Bipolar: The WORST Thing You Can Do
Published: Sun, 12/09/12
Hi ,
How's it going for you today?
I hope it's a good day for you.
Today I wanted to talk to you about:
The WORST thing you can do about bipolar
disorder.
And that is NOTHING.
That's right, the worst thing you can do about
bipolar disorder is nothing.
Even if you do accept that you or your loved one
has bipolar disorder (which is hard enough to do
in itself), if you do nothing about it, there's no chance
for stability.
There are just certain things you MUST do to attain
stability with bipolar disorder.
You cannot simply do NOTHING!
It's the same with life.
If you graduate with a high school diploma, yet learn
nothing else, you'll never go anywhere in life.
I'm not saying you then have to get a college degree,
but you still have to learn - you at least have to get trained
in a trade, or else you'll have to work in fast food for
the rest of your life.
When you get married and want to have children, but learn
nothing about being a parent, you will have more problems
than you can handle.
You at least need to learn something about being a
parent to be a good one.
You must learn something about children in order to
raise them.
If you want to be in a healthy relationship, then you
have to learn how to be a good partner.
If you've had bad relationships in the past, then you have
to learn from them.
If you do nothing, you'll just keep repeating the same
mistakes over and over again, and you'll never have a
good relationship.
It's the same with life lessons.
If you've made bad choices and poor decisions in the past
and didn't learn the lessons you needed to in order to learn
from them, then nothing changes.
If you do nothing about them, you'll just keep making the
same mistakes over and over again.
You need to grow and learn from your mistakes, but if you
do nothing, you won't.
There is a saying that goes, "If nothing changes, nothing
changes."
So, it's the same with bipolar disorder.
If you do nothing, you'll stay unstable.
If you're a supporter and you do nothing, your loved one
will stay unstable, because there's a lot you do to help them
manage their disorder.
You may not like the way things are, but if you do nothing
to change them, then they'll just stay the way they are.
You can't expect them to change by themselves.
Here's an excerpt from a reading a friend showed me, and
I think it relates to what I'm talking about:
"...unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot
be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs
to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed
in me and in my attitudes."
We can learn a lot from that.
For instance, you can't change the world.
You may not even be able to change your circumstances,
but you might be able to if you try.
But if you do nothing, how will you ever know?
You can't change the fact that you or your loved one has
bipolar disorder.
But you can change the fact that there is no cure for it just
by learning how to manage it.
If you do nothing, then the disorder is in control over you.
If you do something, then you are in control over it.
You can't do anything about what's already happened.
You can't change the past. But you can do something about
today.
But if you do nothing to change today, it will be just like
the past that you can't do anything about. You can make
today better, but not if you do nothing.
If you find that your attitude is negative, and you do nothing
about it, it will affect everything you do - your thoughts,
your feelings, your actions, your reactions, your behavior
towards yourself and others.
You can change your attitude if you want to, but not if you
do nothing.
If you or your loved one with bipolar disorder are depressed
and you do nothing about it, you are going to stay depressed.
But you can change that by changing your attitude to a more
positive one as well.
In my courses/systems, I talk about what you can do to
change your attitude from negative to positive, and how
important that is to good management of bipolar disorder:
SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11
SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com
HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net
You may not be able to change your loved one, but
you can change yourself.
But if you do nothing, you will still stay the same.
And all of us need to be constantly growing, constantly
changing, to better ourselves.
And this especially relates to bipolar disorder.
If you are a supporter, you definitely want your loved
one to get better.
You want them to be stable, but if they do nothing,
they'll never be stable.
If they don't do the things they need to do to be stable,
like if they don't watch their triggers, they'll stay unstable.
And if you don't help them to watch for signs and
symptoms of an oncoming bipolar episode, then they
won't ever reach stability.
And here is the worst of the worst:
If you or your loved one see signs or symptoms of an episode
and do nothing - if you don't report them to the doctor or
psychiatrist, say, then your loved one WILL go into that episode.
Do NOTHING, and you might lose EVERYTHING.
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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