My husband, a wonderful man who loves me, has been professionally assessed as manic depressive. That was a long time ago. Nowadays the condition is called bipolar disorder and there's more information about alternative therapies for it than ever before. This is wonderful news because I'm a health nut, myself, and Dave is against the use of those powerful bipolar drugs that were forced upon him earlier in life.

He's had horrendous experiences while being detained in various ways and afterwards being required by law to take mood stabilizers and antidepressants. Antidepressants should never be prescribed for a bipolar person. They cause depression...You can discover this fact for yourself by reading the fine print on each packaged anti depression drug.

Drug Awareness Dot Org is a website by Dr. Ann Blake Tracy that is devoted to teaching the public that antidepressants are terrifically harmful and how to come down off them very, very slowly and carefully.

Dave and I have worked together on treating his bipolar condition and we've discovered several innovative tools and techniques for managing his bipolar symptoms and tendencies. As a result, over the five years of our marriage, he has come away from extreme mood swings, panic attacks and acute feelings of anxiety, poor attention span and inability to concentrate on even the comics, and the chemical imbalances that prevented him from living a stable grounded life.

Using our own home-grown therapy we've found emotional stability, sound sleeping patterns, resistance to stressors like sudden frustrations or sudden emergencies, freedom from rapid cycling moods, and the ability to concentrate and hold long meaningful conversations. So we know that bipolar can be managed without drugs.

When Dave and I were married five years ago, I knew nothing about bipolar or sleep disorders or insomnia; nothing about depression or mania or the term "rapid cycling". The first time he lost his temper and began to swear uncontrollably, I began to cry! Here's what happened...

Dave is a strong man and the bipolar brain is a powerful thing. Bipolar people are especially capable thinkers and if motivated, they achieve wonders. So Dave began to control his thoughts, his angers, his rages, and even his sad and lethargic slides down into depression. He had the motivation of pleasing me.

In addition to his personal decision to control his thoughts, we joined together and began to treat his brain and his body with food and drink to try to manipulate his mindset. It worked! We learned by experience that drugs And food And drink And supplements affect his body chemistry and if we're persistent and consistent, we can change the bipolar experience.

Remember that Dave has been involuntarily committed more than once, has been manic, has been deeply depressed, has been uncontrolled and trodden down in his soul by this disorder. Now his life is different and bipolar doesn't interfere with his personhood like it used to.

He's in an ongoing mentoring program learning to cleanse himself and even purge away old traumatic memories. We joined the free training program at Young Living Essential Oils and learned that traumatic memories are not nebulous, not invisible. The memories are actually physically and chemically stored in the fat cells of our liver. In the DNA of the fat cells of your liver!

I'm writing to let you know that Dave, my husband, is bipolar, but we're functioning normally, feeling stable and successful and well-grounded. We did it together, using a treatment system we've come to call a safety net for bipolar people.

I began to teach him the basic principles that every health nut knows deeply:

• Anything can be modified and generally healed using food and drink and specific supplementation

• It's worth the effort to get your body healthy and strong because that affects your enjoyment of Life

•  You need to cleanse your body from the inside out each day forever...

• Where can you live if you can't live in your body?