Bipolar: Being a Positive Person
Published: Mon, 11/03/14
Hi,
How are you today?
I hope you're feeling fine.
Have you ever heard the
expression:
Today is the tomorrow that you worried
about yesterday.
I think it's a kind of funny way to look at
life.
Especially if you're a kind of negative person.
Because I'm just the opposite -
I'm a pretty positive person.
I'm always looking at the best case scenario in
every situation.
I kind of think you have to, although you still
have to be realistic at the same time, especially
when you're dealing with bipolar disorder.
But you just can't be one of those people
who are always worrying from day to day.
You know, like projecting from one day to the
next what might happen, before you even know.
And especially if you tend to think on the negative
side of things - that throws a bad slant to everything.
In my courses/systems, I talk about how you need
to be a positive thinker if you're dealing with bipolar
disorder :
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It just helps to look at things in a positive way when
you're dealing with bipolar disorder, because so
much of it can be negative to begin with.
But you don't have to worry all the time, either.
If you do, you're just going to set yourself up
for negative things to happen.
Because you're going to be looking for them.
Enough bad things are going to happen in life
all by themselves, but you don't have to help
them along.
To fight them, you have to think and act positively.
For example, when your loved one picks a fight
with you, which can be a normal occurrence when
you're dealing with the rage of a bipolar manic
episode, you can either react in a negative or a
positive manner, it's your choice.
If you react in a negative manner, though, it's just
going to prolong the fight.
But if you react in a positive manner, it might just
de-escalate your loved one's behavior.
So what I'm talking about are things that may be
inevitable, but that you can do something about just by
changing your attitude about them.
In other words, if you go around expecting bad things
to happen, they will.
You'd be a sort of magnet that bad things will be
attracted to.
But it can work the opposite way, too.
Like with people.
Have you ever noticed that negative people seem
to attract other negative people?
But that positive people tend to attract other positive
people?
It is like a magnet sort of thing.
Think of it this way:
Your positive attitude can help change a negative
situation.
Like the example I used of fighting with your loved
one.
When your loved one is negative, your being positive
can have that positive kind of influence on them.
After all, who wants to fight with someone who won't
fight back?
Now, I never said that having a positive attitude in the
face of a negative situation would be easy.
It isn't always that easy.
But it sure gets you further, and with a whole lot less
stress on you.
And, hopefully, eventually, it will turn things around for
you as well.
Hopefully, given time, your loved one will change, too.
Hopefully, they will begin to be more like you.
And hopefully, you will begin to experience more positive
situations than negative ones.
And, like I said, a lot less stress as a by-product as well.
Positive people just seem to be healthier, too.
Probably because they have less stress, they are physically
healthier.
What do you think?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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