Health & Wellness
Her husband felt helpless. He had found the best dual diagnosis treatment center for his wife who he thought was depressed and maybe had an addiction to alcohol. It seemed to work for awhile, but the issues always had a way of creeping back in...
A woman in her 30's with two young children came to Maui Intensives following two months in a treatment center for depression and alcohol abuse. Her husband asked for a referral for an individual intensive program. This woman was withdrawn and seemed content to have her husband speak for her. At the treatment center, she was diagnosed with PMS as PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder). Also, in treatment she had uncovered memories of an incident of sexual molestation that happened to her as a child. She had never told her parents for fear of getting in trouble. Like so many, she felt guilty and ashamed even though she knew it wasn't her fault. The combination of strategic dietary changes a personal exercise program, learning meditation, trauma resolution therapy, and collaboration with a Chinese medicine practitioner to treat the hormonal imbalance provided dramatic positive results for this woman and her family. She no longer desired to drink alcohol as her system came into balance.
Her psychiatrist said she was bipolar and put her on several medications including one for sleep...
Her family relocated to a different state at the start of her senior year causing her to have to break up with her boyfriend of two years— her first love. A psychiatrist diagnosed her with bipolar and prescribed her medication, but it didn’t seem to be helping. Her parents heard about Maui Intensives and asked if two weeks would be enough to help her. There were three major problems: the pain of abruptly ending a love relationship, the stress and anxiety of moving, and a teen-ager and her parents who didn't realize how poorly she was eating. She was fatigued, irritable, and lacked motivation. Fortunately, she was willing to do a one week experiment. Instead of drinking coffee and soda all day at school, then eating ice cream when she came home starving and skipping dinner because she was full from ice cream, she agreed to eat three predetermined healthy meals at meal time each day for seven days in a row. The bipolar symptoms disappeared. She also had the time she needed during her Intensive to talk openly about and accept the big changes that had occurred in her life. Her parents agreed to let her boyfriend visit her. She agreed to continue balanced eating and exercise along with making an effort to meet new people.