Bipolar Disorder - pros and cons

Bipolar Disorder is a medical condition which makes a sufferer swing between normal, hypomania, maniac, normal and depending. If you want to know more about bipolar disorder, refer to Wikipedia: Bipolar Disorder and list of people affected by bipolar disorder and also check out the list of famous people with bipolar disorder and you will see many creative and/or intelligent people there, so what is there to be ashame about it?

if you want to make public your disorder and will like to know why some people think bipolar has some very good (in fact great) cons (advantages) and that is why it may be good? to make public and not consider a stigma. However, it does not mean that there are some advantages of being bipolar, no one should try to make oneself bipolar even if that is possible. In fact, the bipolar disorder sufferer should try to maintain a normal state as far as humanly possible by whatever means. Other than medication, there are some who thinks that regular exercise can help. In any case, studies have shown how exercise have helped people with depression. Anyway, essentially the bipolar disorder patient should maintain a health lifestyle including getting enough sleep, exercise, good mental hygiene, healthy food etc and if necessary take the medications prescribed by doctors.

Turmeric may prevent dementia

Dementia (meaning "deprived of mind") is the progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the body beyond what might be expected from normal aging. It is suspected that the spread of amyloid protein plaques (a plaque consisting of tangles of amyloid protein in nervous tissue) together with the tangles of nerve fibers in the brain is the cause of dementia. Professor Murali Doraisamy of Duke Unviversity in North Carolina have found evidences that people who eat curry regularly (about 2 to 3 times a week) are less likely to develop dementia. Evidences showed that curcumin (from turmeric which is the main spice for curry) is likely to be the active ingredient. Curcumin binds to the plaques and dissolves them.

Clinical trial is now being conducted to test curcumin's effects on Alzheimer's patients at the University of California.

Source: Weekly curry 'may fight dementia'