Can I improve my bipolar without professional help?

You can improve your bipolar condition without professional help but only up to a degree. You can establish a support system from the family and friends around you who in turn can help you with your routine. However you probably need professional help alongside this for it to work. You need to be guided by a psychiatrist with regard to medication for starters because ultimately the chemical responses in the brain must be managed. You may also need help with sleep and that may only be possible through medication.

You most likely can, you can always Google some ways and tips and exercises or you can talk to someone on here who can help you with something like that. But to be honest, even when you have bipolar in your life, sometimes you just have to accept it, I don't know if you can overcome being bipolar.

no, bipolar normally needs to be treated with medication and or therapy to be able to keep it in check, and it will be an on going thing from when you are diagnosed though out your life. its not easy but its doable. you will have to go though medication trial and error to find the right cocktail for you, the same ones are not right for everyone. there will be side effects that wont be pleasant but its comes with the disorder and or with the medication trial and errors. but it can get better once you do find the right medication and therapy :)

Yes! I am bipolar myself, and while I am not completely cured, I am healthy. Over the past couple years I've gotten to know myself, and the way my brain works, specifically the part of my brain that tends to spark the bipolar disorder. By surrounding myself with the right people, and by showing myself love I've been able to at least minimize the severity of my illness.

it may be difficult to improve bipolar symptoms without professional help because bipolar disorder can be aggressive if not monitored by a professional. you may be able to go weeks or months but eventually the disease can become worse. you need to stay on medication maybe your whole life. A Doctor needs to be informed about how you are feeling or if there are any changes with your medications, sleep patterns and overall health. If you have a milder form of bipolar, you sometimes can go off your meds and be ok just by lifestyle decisions. If you have a severe form of bipolar yes, you need a Psychiatrist to increase or lower your medications. You should never go off your meds alone. if you stop your bipolar meds without your Dr. knowing and you don't feel better, your Dr. may become upset because they need to start all over with the doseges. I have Bipolar and i have gone off my meds without my Dr. knowing and i did relaps and my whole body started hurting and i could not sleep. On my meds which led up to me going off them, i felt i didn't need them. I was so wrong. I just thought I wanted to feel my bipolar disease alone without meds. I was curious. I had to be hospitalized and put back on my meds. I havn't gone off my meds since. I feel you are safer to be on the BP meds and get professional help especially Therapy.

Try meditation, on youtube there are many many meditation vids, pick from one you like and go from there. I hope this helps!

I would suggest getting professional help if you can. You may need medication even if it is only for the short term. Having professional help with making lifestyle changes can be very useful. Learning the tools from a professional, to then be able to help yourself is very beneficial.

You can certainly try to improve your bipolar through diet, exercise and educating yourself about the disease, but the right professional can make such a difference in your quality of life that you will wonder why you waited so long.

Everybody deals with bipolar differently. In my case, no. I may think that I am ok off medication...and I've tried enough of them that I often get discouraged...but I always relapse. No matter how good things get or how great I think I'm doing, one of those long lasting depressions or manic episodes might just be around the corner, and no matter how hard I try to maintain normalcy and try to keep things even, people around me notice and its caused significant difficulties and setbacks in my life. The best I can say is try and find the right therapist and the right psychiatrist because it will make a world of difference and instead of going through the motions, or just "getting by" you might have a chance at something great.

I draw out a timeline, from when I was last feeling good, to the current point in time. I list events along the timeline which could be possible triggers. Making a visual aid is not only calming, but also acts as a tool. This tool is just one of many that can be included in a "first aid" kit for BP.