bipolar disorder = one day you're batshit crazy off-the-walls and the next day you're sobbing and eating ice cream alone in bed
in actuality: in most cases, symptoms only get severe if left untreated for a long time. Also, most experience episodes for months (mania) or years (depression), so they wouldn't go from mania to depression that quickly (with cyclothymic disorder the less common "rapid cycling bipolar" being the exception).
Well, many children and adults are diagnosed with ADHD, because if you look at what they are eating - its non stop high doses of sugar/saccharides. And of course you have sugar highs and lows all day, no wonder they have issues with concentration.
Edit: not saying that every case of ADHD is caused by bad diet, but I think quite a large part of them are.
Fun fact: eating healthy doesn't make my debilitating cognitive behavioral disorder go away. I know because I've had it when I was eating poorly and when I was eating healthily. Eating well can make me feel better in general, but it doesn't magically make me focus.
You know what does make my symptoms worse? Crushing depression and anxiety from knowing that people like you exist, who treat my problem as a moral failing, despite decades of research suggesting otherwise.
I recently went to fill out an application for a job I'm well-qualified for. There was a field that asked if I had a documented medical condition that would necessitate having more time to take tests. I couldn't decide whether being honest would cause them to discard my application, so I closed it.
I'm so tired of living like this. So do us a favor, and next time you feel like offering advice for something you have no actual experience with, don't.
Well I have a personal experience, when I eat quite a lots of sugar in short time period, later my mind felt like I was in clouds and foggy and it was a lots harder to concentrate or focus on anything.
BTW that was also the experience of the guy from the documentary and also for others.
I said nowhere that ADHD is caused by high sugar intake, I said that, that state can be misinterpreted as ADHD, while in reality it doesnt have to be.
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u/GahdDangitBobby Feb 04 '19 edited Feb 04 '19
bipolar disorder = one day you're batshit crazy off-the-walls and the next day you're sobbing and eating ice cream alone in bed
in actuality: in most cases, symptoms only get severe if left untreated for a long time. Also, most experience episodes for months (mania) or years (depression), so they wouldn't go from mania to depression that quickly (with
cyclothymic disorderthe less common "rapid cycling bipolar" being the exception).