Wrong Way to Save Money with Bipolar
Published: Tue, 02/28/12
Hi ,
How are you doing today?
I hope you're doing good.
Pretty much everyone is concerned about
saving money these days.
I know the economy is supposed to be on the
upturn, but that doesn't necessarily trickle
down to "everyman," does it?
It still seems as though everyone is still
struggling to make ends meet.
Especially those people who are trying to cope
and deal with bipolar disorder.
The other day I was talking to someone who has
bipolar disorder and he was telling me how he
was saving money by cutting his medication.
He was actually sort of vague about what cutting
his medication meant exactly.
It could have meant that he was taking it every
other day or that he was taking it in half doses, he
wasn't exactly clear (he said both to me).
His reason was that it was too expensive.
But playing around with your bipolar medication
can be so very dangerous, and I told him so, just like
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I actually told him that he was crazy!
I know that may not exactly be politically correct,
but I just got so upset about what he was doing!
I also told him that even though he thought he was
saving money by doing what he was doing, that he
would actually cost himself more money in the long
run.
He looked at me like I was crazy and even called
me crazy!
I explained how ultimately he was not that stable
and he was adversely affecting his job not being
stable.
So the savings that he saved from the medication
was lost in the money he lost when he couldn't
work!
I think that he finally listened to that.
It actually makes sense when you look at it that
way.
Your loved one may think that they're saving money
the way that this guy did, but they're actually not.
It's the WRONG way to save money with their
bipolar disorder.
And it can ultimately hurt them so much more in the
long run.
Instability costs you so much more money.
Look at how much money it will cost this guy I was
telling you about.
For example...
When he does want to fix his medication situation, he
will have to have help, obviously.
And the psychiatrist will need to either put him on
perhaps another starter dose of the medication,
needing more medication, or even a different medication
to get him stabilized again.
And that can actually end up costing him MORE
money for more medication.
And more visits to the psychiatrist as well, while he is
trying to get stabilized on that medication.
Whereas, like for your loved one...
If they stay on their medication...
They will actually SAVE money if they don't mess
with it, because they won't have to pay more for more
medications...
And they'll be able to stay on their present schedule
of seeing their psychiatrist and won't have to see
them more often (costing more for more visits).
Then they'll be saving money in the right way with
their bipolar disorder, and not in the wrong way, like
this guy I was telling you about in the beginning of
this email.
So actually, there is a right way and a wrong way to
save money with bipolar disorder.
And the right way is to definitely NOT mess with
your medication.
You really want to stay stable, as you will save more
money in the long run when you're stable.
Like I was saying, because you won't have to see the
psychiatrist as much for management of medications,
for one thing.
But you also save the cost of therapist visits as well,
for another thing, because you're stable, and don't
need as many visits as often.
In other words, stability is just not as costly as instability
is.
And you can save money by being stable.
What do you think?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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