Bipolar Nutrition and Diet

5 <-- If you notice I haven't written lately. I had an episode and tried to hide it from my wife. Mental illness caries a huge stigmatizim because people are looked down upon as weak or lesser than. All this thinking came from working this week w/my trainer who has diabetes. Today we do not look at diabetes as something horrible and maybe we might catch it if we are next to someone with it. Because of modern medicine when my trainer wasn't feeling well he grabbed his test kit and found out that his blood sugar was too high. He got some rest made sure he didn't eat any carbs and he was great the next day.

So yesterday I had an apointment w/my counselor (due to the prior episode) and when I asked what should the diet of a bipoletic(made up word?) eat she knew only that a diet low in bad carbs was best. She also said that the omega-3 fatty acids were good to take. We talked about the similarities between Diabetes and Bipolar Disorder and that because mental illness science is soo new comparitavely that hopefully that my posterity can just take a home test each day and regulate their own levels of neurotransmitters. I guess you could say that I am a Pioneer in mentall illness and hopefully the next generations will be able to regulate this awful family crushing illness. Search google for Bipolar Diet and the 1st article that came up is now on the LINKS portion of this blog.

My grandfather Wayne Lemmon died from diabetes in 1959 when my mother was but 12 years old. It was induced from WWII injuries that he sustained as a gunner on top of many tanks. He returned 6' and 89 lbs and was in and out of the VA hospital so many times that it would make your head spin. He was a Pioneer for diabetes and I cannot wait to meet him in heaven along with my grandmother, his wife, who suffered severely from bipolar disorder. Between the years of 1959 and 1972 she was sooo messed up that all her kids didn't want anything to do with her and her dilusions/visions caused most to push away from her. Thank goodness for a wonderful angel by the name of Ernie Mocco who was a great stabalizer in her life and a huge SAINT in the lives of my aunt, uncle and mother because of the relief of such huge episodes and calming effect he had on her. I have a greater love and appreciation for her because of my own discoveries with bipolar disorder over the last year and a half. I miss her soooooo much and wish that we could talk about all of it. She was never diagnossed.