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Hello,
I have a 19 year old stepdaughter who my wife and some doctors believe has Bi-polar disorder. I've never considered her personality very nice but when she had her first "episode" a few years back, she turned into one of the nastiest persons I've ever had to associate with. She was extremely rude, disrepectful and belligerent. Along with using unbelievably foul language towards us including wishing that my wife(her mother) and I would die! Even though her mother has a heart of gold and I have never done anything mean to her.
She did get on some type of medication which seem to "stabilize" her but ever since then I've believed that the medication simply helps her control what she says and does even though she still thinks bad things and generally is not a nice person. It gives her the mental contol she needs to hide her true feelings and thoughts.
Do to financial reasons she decided to stop taking the medication and is now back to her nasty personality which I believe is her true personality.
So finally, getting to my question, does bi-polar "make" you say and do bad things towards others? Or is it like a truth serum, where you don't have the control needed to keep things to yourself.

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Hi ED, Well Bipolar disorder can change a person's personality to great a degree. Most Bipolar people are also hypoglycemic that causes them to have wild mood swings. Thus going of a hypoglycemic diet may reduce some of the symptoms.

Please read:

Nutritional Aspects of Schizophrenia at:
http://curezone.com/upload/Newsletter/Hypoglycemic_He/HYPONL2001_06.pdf
and go to page 7 of Newsletter.

which may also apply to Bipolar people. Also read articles at:


Treatment for Bipolar Disorder at:
http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/default.htm#B

I suggest that you discuss this with a Nutritional Doctor or a Clinical Nutritionist.

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Jurriaan Plesman BA (Psych) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search  

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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist

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Have worked as a psychotherapist for overv twenty years, dealing with many personality disorders

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I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”. I am also the ex-editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems. Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia. Its web site is at:

http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Author of the book "Getting off the Hook", It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. Various articles in the Hypoglycemic Health Association's Newsletters

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BA (Psych) (University of Sydney), Post Gad Dip Clin Nutr (International Academy of Nutrition)

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