[FollowingTheDao]

As someone who’s been institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital four times in a still living with bipolar schizoaffective disorder I can tell you being nearsighted is no comparison to having a mood disorder. If people were not ignorant enough to ignore all the nutritional facts that go around the production of catecholamines there would be no need for medication.

Your doctors are probably doing more harm than good by not treating an underlying metabolic disorder. It’s quite possible you have an underlying B6 deficiency.

Why don’t you go get your B6 levels tested and ping me when you get them back OK?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16846100/

[danShumway]

I don't know what everyone else's experiences are, but my psychiatrist definitely ordered blood tests for me before prescribing medication, and I was able to look through the results myself as well. I'm happy for you if you managed to fix your own problems by getting your B6 checked, but vitamin deficiency is not the reason I have ADHD.

[mrtranscendence]

This is prime kook right here. You don’t see it every day.

Most psychiatric problems are not due to a nutritional deficiency. My B6 levels aren’t causing my adhd.

[FollowingTheDao]

Kook huh? Nice.

Is that why I’ve been able to get off all of my medications? Because I’m a kook and I don’t know anything about neurobiology? Or anything about immunology? Or genetics?

You say your B6 levels are not causing your ADHD, but have you ever had them tested?

Yeah it’s so "kooky" that they keep finding B6 defieicny over and over in children with ADHD.

https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/303406

And heck, you might try to take it with your meds, it might help: http://sjh.umsha.ac.ir/download.php?mod=a_atch&atch_id=253&a...

And I suppose it is nothing that polymorphisms in a gene that makes dopamine (DDC) is implicated in ADHD and also needs B6 as a cofactor.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4946061/

But I am the kook I guess. No, it’s not crazy at all to take an amphetamine. It’s not crazy to never wonder why they don’t try to find out why you’re not producing enough amphetamines on your own. It's not crazy we give these drugs endlessly yet ADHD keeps rising.

My Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder is caused by nutrition. Ask me how!

[mrtranscendence]

I've been checked for vitamin deficiencies before, though I don't know if B6 was specifically checked. Regardless, they only found that I was low on vitamin D and so I do take a multivitamin, though I have doubts that it helps in practice. I have also indirectly supplemented vitamin B6 and B12 via frequent energy drink usage (not the healthiest thing I admit!). I notice no difference to mood, physical comfort, or ADHD symptoms on or off vitamin supplementation.

> My Schizoaffective Bipolar Disorder is caused by nutrition.

I suppose anything is possible, but from what I know -- I'm not a psychiatric professional but I've lived with one for 20 years -- it sounds unlikely to be true for most people with similar diagnoses. Believe me, psychiatric hospitals would love to make more beds available by "curing" mental illness with diet.