Any advice on treating bipolar or depression with L-tryptophan, L-dopa, and L-theanine?
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Sandy, you are a strange one... Somehow, your questions about spanking make me regret my own fetish.
Yes, my advice to you is not to play doctor with this. My husband has Bipolar Disorder, and he needs his doctors. One is the chemical wizard who adjusts his meds as needed. The other is for counseling. Why would you prescribe something as a layperson for a person with a serious medical condition?
Get your head out of that, and don't worry about the side effects, which the doctor can manage as well. Think of her true best interests!
As for the spanking of a 25-year-old, this is wrong. Can you help her get away from that environment? If you look at it legally, that spanking is assault and punishable under the law.
You are trying to ask a stupid question about spanking females wrapped around a depression dilema. Stop it.
I think it's difficult, because you don't know what exactly her problem is. If she does not make enough neurotransmitters, NT precursors may help. However, if certain recepotor sites need to be blocked, or she has a problem with excessive reuptake of NT's, then she will continue to have the same problems.
Yes, many drugs have side effects. Sorry, but that's life. Bipolar has many "side effects" as well. She may find a medicine that can help her with her affect and have little to no side effects, it's trial and error. Eventually, someone is going to have to make a decision, what is more important...being at a better level of functioning and risking some side effects, or maybe not being able to roll out of bed on most days, but being side effect free!
If she is concerned about weight gain, I would not recommend Lithium or Depakote, or many of the antipsychotics (although Geodon & Abilify may or may not cause weight gain).
Any antidepressive effects (whether from precursors or medications) may precipitate mania. That is why combined therapy is highly important.
hey sandstorm. switching catagories are you?
Yes, you ARE way off-base with this one, my dear. First of all, mood stabilizers are NOT antipsychotics; they typically are anticonvulsants. Second, a little weight gain sure beats cycling into a depressive, manic, or mixed state, especially if there are consequences like you describe her dad as perpetrating (who, by the way, needs to be locked up for abusing a mentally ill child who sometimes can't help her behavior). Part of the problem with so-called "motivation boosters" is that they push a patient into mania. I'm sure my psychiatrist gets plenty from the drug companies, but it makes zero difference to me. He is able to keep me stable with the meds he's prescribed, and that is the bottom line, isn't it?
nope sorry sweetheart
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