Vitamin/supplements to help with mental illness?
I have major depression, generalized anxiety (pretty severe lately), borderline personality disorder, and bipolar II. My health insurance co. has a hotline to call for medical advice. I spoke with them and asked about a specific vitamin regimen that may be helpful to me. I did not want to go to a health food store because I wanted MEDICAL advice. I was advised as to the B’s – B 12, zinc, folic acid, etc, and also Omega-3 fatty acid/fish oil. Does anyone have any information on these in respect to mental disorders?
Those supplements have been shown to help some people with bio-chemical disorders, but the main thing is what you eat. Your body and brain can only function on what you feed it. Change your diet, change your chemistry, you heal your brain, and problems can go away.
My guess is you diet or eat a lot of sugar, white bread, pasta, fruit, diet products, very little protein, skip breakfast, etc.
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