It's What You Do With It That Counts
Published: Wed, 11/04/15
Hi ,
How's it going for you today?
I hope it's a good day for you.
So many people have problems, especially
people who have bipolar disorder and
their supporters.
Not that they're a special population, or
anything like that, but anyone with a mental
illness and their supporter have a difficult
time with things.
They not only have to cope with the every
day problems that other people have to cope
with, but they also have to cope with the added
problems that bipolar disorder brings with it,
both for the survivor and for the supporter.
And the problems that it brings to their
relationship, to a job situation, family, etc.
It's not an easy thing, living with bipolar disorder.
Or living with someone who has the disorder.
But, like I say in my courses/systems, it's not
the fact that you (or your loved one) have
bipolar disorder, it's what you do with it that
counts.
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Even at the worst of it.
I know someone who has bipolar disorder
and her sister had it as well.
These two women were like twins, even
though they were several years apart, but
that's how close they were.
However, one of the women went off her
bipolar medication, went into a bipolar episode,
and ended up taking her own life.
The other sister, the one who had stayed on
her medication, was devastated!
She went into a deep, deep depression, although
not a full-blown bipolar depressive episode (she
thinks only because she stayed on her bipolar
medication), because she was so sad over her
sister killing herself.
She had a real hard time coming to terms with
her sister's suicide.
It took years for her to find peace with it.
At first, she felt angry with her sister for doing
what she did.
Then she felt angry at the bipolar itself, for giving
her sister the irrational thoughts that caused her
to kill herself.
That helped her find more peace with it.
She understood that her sister would not have
done what she did if she had not gone off her
medication.
So what did she do?
She had a blog for people with bipolar disorder.
She used that blog to tell her sister's story, and
to encourage people with bipolar NOT to go off
their medication!
And every year after that, on her sister's birthday
and death day, she repeated the story, again begging
people with the disorder not to go off their medication.
So what she thought was that "it's what you do with
it that counts," and she was going to use her sister's
suicide for good.
She was going to keep telling her story so that other
people wouldn't do the same thing that her sister
had done.
She would keep telling it in the hopes that it would
save someone else's life.
She would use what had hurt her so deeply to try
to do some good for someone else with bipolar disorder.
She still does this today.
At her sister's every birthday and death day, this
woman gets on her blog and makes the same plea,
for people with bipolar disorder to stay on their
medications so that they won't go into an episode
and kill themselves like her sister did.
And she's doing a lot of good!
So it just goes to show you that good can come out
of bad – it's just what you do with it that counts.
What about you?
What are you doing with your bipolar situation?
Are you just dwelling on the negative?
Or are you trying to make the best out of a negative
situation?
You need to try to use your negative for good.
You need to be a good influence on other people
with bipolar and their supporters.
What do you think?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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