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Lu was diagnosed as a teenager with Manic Depressive Disorder (now called Bipolar Disorder). She experienced a lot of destructive behavior that affected her ability to work and her ability to provide basic needs for herself and her children.
Through the years of her illness, family doctors and psychiatrists prescribed various medications. “They would give me all different kinds of pills,” Lu says, “and they would work for awhile, but then they would just stop working…” After awhile, Lu decided that she had had enough, and she went off of all her medications and decided she wasn’t going to live anymore.
Some friends who had read about EMPowerplus in the Edmonton Journal approached Truehope on Lu’s behalf. Lu says the only reason she even agreed to start taking EMPowerplus was to get her friends off of her back. Her attitude at that time was, “I [will] take it for six weeks and when it [doesn’t] work, they can leave me alone and I [can] finish doing what I [am] going to do [end my life].”
At the end of the six week period, Lu said, “I could feel something different in my life… I wasn’t quite so hopeless… I was still not willing to admit, though, that this stuff was helping… [but] I decided I was going to just try it just a little bit longer…”
The healing came gradually for Lu. She says, “The healing just seemed to kind of flow in… I wished that it would have just happened over night, but it didn’t, it made me appreciate it more... When I started to feel healthy, I couldn’t believe that I could actually feel that way…that it was real for me—like that I could feel like I was normal, like I could function, like I could take care of myself, I could take care of my family, I could work without a problem.”
For a time after Lu’s recovery, she stopped taking EMPowerplus and some of her symptoms returned. Lu says, “I got back on the vitamins and within a month / month and a half I was feeling fantastic again… I can’t imagine life without [EMPowerplus] now… There is no existence for me without [it], none.”
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