My favorite book list for beating bipolar or depression

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Dear group:

 

I consider the following all " must read " books for

those persons that wish to overcome bipolar disorder naturally and

can read, assimilate, and discriminate between quite a bit of

information, some of which is in error.

 

Admittedly one needs to " read between the lines " of the books in the

list below to some degree, as many of these books don't even mention

bipolar disorder at all, even though they are all quite germane to

this illness.

 

1. " Depression - Cured At Last " by Sherry Rogers,

M.D. A truly landmark work. Not to be missed.

 

2. " No More Heartburn " by Sherry Rogers, M.D. This is Dr. Rogers

only professionally edited book (all the rest were self published,

which is not at all a negative feature, as when Dr. Rogers self

published she often put quite a few helpful references at the end of

each chapter). " No More Heartburn " essentially strips " the gut

issues " out of her book " Depression - Cured At Last " and expands on

them somewhat.

 

All of Dr. Rogers books can be found on www.prestigepublishing.com

Sherry Rogers was by far my greatest teacher, despite her near total

blindness in regard to the incredible usefulness of amino acids.

 

3. " The Way Up From Down " by Priscilla Slagle. This

book is a true classic (first copyrighted in 1987). Its amino acid

prescriptions are quite out of date, but when first published they

were way ahead of their time. This book is available free from

www.thewayup.com It is also only about $6.00 in paperback, probably

the best use of $6. I experienced in my entire life.

 

4. " Tissue Cleansing Though Bowel Management " by

Bernard Jensen. A real classic on the gut. Not to be missed.

 

5. " Is This Your Child? " by Doris Rapp. Do not

confuse this book with the book " Is This Your Child's

World? " by Doris Rapp. These are two different books.

" Is This Your Child? " , although written for ADHD,

strongly applies to bipolar.

 

6. " Patient Heal Thyself " by Jordan Rubin. Jordan Rubin draws

heavily on the knowledge of Jensen and others. Jordan Rubin is " the

new kid on the block gut-wise " . Both his books and his Garden of

Life supplement products are well spoken of by many.

 

7. The book by Jordan Rubin detailing his " Guts and

Glory Program " for healing the gut (you will have to

look this up). Jordan Rubin does miss the issue of

hidden food allergy almost completely, but on other

gut issues he is very insightful.

 

8. " Digestive Wellness " by Elizabeth Lipski. A real gem on the gut.

 

9. " The Amino Revolution " by Robert Erdmann. This book has some

serious flaws, but so little is written on amino acids. This book

made my favorite book list more or less by default, due to the lack

of decent books on how to use amino acids.

 

10. " The Mood Cure " by Julia Ross. A very worthy read. However, I

feel that until Julia Ross recommends some kind of broad based amino

acid prescription for depression, she is incorrect on this issue.

Her old tyrosine/phenylalanine prescription for depression is simply

a page out of Dr. Slagle's book " The Way Up From Down " , and it is

quite out of date.

 

11. " Optimum Nutrition for the Mind " by Patrick Holford.

 

I am working from memory on the above book list, but I think I

got the titles right.

 

Essentially books one through five in the list above were primarily

where I found the various truths that I needed to find in order to get

better from 30 years of heavy bipolar symptoms. Books six through

eleven I read after I got well, and saw value in them.

 

I cannot thank some of the authors of the above books enough. In a

very real sense, I may owe the authors of books one through five my

very life.

 

In leaving out of the above list a number of other great books on

overcoming chemical imbalance naturally, I do not mean to demean

either the authors of these books or the valuable insight contained

in them in any way. However, if I " had to do my recovery all over

again " I sure feel that the above eleven books would have been a

great place to start vs. the hundred and fifty to two hundred books

that I had to plough through to find these gems.

 

IMHO, no one book in the list above has all of the answers of how to

beat bipolar.

 

Also, I am in disagreement with some material in almost every book

that is listed above... it seems to me that most of the above authors

were right on some stuff and wrong on others... at least in regard to

understanding what I needed to know to overcome bipolar disorder in

myself.

 

Lastly, over time I expect to amend " my favorite book " list as I

continue to learn and read more.

 

Allen