XPost: sci.med.psychobiology, soc.support.depression.manic, alt.   
   upport.depression.manic   
   XPost: alt.support.schizoaffective   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   My low years (low in terms of creativity and in terms of delusion)   
   began on Jan. 29, 1996.   The first 1.5 years were the worst   
   partly because I was still drinking 1--9 days before full moon,   
   and since I have kept my drinking outside that time period   
   I have had no alcohol triggered or alcohol worsened   
   mixed/psychotic episodes.   Furthermore an addition of   
   a topup of olanzapine to my lithium reduced problems even   
   more.   
      
   Based on a comparison to past figures and an analysis of the   
   sunspot cycle I expected the low years to last seven years   
   and end in early 2003.   However that did not occur and   
   the low years have now lasted nearly 16 years.  I think   
   I have had to go so long because I have had access to   
   modern medicine.   The longest similar period of a past   
   figure I have come across is the exile of Rama to the   
   forest for 14 years so I speculate that he had access to   
   the Hindu antipsychotic root that someone mentioned to   
   me once on I think misc.health.alternative .   
      
   If the sunspot cycle has to line up with my sun stare of   
   1991 then my low years might have to last until late   
   2013 or early 2014 for a total of 18 years.  But I am   
   hoping that the low years will end sooner, with a   
   renewal of my creativity and a diminishment of delusion.   
      
   All of this is discussed in more detail on my   
   Salmon on the Thorns web page (see below).   
      
   --   
   David Dalton  dalton@nfld.com   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music   
   http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
      "Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)