YOU ARE NOT ALONE - A companion online community discussion board for The Mental Illness Happy Hour podcast with Paul Gilmartin

Schizophrenia, gluten, and low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diets: a case report and review of the literature https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652467/ Found this on a keto subreddit. "We report the unexpected resolution of longstanding schizophrenic symptoms after starting a low-carbohy...

What's up? I was only hospitalized once when I was 20. I was on Lithium for about 4 years. I never heard voices or had visual hallucinations. I struggled with hypomania until I hit about 32 when I started taking B12 and fish oil. The thought, "hmmm... I think I'm feeling Bipolar" that I wo...

My takeaway from this article is to use a PPI (Nexium) when you feel manic. I can recall a "squirt" of acid when I felt a major stressor which took me to a "manic place". I'm older now (40+) and experience stomach pain when I eat certain foods. I started taking a PPI every few mo...

"Don't want to be touched sexual and feel grossed out by it." Were you abused as a child? Have you talked to a therapist about it? Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe you only want to be sexual with someone you're in a healthy caring relationship with.

This is why think meditation is important. It can be used to help teach you how focus on relevant information and ignore irrelevant information. Individuals with schizophrenia are distracted by emotional information, which is uniquely caused by reduced activity between the amygdala and the medial pr...

Does the crying stop quickly after your period? Is there a consistent pattern? My personal theory is progesterone drops too low causing a temporary depression. http://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/low-progesterone#LowProgesterone2 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Progest...

I suggest a low dose (50mg) generic Zoloft 2 or 3 days before the PMDD kicks in. I know this might conflict with BP meds, but it's worth a trying for a month or two.

"If you drink alcohol, you can continue to drink some alcohol while taking lithium but drinking alcohol can make you dehydrated. If this happens, the lithium level may rise in your body and reach a toxic level." My feeling about it... alcohol is a depressant. If you feel manic (rapid speec...

Scientists eliminate core symptom of schizophrenia in mice https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160218132239.htm "Researchers have successfully disrupted a genetic chain of events in a mouse model of schizophrenia and reversed memory deficits, one of the disorder's most difficult-to-tr...