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Student and Therapist Newsletter Archive
- Bipolar Disorder
+ Bipolar disorder. - March 07
Hi John
It is a long time since I have written to you, but thanks for all the
newsletters - I look forward to receiving them.
I want to ask your help today. I have some friends in Cape Town who have
a son approx 40 years old who has suffered from Bi Polar since he was
about 15 yrs old.
They have tried every possible treatment, but have had no success. I would
like to advise them about the condition and 'Cranio' and then to advise
them to seek help CranioSacrally
Please advise ASAP
Kind regards
John Rosen
Johannesburg SA
>>>MY COMMENTS:
I treated a woman before I left Brisbane
who had Bipolar for thirty five years. She had been institutionalised
a couple of times and had been given shock treatment at the start of the
90's and again in 2000.
When she came to see me she was in the process of weening
herself off her medication. The pattern of her symptoms was two
months of feeling very high followed by two moths of feeling very low
and so on. When she came to see me she was in a low.
Taking her case history was very intense because she was
obviously in a lot of emotional pain and couldn't stop crying. We
got through it and she lay on the table and I assessed her.
It turned out that the root cause of her symptoms was - physical.
Her sphenoid was restricted.
In the course of taking her case history it had come out
that she was a forceps delivery. As you know, the sphenoid isn't
ossified when you are a
new born. This woman's right greater wing was torsioned in relation
to the body of the sphenoid.
The right greater wing was also side bending in relation
to the body, meaning the right wing was much more anterior than the left
wing when the sphenoid was in neutral.
It always feels to me that the patterns of restriction in
the sphenoid act as indicators of the deeper restrictions in the membranes.
Bone doesn't move on its own. Trauma is nearly always held most
strongly in the membranes.
The other thing I've found with depression and the sphenoid
is that it's not the sphenoid that brings on depression but rather the
effect the pattern of restriction has on the pituitary gland which is
sitting atop the sphenoid in the sellae turcica. Particularly as
the infundibulum of the pituitary perforates the diaphragma sellae.
The restriction pattern in this woman's sphenoid was like
this. Deep patterns of restriction held in the tent and surrounding
membranes since birth. Her pituitary was also under pressure at
its infundibulum.
She saw me for six treatments at the end of which she was neutral.
Not high, not low. She couldn't remember ever feeling like that
for more than a day or so when she was in transition from high to low
or visa versa.
I was in email contact with her about two months later and
she was still symptom free.
35 years of symptoms sorted out in six weeks. Who's glad
they're a cranio sacral therapist! Hands in the air! Come on, you at the
back, hands in the air!
Not all people with bipolar will respond as well as this
woman. Not all bipolar is caused by restrictions in the cranio sacral
system. I would encourage your friends to get their son assessed
by a good cranio sacral therapist. It will all help.
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