Gracelyn Guyol

Gracelyn Guyol is a successful entrepreneur who ended her bipolar mood swings using all-natural substances. After selling her California public relations agency in 1991, she retired mid-life to New England with plans to garden, write, and play tennis.

She had experienced occasional mild depression since her teens, but in 1993 a counselor noticed mild manic highs between her lows and prescribed an antidepressant. Life seemed easier, less chaotic. Within a year, however, rapid growth of benign breast cysts and tumors prompted Gracelyn to have surgery twice in twelve months. Frightened, she consulted a naturopathic doctor trained to treat the causes of illness without drugs. An anti-inflammatory diet and supplements were prescribed to optimize cellular functioning. Gracelyn also avoided chemicals and other toxins that might cause cells to mutate.

Cyst growth stopped, but within a year one new benign tumor appeared. Gracelyn's mood swings had never been life-threatening, but cancer might be. Suspecting that the anti-depressant was triggering the growths, she tapered off to see what would happen. Within two months, her latest tumor disappeared.

Refusing all psychiatric medications, she gave herself two years to find drug-free solutions for the mood swings. Lab tests revealed she had two of four inherited errors of metabolism. Once addressed by specific natural supplements, her mania disappeared in four months. Fifteen months of solid depression that followed were "very difficult,” but she still refused to give up. By 2002 her mania and depression were gone, thanks to holistic natural treatments.

To help other mental patients be aware of these effective options, Gracelyn spent three years educating herself while writing "Healing Depression & Bipolar Disorder Without Drugs" (2006). The book's scientific content led to delivering accredited day-long seminars for medical practitioners in 2007. When patients asked for simple steps to recovery, without all the science, Gracelyn wrote "Who's Crazy Here?" in 2010. In it, she describes how to locate doctors trained to use drug-free solutions and gives steps to recovery for nine mental diagnoses in 114 pages.

After the Newtown School shootings, the author was invited to serve on the Connecticut Children's Mental Health Task Force. She submitted a 30-page recommendation of ten drug-free treatments that were inexpensive, easy to use, and scientifically proven effective.

This research became her 2018 book.

Each chapter in "Restoring Your Child's Mental Health, 10 Innovative Drug-free Treatments," covers one effective, affordable, drug-free treatment for children. It describes the ease of using Homeopathy, BioEnergetic Assessment and Homotoxicology, and Bioresonance. She covers how to improve brain wave balance with the Fisher Wallace Stimulator, or through individualized cognitive building programs at Brain Balance Achievement Centers, or with NuCalm or Neurofeedback Brain Training. Three case histories given in the Emotional Freedom Technique chapter demonstrate how it rapidly lowers emotional trauma in children.

The final two chapters are complex yet filled with hope. Chapter nine describes a wide range of addictions and introduces a relatively new, inexpensive, liquid amino acid and herbal supplement, Synaptamine, developed to hold all addictive cravings in check. Chapter ten summarizes what is known about Schizophrenia and outlines the theories of a leading researcher. The book ends with summaries of recent research that add insight into how the brain's systems work, and with it, offers hope for earlier diagnoses and an improved future for all patients.