Cooking Utensils and Bipolar Disorder
Published: Fri, 08/27/10
Hi ,
How's it going?
Hope you are doing well.
Have you ever heard the phrase "Make do
with what you have"?
Well, for some people this has to be taken
in a very literal way.
I heard a story at one point of someone
who was living in a homeless shelter.
All they had to use was plastic utensils,
and they didn't always have a full set of
those, either.
Sometimes they had to stir coffee with a
knife because they didn't have a spoon,
or spread butter with a fork because they
didn't have a knife.
Sometimes they had to grab something
hot with a towel, blanket, or a bunch of
napkins, because they didn't have any
hot pad holders.
Sometimes they had to cook pancakes in
muffin pans, because someone else was
using the pan.
Sometimes they had to boil stuff in the
microwave because the stove was already
being used.
But they didn't let any of that get them
down.
They kept pressing on, until they got to the
point that they could get themselves out of
the mess they were in.
Sometimes people who have bipolar
disorder and their supporters also have to
make do with what they have.
If you are a supporter, this might mean
that you have to make do with the amount
of patience you have been granted.
You need to recognize when you've
reached your limit, and when you need to
ask for help.
You also need to recognize when you can
keep going on, no matter how hard it may
seem.
This might also mean that you have to
make do with the coping skills that you
currently have.
Now, this doesn't mean that you shouldn't
learn more.
In fact, you should always be looking to
learn more coping skills, and to share the
ones you know.
But while you are still learning the new
ones, you need to manage with the ones
you already had.
Sometimes this can be hard, especially if
you didn't have adequate coping skills to
begin with.
But each of us has to deal with the hand we
have been given.
And each of us needs to learn to move
past the hand we have been given and
make our own life in this world.
It seems a little contradictory, but both
sides are true.
Does this make sense to you?
If you have bipolar disorder, making do
with what you have looks a little bit
different.
It means learning to cope with your
bipolar disorder, and learning to get to
the point where it doesn't hold you back.
This means that you have to accept your
bipolar at some point so that you can
learn to cope with it.
If you never accept it, you'll never be able
to move on.
Regardless of whether you are a person
who has bipolar disorder or their supporter,
in the battle against bipolar you need to
make do with what you have.
What ways do you think you could make
do until you can make things better?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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