Sad News Story and What it has to do with Bipolar
Published: Wed, 05/05/10
Hi ,
How's it going?
Hope you are doing well.
I'm not doing so well after what I just
saw.
I am watching the news, and I just saw
a story that made me sick.
There was a candle lit in an apartment
building, and several children in the
apartment.
The parents stepped out for a moment,
and during that time the candle caught
the entire apartment on fire.
Without going into details the results
were tragic.
And it only took one small candle for it
to all light up in flames.
Sometimes that's the way it is with
bipolar disorder, too.
Sometimes it only takes one little thing
to make everything go wrong.
One little candle, so to speak.
And the results can sometimes be tragic.
There was one lady, lets call her Susan,
who got her first paycheck after starting
a new job.
This was significant because this was the
first time she had been able to work since
being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
But the concept of having money threw
her into a manic episode.
She spent all of her money on things she
didn't need.
She got so focused on her grand plans to
go back to school and on studying for it
that she forgot to go to work one day and
got fired.
She lost her apartment, and had no one to
turn to for a place to live.
She got frustrated and went off of her
medications because she believed that
they weren't working since she was in an
episode.
After going off of her medications, she
became chronically unstable, and her
disorder proceeded to ruin her entire life.
All because she hadn't braced herself for
what it would be like to get that first
paycheck.
If she had predicted that there would be
problems, then she could have had a
supporter help her manage the money.
Her supporters could have checked up
on her directly following that to make
sure that she was still following her
treatment plan and going to work.
She could have mentally braced herself
for the fact that the money she was getting
needed to go for specific things and she
could only have, say, five dollars for
spending money.
All of this could have been avoided if
she and her supporters had realized that
this small thing would make a big
difference.
I heard a story once, almost a fairy tale.
"For want of a nail the horseshoe was
lost.
For want of a horseshoe the horse was
lost.
For want of the horse, the rider was lost.
For want of the rider, the battle was lost.
For losing the battle, the war was lost.
For losing the war, the kingdom was
lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail."
It's amazing how something so small
can affect something so big, isn't it?
So when you are helping to make your
loved one's recovery plan, one thing you
need to take into consideration is how the
little things will affect your loved one.
Ask yourself, if they make this
accomplishment, how might it affect them?
If your answer is that it could affect them
in a bad way, or that you are not sure,
then you need to do what you can to take
precautions just in case.
After all, you wouldn't want that little
thing to set off a series of bad things.
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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