The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder: Healthy Mind Guide Series (The healthy mind guides) - Softcover

Marohn, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571742913 ISBN 13: 9781571742919

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Co, 2003

Synopsis

It used to be called manic depression. Wide swings in mood, from elation to the doldrums. Days or months of expansiveness, irritability, increased activity, grandiosity, inflated self-esteem, followed by troughs of sadness, flatness, pessimism, guilt, concentration problems, and weight gain.

An estimated 2.3 million U.S. adults suffer this, as well as another million children and adolescents under age 18. Conventional medicine offers prescription drugs but no lasting improvement or cure. Natural medicine can do much better than that.

The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder, an innovative and inspiring book on natural medicine treatments for a healthy mind, is about healing bipolar, not merely enduring it. Within these pages, medical journalist Stephanie Marohn explores the key contributing factors and triggers for mood disorder and profiles a range of effective, nondrug-based approaches that can truly restore health.

Among the successful healing techniques used by eight natural medicine experts are biological medicine, applied psychoneurobiology, biochemical therapy, nutritional therapy, cranial osteopathy, allergy elimination, homeopathy, and shamanic healing.

Treating the underlying imbalances, rather than suppressing the outer symptoms (as most drugs do), leads to lasting recovery. And only by considering the well-being of the mind and spirit as well as the body can comprehensive healing take place.

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Review

"This book seeks to take the reader well beyond traditional, pharmaceutical-based treatment of Bipolar Disorder. It also seeks to expand readers' understanding of what natural medicine actually is. The information presented is based on research and interviews with physicians and other professionals, not from other books. Part I of the book covers the history, definition, symptomology, and suspected causes of Bipolar Disorder. Part II details holistic treatments of the disorder. It includes in-depth accounts of the protocols of several successful, holistic practitioners, laced with case studies and quotes from those practitioner's patients.

According to the author, effectively treating Bipolar Disorder, rather than just managing its symptoms, requires addressing the disorder at all levels of human existence, from the physical to the spiritual. The book contains lots of specific information, about both the suspected causes (vitamin deficiencies, stress, toxicity, etc.) and the holistic protocols being used successfully today. Consider displaying it with Marohn's earlier work, "Natural Medicine First Aid Remedies", for a great take-action combo." -Anna Jedrziewski, "New Age Retailer"

Synopsis

Contains more than a dozen therapeutic options and case studies for patients suffering from bi-polar disorder. Included are interviews with leading doctors and practitioners in the fields of homeopathy, biochemistry, allergy-elimination, biological and anthroposophic medicine, shamanic healing and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1571742913
• ISBN 13: 9781571742919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144