A friend recently asked Joe for advice on alternative treatments for bi-polar diagnosis. Joe wasn’t aware of any—this isn’t a commonly asked question of him. So Joe asked me if I had heard of any. I didn’t think I could help at first because I haven’t yet interviewed anyone with that issue.
Then I remembered the following stories:
1. Early on in my healing a friend shared a private story about an ex-girlfriend who was suicidal. During the time they were dating a doctor diagnosed her with a brain tumor and sent her to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. At this time the brain x-ray or scan was read by an expert who said she did NOT have a brain tumor.
The doctor added that the center was doing a research study and thought she was a good candidate due to her history of suicidal thoughts and mood swings. They sent her home with a list of what NOT to eat. Over a three week period the girl followed it, kept a journal and food log, and then went back on the final day on the diet. After the final questioning and reviewing her logs the researchers told her she was allergic to caffeine and she should avoid it. The girl thought they were “stupid” and didn’t believe them.
The researchers had heard this before and produced a liter of soda and asked her to drink it all. She did happily as she hadn’t had any for three weeks. Within 20 minutes she was crying and suicidal. She decided the researchers weren’t stupid at that point. My friend said she stayed away from sodas and coffee from then on and lead a normal life. He even broke up with her, now free of the threat of suicide. And she did fine without him.
2. My first year in college I meet and became close friends with a rather eccentric girl. She was moody and she told me she had been diagnosed as bi-polar and suicidal. Well, she did come from a twisted family and some families can drive you nuts, I knew that from experience.
During finals in our last college semester she did try suicide painting the walls with her blood. I found out a week later because she came to my house and told me she had abandoned her apartment and pets, gave me her car keys, and and asked me to mail some items to her family. She took off walking. I later learned from her parents that she made it to a San Francisco before being returned to their care.
What’s my point?
Well, she was a huge soda drinker. She could drink two three-liter bottles of soda in one day. Especially when she was stressed. Looking back, I do not believe her soda consumption and her bi-polar personality were a coincidence.
3. Another person I met talks publicly about his aspartame poisoning. He essentially was losing his mind much like an Alzheimer’s patient. Doctors ran tests and said, “Nothing is wrong with you, it’s all in your head.” Although his conditon was in his head, it was directly related to his high consumption of aspartame in diet soda and yogurt. Today, he begins every talk about marketing with his personal story to warn others about aspartame and diet sodas.
I decided I should enter these stories in my blog.
And I began to think, “Is this my destiny? Attracting stories about food powers and sharing food allergy information with others? Or am I just like you and in the middle of an Epidemic that mainstream doctors are not awakening too?
