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u/lindygrey · 1 pointr/BipolarReddit

Yeah, I wouldn't try light therapy without a psychiatrists help and guidance. But, for me, it's really easy to control mania with seroquel. I use the light for only 10 minutes and only when I'm feeling depressed. If I start to feel mania symptoms it's easy to stop the light. Much easier than it is to stop an anti-depressant, which can also cause mania and takes weeks to get out of your system.

The entire contents of the book are online but it's MUCH easier to read it in book form. Here is the website: http://www.psycheducation.org/index.html

I'm not as well versed in treatments for schizoaffective disorder so I probably can't help much but, there are those who feel that bipolar and schizoaffective are merely points on a spectrum. For me, getting the mania (which can mimic SD) under control was the biggest help. There were times that I had agitated depression or mixed states that were made worse by antidepressants but responded really well to an anti-psychotic so if your doc is trying the antidepressant route and it's not working it may be time to try a different approach.

I guess my advice is to make sure to read some of the better books [Ellen Frank's Treating Bipolar Disorder] (http://www.amazon.com/Treating-Bipolar-Disorder-Clinicians-Interpersonal/dp/159385465X) and [The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Bipolar-Disorder-Survival-Guide/dp/1572305258) and making sure your doc is following those guidelines. Also a course in DBT was super valuable for me. It gave me some coping strategies that got me through the worst of it till we could get my symptoms under control.

So many docs don't pay enough attention to research and make decisions on how to treat based on their patients experience which sounds good in theory but in reality patients are unreliable sources of information. They're biased and subject to the placebo effect and event he best doctors aren't very good at sifting the valid evidence from the invalid that way.

Find someone who is evidence based. I really wish you the best of luck and please message me if you need someone to listen. I've been there and I'm proof that it can get better.