Bipolar Disorder? Take the Bad With the Good
Published: Sat, 07/18/09
Hi ,
How are you doing?
I was thinking about a place where
I have found a bunch of people to
work for me.
Now I have found some terrible people
at this place but I have found some
of my very best people from this
place too.
For a while I started to think of the
place as a bad one and hated it.
Then I thought of all the good people
that I've gotten from this place.
It made me think of the expression,
"You have to take the good with the
bad."
In other words, what if I had condemned
this place, saying that I would never
go there again to get any more people
to work for me, just because I got some
bad people from it?
What if I focused only on the bad?
Then what if the very next person I
would have hired from there would have
been the best employee I ever would
have hired?
I really would have missed out on
something good just because I didn't
take the bad with the good.
Just because I judged something
without having all the facts.
Just because I was too quick to judge.
And just because I had a few bad
experiences, I could have decided to
hate the whole thing.
Many people with bipolar disorder
do the same thing that I started to
do.
They start focusing on the bad.
They don't take the bad with the good.
They condemn without getting all
the facts.
Or they even make decisions before
they consider all the choices, or all
the consequences.
Like the bad side effects from their bipolar
medications.
Instead of thinking that ok, there are
some bad side effects, but the medication
is good...
Or calling the doctor and telling him
about the bad side effects to see what
can be done...
They just jump right to wanting to go off
the medication.
And in my courses/systems, I talk about
how dangerous it is for you to do that,
and how important staying on medication is:
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Some people judge a doctor as a
bad doctor just because one time
he didn't call back in exactly 30
minutes.
Or maybe he kept you waiting
in the waiting room for an hour.
Or maybe you don't feel like he
treated you the way you expected
to be treated when he did see you, etc.
You have to take it all into account
before you condemn something or
someone in the medical or mental
health field.
Don't get me wrong, there are some
bad doctors, but you can't just jump
right in there and say that your
doctor is one because of one of
these reasons.
You have to take the bad with the
good.
Just like with the medications -
you can't condemn all bipolar
medications just because some
of them have some bad side effects.
You can't expect all medications
to work perfectly every time.
Medication isn't perfect.
But you have to take the bad with
the good, because you have to take
medication for your bipolar disorder.
You just have to work with your doctor.
But you can't expect your doctor to
be perfect all the time.
They aren't.
They have bad days just like you do,
and what if that day that you felt you
weren't treated exactly the way you
wanted to be treated was just a bad
day for them?
You have to take the bad with the good.
Just like what if I had expected this
source for finding people to work for
me to be perfect and to give me
absolutely perfect people every time?
And what if I stopped using them just
because they weren't perfect?
Have you learned to take the bad with
the good?
Can you give me an example of how
you had to apply this principle?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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