i have been struggling successfully w/mental issues (schizophrenia & bipolar disorder)for 40 years.it runs in the family & is inherited from generation to generation. what actually healed me, though i still have to take my medications (because of chemical imbalance in the brain that is causing it), was in the POWER of the LIVING WORD & PRAYERS (mine & others). the LIVING WORD (JESUS)& the ROSARY as my family's routine PRAYER everyday as catholics has PROTECTED mine & another's life (whom i had to protect) during those DARK & DANGEROUS YEARS of MARTIAL LAW in the philippine(1972-1986). i got sick in 1980 because at age 24, i was bearing all the responsibilities as a student in my mind ( my dad lost his job & has to be operated on his heart through a bypass open heart surgery, the power behind financial deb t & death threats as a social activist for radical change, stress from dental school to do good or even excel in it-it was 1 of the 2 most prestigious dental schools in the philippines & had to be cautious in going home late at night due to rampant criminality in our neighborhood- i have solved this by learniing martial arts