Bipolar: It’s Your Choice
Published: Fri, 08/24/12
Hi ,
How are things going for you?
I hope you're doing well today.
You know, lately I've been thinking a lot about
choices.
It's because I've been helping a friend of mine.
She's a single mom.
And she had her daughter when she was a teenager.
She doesn't regret having her daughter, because she
loves her very much.
But she does regret having had sex at such a young
age.
She does feel that was a bad choice that she made, and
that she should have made a better one.
See...
You could kind of look at it like that we're made up
of the choices that we make.
Because every choice we make affects our future.
And even as we can enjoy the results of good choices
that we make...
We have to pay consequences for bad choices that
we make as well.
What about you?
Do you have any regrets?
Have you made any bad choices in your past?
I think we all have.
Like when we're young and impulsive.
That's when we make a lot of our bad choices.
Like my friend who became a single mom as a
teenager.
Or like many young people who drive recklessly and
get into car accidents.
Or who abuse drugs and alcohol.
That's like the impulsiveness of a person with bipolar
disorder who is in a manic episode.
I talk about the impulsivity associated with bipolar
disorder in my courses/systems below:
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So if you were ever impulsive when you were young
and made bad decisions...
You might be able to better understand how your loved
one gets impulsive during a manic episode and makes
bad decisions, too.
It's not because they mean to do it.
It's because when they're in a manic episode...
The bipolar kind of "takes over" and impulsivity is one
of the results.
Then they lose control.
And they make bad choices because of it.
Like:
- Excessive spending
- Reckless driving
- Compulsive gambling
- Impulsive behavior
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Sexual impropriety
- Financial mismanagement
- Foolish business ventures
- Etc.
These are all bad choices, but they make them
because they're in a manic episode.
But just because you understand WHY they make
the choices that they make...
Doesn't mean that you should just excuse what they
do during that episode.
As I said earlier, there are still consequences that we
have to pay for bad choices that we make.
Everyone has to, and just because your loved one was
in a manic episode when they made their bad choice
is no excuse to get out of the consequences.
For example, if they become impulsive and drive recklessly
and get in trouble with the law, the police aren't going to
let them get out of that ticket just because they're in a
manic episode.
So you should make them pay consequences for their other
bad choices that affect you as well.
What do you think?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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