wrong.

He did give me one piece of valuable advice however. I told him that I wanted to take vitamins to treat my bipolar disorder while I was pregnant. He suggested that I see an MFCC, psychologist, or social worker because they too are trained to recognize the onset of hypomania or a manic episode before it gets out of hand. I've been on True Hope's vitamins (with no medication) since March 1, 2004 and I've been seeing an MFCC to supervise the transition since before I dropped the meds. I've had no problems.

Psychiatrists are medical doctors. Medical doctors specialize in medicine. Surgeons specialize in surgery. Dentists specialize in teeth. Most of them don't really know a whole lot about things that are not in their specialty. Ask your psychiatrist how much time his med school spent teaching nutrition. Legally speaking, your psychiatrist might be risking his medical license to endorse any treatment that wasn't FDA approved. Maybe someday soon they'll be able to recommend True Hope as they are currently undergoing an FDA approved study.

If you want the names of a couple of psychiatrists who know that vitamins can help enormously, try visiting
http://www.drcass.com
or
http://www.thewayup.com.
Neither of those two doctors know much about True Hope's vitamin plan but they do know a lot about nutritional influences on mental illness.

Keep in mind that you will probably be taking roughly 3-4X the amount shown as a servicing size when you look at the nutritional contents on True Hope's web site. I've seen both of the above doctors and when I showed truehope's ingredients to Dr. Cass, she thought that there wouldn't be enough of the vitamins that I would need but she didn't know that that was only one out of 4 servings that I would be taking in a day.

As for pregnancy, my OBGYN-gynecologist was concerned about my getting too much Vitamin A (which can cause severe birth defects). So I contacted
http://www.ctispregnancy.org
(they specialize in knowing what is known to be safe and not safe during pregnancy - they are run by the University of San Diego) and showed them the EmPower vitamin I was planning on using as my prenatal vitamin. They said that there were no known studies on that particular vitamin but that the quantities of the vitamins that I would be taking were not know to cause any fetal problems.

Best wishes,
Julia