I would just like to say thank you for making the medications available, it had been a life-changing experience. I know that you understand the impact of the vitamins, after seeing the results first hand, but after dealing with the disease I have nothing but the utmost respect for you, as well as overwhelming thanks after what you have indirectly done for my life. With that said, it is time for the testimonial part.

My name is Brandon Appelhans. When bipolar first came to impact me, I was in ninth grade. I came home on a day in September to find that my Uncle was struck into a depression by a disease that he had called bipolar. it was not long before the full impact of the disease was felt. He had nothing left, and as measure of offering, my parents offered to move him up to Colorado and let him live in our house.  The idea that I had the same gene that my uncle did never crossed my mind. He moved out a few months later, in about February after getting some of the help he needed, but we were not done with the disease.

In June of the same year, I took a trip to England, came back and only a week later my parents took me to Washington DC. I thought that this was the best that life was ever going to be, but that was before we left. I came back from the capitol with my depression in full swing. I isolated myself to my room and he basement where my drums were for the rest of the summer. I depended on my drums to give me an up, and cried the pains away in my room.

In August my parents knew that something was wrong after the symptoms had continued for a number of months. Only a matter of days later, I found myself in the offices of a psychologist and a psychiatrist. After only one visit and a consultation of the family history, I was diagnosed with rapid-cycling bipolar disorder. At the time I was cycling three to four times a day between bipolar, manic, and the blissful in between, making me a very hard person to live with. At random times I would loose my temper over the slightest things, and during mania, I would run as quick as the wind to accomplish nothing. Life was horrible.

Over the next twelve months I tried seven medications, with variations on the combinations during the entire time. During that year in school, I went from being an honor roll student, to for all practical reasons flunking out of the tenth grade. Few of the medications worked, and of those that did, all had tremendous side-effects. For example, I have always been able to remember my homework, but for an entire year, I could not remember if I had been to class, much less the homework that had been assigned, or whether it was going to be due soon. After being dependent on my memory for so long, missing it was devastating.

Finally in August before starting my Junior year of college I found some medications that I could deal with. They were by no means good, but I was not going over the deep end. I still had lost a great deal of my memory, but I had some of it back, and after a year of my short term memory vacationing, it came back with the post vacation blues. I managed to get some of the classes that I had missed in tenth grade out of the way in my Junior year, and thankfully, I was able to get back into high school music.

Finally during the second semester of my junior year, my father approached me about a newspaper article that he had found about a girl in Denver that had been "cured" of bipolar with a vitamin mineral complex. With my medications being only marginal in performance, I thought that we would give this thing a shot. My parents called my psychiatrist and asked if he could be the local doctor to look over me during the time that I was going to be a lab-rat for the new pill. After that we called the man who had been in charge of the pill at the time, a man named Vern.

He told me that I was going to have to fill out surveys every day, and that I was going to have to work with both he and my psychiatrist on the matter. With the two doctors in the picture, we began testing.

In July of that year, I had come off of all of the medications that I had previously been on, and had embraced this new program. My life had a new tune to march to.

The Depression:	Gone
The Side Effects:	Gone
The Visits to the doctors:	Gone
The mood:	Outright blissful

Then things changed, the group that was making the vitamins, which was a based in Utah, changed the formula to cut costs and boost profits. It was then that I changed to Quiet Minds.   Since things are different.

Depression is only a word in a dictionary now.

Side Effects are no longer an issue

The Mood even better

The pill taking: Impressed my friends because by now it was habit to take them eight at a time.

Now it has been about a year since going onto the Quiet Minds system, and my life has changed immensely. Now I have no problems with my memory and have taken back my life. I am now an eighteen year old sophomore at CSU in Fort Collins, CO, and have made other changes also. I have begun working again, now two jobs to pay for my musical habits. I have maintained good grades in school, and started my own business.

My life is better than it has ever been, and because of Quiet Minds, it gets better day by day. I was always told that "your attitude determines your altitude!" but that is hard to see when it is impossible to have a good attitude. Now I have changed to become a positive person, with positive goals, moving in a positive direction.  Life gets better every day because I know that the future, if I work today, becomes brighter every with every motion.

With that said I just want to thank Quiet Minds again for blessing my life with the will to live. Nothing is the same, and daily I am thankful that everything has changed. It is wonderful to work with you, and I am endlessly appreciative of your work.


Thanks again,

Brandon Appelhans