Have you been diagnosed with bipolar disorder or believe you know someone who might have it? Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that effects millions of people and Acupuncture is being researched and studied as a complimentary treatment for it. Here's some information to help you understand how Acupuncture treatment can be beneficial.
Bipolar disorder (also referred to as manic-depressive disorder) is marked by periods of manic or high energy with euphoria and racing thoughts, alternating with periods of depression, apathy, and down moods. Symptoms can range from mild to severe depending on how bad or frequent the mood swings are during a cycle of mania and depression.
Most people with bipolar disorder often have relatives with bipolar disorder. They often have depression before the age of 25, and repeated periods of depression with oversleeping and overeating that doesn’t respond well to antidepressants.
How Can Acupuncture Help Bipolar Disorder?
Acupuncture is a holistic form of medicine. It is not only focused on the body, but is also focused on finding balance for the mind and finding equilibrium for the mood and emotions. People who have bipolar disorder are shifting from one extreme to the other, and the goal is to restore balance.
An Acupuncturist will assess a patient to determine what points would best correct the imbalance, relieve the symptoms at the source, and be balanced on a deep core level. Inserting needles at specific points helps to open blocked meridians and restore balanced energy flow. Many people fear that the needles could be very painful, but the needles are as tiny as a hair, and in most cases there is only a slight discomfort felt. The needles are then manipulated to have the desired therapeutic affect.
If you think that you or someone you know has bipolar disorder, it is important to see and get treated by a doctor or primary care physician, but also consider Acupuncture as an effective adjunct therapy.
Following is an excerpt from an interview with musician Kristin Hersh, about her experience with Acupuncture for Bipolar Disorder, originally published on AcuTake Health.
Kristin Hersh is the founder, lead singer and guitarist for the popular 1980s rock band Throwing Muses. She also is the author of Rat Girl, a memoir released last year that chronicles the early stages of Hersh’s 20-year battle with bipolar disorder. After two decades of trying everything from lithium to vitamins to exercise to just succumbing to her symptoms, Hersh had nearly given up on hopes of becoming well. Then she found acupuncture.
There is a lot of debate over how acupuncture actually works. Based on your experience, what is your interpretation of how acupuncture works for bipolar?
The way your soul is oriented to your body, it wants to be balanced; it wants to heal. But there are so many influences affecting us physically that it can’t always orient itself to the right position. It felt to me as though acupuncture reoriented me to the point where my soul knew exactly where it needed to be in my body. When I don’t get acupuncture, I am not orientated in my body, and my body isn’t functioning the way it should. We are emotional, psychological and intellectual beings, and all of these systems in me have orientated themselves since getting acupuncture. I haven’t yet experienced any symptoms that couldn’t be alleviated by coming back into balance that way.
Acupuncture is a systemic treatment rather than a symptomatic treatment. I trust this approach much more than the band-aid that medications provide. Bipolar is a host of conditions with a different array of symptoms depending on the person. I don’t experience this imbalance the way every other bipolar individual does. It is imperative to treat the disease at its deepest level. I didn’t want to live my life treating symptoms. I was diagnosed with bipolar about 25 years ago. That’s a long time to be trying to solve a problem and not succeeding. To have every symptom work itself out—to become unnecessary, is how it felt—makes me think that acupuncture works by treating the condition at its deepest level.
To read the entire article about Kristin’s return to health through Acupuncture,
click here: A Musician’s Return from Bipolar
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