Anger and Agitation Can Be Signs Of Bipolar Disorder We all know that lethargy, daunting feelings of defeat, thoughts of suicide, and a keen unwillingness to go on with life...
The reason you are reading this is because somehow I survived. Young and dumb, I once ventured out on a boogie board on the north shore of the island of...
Follow Your Gut In my opinion, people with bipolar and depression tend to have unhealthy diets due to their illness. We are constantly trying to make ourselves feel better, and...
Scientists have for speculated that genius may be linked with madness. The link was strongest among those who studied music or literature, the two disciplines in which genius and madness...
Many people do not realize that lithium itself is not a drug, but is instead a naturally occurring mineral salt like potassium, and is something that everyone needs for proper mental...
What do you do after you've "tried everything?” Should you consider omega-3 fatty acids, or other approaches for which there is some but only a little evidence that they "work",...
Description St. John’s Wort is a plant with yellow flowers, leaves and stems whose medicinal uses were first recorded in ancient Greece. It has long been a happy alternative for...
Victoria came in yesterday wondering if she should take hormones for menopause. At age 54, she hadn’t had a menstrual period in over six months, but wasn’t having any of...
In fact, they don’t even have a word for hot flashes… Menopause is a word that generally makes people cringe— both men and women. Women – because they have to...
You can be 54 and still be an attractive woman and feel full of energy. What may surprise you is that for some, menopause feels like a haze has been...
Is Menopause a Joke? The moment notice came that this month’s issue of Home Cures That Work would focus on menopause I knew the angle I would take in my...
“I feel like I’m going crazy!” she said. I’ll never forget that moment. My mother-in-law was 51 and completely menopausal. She confessed to me through her tears, that she...
