Alternative therapy is becoming popular for treating all sorts of things, as people look to move away from tablets and hospitalsÌý - so could it be used for bipolar disorder?
Some patients say changing their diet, and having things like reflexology and acupuncture has really helped them.
But clinicians are a bit more sceptical, saying it might help to relax people, but there's no evidence it's a subistitute for mood stabiliser tablets and sti depressents.
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Stoke's Stuart George heard from someone with bipolar, a psychiatrist and then spoke to Sue Weller - an alternative therapist based at the Ishta centre in Stone…
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