Bipolar Disorder Milestones

Published: Wed, 02/10/10

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Hi ,

How are you today?

I hope you have a good day.

You know, in everyone's life
there are milestones - those
events that mark time or progress
in something.

For example, your first milestone
was, as a toddler, learning to talk.

Then walking was probably your
next milestone.

Then maybe your next milestone
was just getting through adolescence
(which is a job in itself).

A milestone in adolescence might
have been getting your first
girlfriend/boyfriend.

Another milestone might be getting
your first job.

Then your first car.

Then your first apartment.

Then (maybe) your first credit card.

These are all milestones to becoming
an adult.

Then when you're a young adult,
a milestone might be getting engaged,
and another one the wedding itself.

Then come children.

Many parents think just getting
through the "terrible twos" is a
milestone in itself.

You should also have milestones
to cross at work, if you plan to
get ahead.

You might work as a stock boy
in a grocery store...

Then your next milestone might
be a clerk, then head clerk, etc.

Milestones are goals that we set
for ourselves.

In my courses/systems, I talk
about setting short-term and
long-term goals.

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You may set a long-term goal,
and the milestones are the short-
term goals you have to reach to
get there.

That goes for bipolar disorder
as well as in life in general.

Your loved one's first milestone
was probably just accepting the
diagnosis of bipolar disorder.

For many people, this is a very
hard task.

But once they accept it, they can
go on to other milestones.

For example, getting used to taking
their medication (without complaining).

Or finally finding that right
combinations of medications
could be a milestone.

Finding the right professionals is
another milestone your loved one
will have to reach on their way to
stability.

Your loved one's learning how to
communicate their needs to you
might be a milestone.

Going to a bipolar support group
could be another milestone.

Then charting their progress on the
way...

There will be several more milestones
before they reach stability.

Hopefully, the medication will
make this easier.

Sometimes getting over the side
effect hurdle from their medication
is a milestone.

And especially having the right
medical and mental health
professionals.

They will have milestones to
cross in therapy alone.



So they will have professional
or business milestones.

They will have financial
milestones to cross if they go
on disability, because it's hard
to live on that limited income,
and some spending habits will
have to change.

And also personal milestones
to cross along the way.

Getting through a bad bipolar
episode is a milestone.

But once they cross their bipolar
milestones, the result is stability.

And that is the result you're
looking and waiting for.

Even you, as a supporter of a
loved one with bipolar disorder,
will have to cross milestones.

Can you think of what some of
those would be?

What are some milestones you
have already crossed?


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Well, I have to go!

Your Friend,

Dave

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