Snowballs and Bipolar Disorder
Published: Wed, 05/19/10
Hi ,
How's it going?
I hope you're having a good day.
I want you to think about a snowman.
It doesn't start off that big, does it?
It starts off as a small snowball.
Then you roll it and roll it and roll it
and the next thing you know you've
got this big ball that becomes a
snowman.
Now, I'm not a liar.
Why am I not a liar, and what does
that have to do with snowballs and
snowmen?
I choose not to lie, because you
start off with one small lie, and
before you know it, you're telling
other lies to cover up that one small
lie and it all blossoms until you've
got a huge lie going on, just like
how that one little snowball becomes
that great big snowman.
It's the little things that make up the
big things.
But if they're caught right in the
beginning, they don't have a chance
to grow so big.
What does all this have to do with
bipolar disorder?
It's like I teach in my courses/systems.
You need to take care of the little
things.
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Your loved one doesn't just wake up
one morning and all of a sudden
they're in a bipolar episode.
It just doesn't happen that way,
any more than a snowman just
builds itself.
A bipolar episode is made up of a
bunch of smaller things that happen
over a period of time.
So let's talk about that.
Let's say that your loved one decides
they don't like taking their medication.
They don't want to take it any more.
But they've heard the scare stories
about what happens if you go off
your medication completely.
So they just take it sometimes, and
not other times.
They just start skipping some doses.
Or they take some of their medication,
but not others.
And let's say that they start missing
some of their appointments.
They're supposed to go to see their
therapist every week.
But they start going every 2 weeks.
Then every 3 weeks.
And they're supposed to go to see
their psychiatrist every 2 months.
But they skip an appointment.
So now it's been 4 months since
they've seen their psychiatrist.
And they used to go to their
bipolar support group every month.
But they haven't gone for the past
few months.
And they haven't talked to anyone
from the support group, either.
Not like they used to.
So they've been pretty isolated.
They don't go out with any of their
friends, either, which they used to do.
They basically just stay at home.
And even at home they really don't
do much of anything.
They don't even go to their volunteer
job any more.
The phone calls stop coming.
They get more and more depressed.
Can you see how this has "snowballed?"
They didn't just wake up depressed one
day.
It was made up of a lot of little things that
happened over time.
But the next thing you know, they are in
a bipolar depressive episode.
Can you see how easily this could happen?
Has this ever happened to your loved one?
How did it happen to them?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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