text: There is an issue of selfmedicating, it is not a healthy form of treatment. I am bi-polar and from the many years of experience, all the drugs I have done has caused a degree of damage.\n  As for a natural way of relieving symptoms, well meditating helps sometimes, but what to do when it does not. I then self medicate. This is a cycle that all go through when they have bi polar. There is not one person that i have met who has not self medicated. Its a reaction to the panic. \n  A doctor once told me that i would have to take valium or like drugs for the rest of my life if I chose medication. After a near 15years, I have been on and off bezo's and in and out of rehab. \n  Good luck to us all on this wonderful burden that we carry in our lives. It is sad that our loved ones must wittness us going through this, but I also believe that it gives us a sight that others do not have,