Here is the current Bipolar Disorder news.

http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews322/

Here are some of the headlines:

The Physician’s Guide to Depression and Bipolar Disorders

TROY: Bipolar disorder’s role in Troy shooting case uncertain

Study: Anti-depressants little help in bipolar disorder

Mental health advocate pushes for change in criminal justice system

Missing Fosston teen is bipolar, hasn’t taken medication

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Need Money Because Of Bipolar Disorder?
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Your Friend,

Dave

Hi,

I have received a lot people writing me about the
Virginia Tech College Killer who killed 32 people–
Cho Seung-Hui.

If you are out of the US, you should know,
this is a big thing.
If you have no idea what I am talking about check
out cnn.com for more information about this.

People have asked, what I think he has. I don’t
know and I am NOT a doctor and don’t make diagnoses
but I would bet that he has something like
antisocial personality disorder.

“Crazy” is not a diagnosis. It will be interesting
to hear what he was diagnosed with but I am not sure
myself.

Anyway, there is a big bipolar disorder lesson to be learned
here.

I am going to tell you some harsh reality today.
It’s about the mental health system. The system
as I like to call it.

Here’s the real deal. This is the deal nobody is
going to tell you but me. The system does
a horrible job of keeping tracking of important
things.

What is the system? The system is everything that
goes along with mental health and your loved one.
It’s the doctors, therapists, hospitals, outpatient
programs, other programs, family members, etc.

Here’s the problem. If a person has a mental illness
over a long period of time, the system loses important
information. Files are lost. Doctors retire. Therapists
retire. The patient moves and new doctors and therapists
are needed. Along the way, 100% of the information is
NOT and I repeat NOT passed along.

So what happens is eventually some people have some
information but no one person has all the information.

You might be thinking, “What the heck is Dave talking
about…what information?” Information like how
the person is, suicide attempts, patterns of
manipulation, threats that were made against others,
ability to work, things that trigger episodes,
reasons for certain diagnoses, situations with
the police, actual violent acts committed, lies
told, the kind of
therapy that works for them, etc.

You might be wondering, “But doesn’t ever patient
have a file?” They are suppose to but what is
suppose to be and what really happens are many
times two different things.

Half the important information that my mom’s current
doctor needed was compiled by me David Oliver not
in her file. I have no idea why it was missing
from the file.

Also, remember there is the lazy factor. Many people
in the system are just too darn lazy to write stuff
up. They let it slide. You’re not going to believe
this but I have a friend, and I won’t tell you
which state, but he is a policeman. He use
to NOT pull over people because he didn’t want
to fill out any paperwork. It was easier to just
let people go so he could get home early.

This is very common. Many people don’t like paperwork,
and they don’t like to answer questions so if
they don’t write certain things or if they don’t
write anything at all, they, in their own minds,
get less hassle. Sad but true.

Let’s look at this example. I have a fairy
good friend who’s wife has bipolar disorder. I
have given him 80% of my materials and he hasn’t
gone through a thing. Why? Well because it’s free
so he devalued it but that’s another story
for another day.

I started telling him things he needs to look out
for with his wife. Everything I know about his
wife suggests she is totally out of control.

He screams, yells, takes her medication some time,
drinks, lies, manipulates, etc. etc. etc.

If you ask my friend if she is that bad, he says no.
At first I thought “well maybe she isn’t that bad.”

But then I got a call from another friend that gave me
the real deal. What his wife was really like. So I asked
him and he said “Well that stuff did happen but well
she isn’t that bad.”

Here’s the stuff that happen to him that he didn’t think
was so bad. She attacked him multiple times, she has cut
him where he has bleed, she drinks and then goes into
fits of rage, he has hit him over the head with a keyboard,
she has thrown a Sony Play Station at him, she has told
his kids terrible things, she has lied to relatives about
him, she doesn’t always take her medication, etc. etc.

I told my friend this was serious stuff. He said that
he knew but he thinks she will get better. I asked how?
If there is no plan, no strategy, how is she going to
get better.

THEN I ASKED THE MAGIC QUESTION

Does the system know all these things your wife did? He said
“well not really.” So the doctor knows NONE and I repeat
NONE of this. Why? Well he covers some of it up and his
wife is really manipulative. She puts on a great show
during doctor visits.

Well, at one point it got so bad that he asked me for some
help. He said he couldn’t talk to the doctor because of
the privacy laws, laws which I have at least 7 LEGAL
ways around. So I advised him out to get around the laws,
legally (PLEASE NOTE, I AM NOT AN ATTORNEY AND DON’T OFFER
LEGAL ADVICE).

Finally the doctor learned SOME of what was going on. Guess
what? The police don’t know he was cut by her more than once.
Guess what? He doesn’t know her history BEFORE he met
her. So right now, there are tons of gaps, of information
because……..

NOBODY IS CONNECTING ALL THE DOTS

Again, I know very little about the Virginia Tech Killer,
but I am pretty sure it will come out that this person knew
this, that person knew that, his family knew this, this doctor
knew that, this therapist knew this, this counselor knew this,
his roommates knew this, the police knew this, etc. etc. but
NOBODY connected all the dots.

Here’s the lesson for you and read this carefully if you are
a supporter. It’s YOUR job to connect the doctors for everyone
because NOBODY is going to do it but you. In my course,
I go into this at length on how to do this and how to connect
the dots fast so you can get it all done in the 15 to 20 minutes
doctors allot for treatment.

Check it out:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com/

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net/

Well I have to run, catch you tomorrow.

Your Friend,

Dave

P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/

P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.
http://bipolarcentral.libsyn.com/

Hi,

Well it looks like everything is moving along nicely
with my mom and her second episode. Basically
in about 10 days or so she went from doing well
to going into a manic episode. That’s all it
took. I didn’t even really know that was possible.

Actually on this note, someone wrote me via email
and said I act like I know everything. Actually
that person is completely wrong. Unlike most
people I believe I don’t know everything and that’s
why I am constantly learning new stuff related
to this disorder.

The person commented that I act as if, my courses/
systems are perfect and I am all knowing. First,
let me say, if you are going to get my courses/systems.

These:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com/

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net/

And you are doing so, because you think EVERY single
answer to ALL situations and problems with bipolar disorder
is perfectly explained, analyzed and covered, please
don’t get them. Don’t do it. Because if you are thinking
this, it’s not true. With my courses/systems, my emails,
podcasts, articles, etc. I simply try to talk about
things that I think are important and do work well.

BUT, bipolar disorder is indeed a formidable enemy.
Sometimes things come up you just don’t know could
have come up. When this happens, you make decisions
based on all the information in your head. You see
there are certain things that are in my head. I know
a ton of strategies and when my mom went into this
most recent episode, I was able to create a number
of custom strategies for the current situation.

For example no where in any of my bipolar courses/
systems do I talk about a patient undoing a medical
release and you not being informed. That’s what happen
to me and it made it initially very hard to communicate
with my mom’s treatment team. BUT, I used 3 counter
strategies to get around this problem.

I hope this all makes sense? I guess what I am saying
is you get as much information as you can, then you
try to make the best decisions based on the information
you have. If you aren’t moving in the right direction then
try another strategy or get more information and try
another strategy.

Now, the big secret to controlling destructive bipolar
episodes is being proactive. Back in the day, nobody
in my family would ever address my mom’s bipolar disorder.
If my mom started going into an episode, NOBODY did
anything. Nothing. My mom could be screaming, yelling,
spending all the money and nobody said or did anything.

As I kid, I was conditioned to ignore it. Actually I never
even know what my mom had. We just didn’t talk about it.

As a result of this appeasement philosophy or do nothing
episodes that should have been quick and small turned
into huge descriptive episodes.

Today, when we see something, we take massive AND immediate
action right away. No waiting. This is why, with my mom’s
most current episode there was little to no damage done
because of all the systems in place and the first we
took massive and immediate action to get her back on
track.

Dave

P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/

P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.
http://bipolarcentral.libsyn.com/

Hi,

As you know in the US it’s tax time. I wanted to write
a quick email to help those out there that have
tax and d.ebt problems because of bipolar disorder.

You may know already, but if you don’t know, when
my mom went into her super manic episode in 2004
through 2005, she didn’t pay any taxes. When I was
called in by my dad to help with my mom not only
did I get all of her bills which were 5 feet
in diameter and 3 inches high on her bedroom
floor, I also found out she didn’t pay any taxes.

The first thing I did was look at all the bills.
She had MASSIVE d.ebt. Over $30,000. I made a list
of each bill on one line on paper. I filled 5 sheets
of yellow legal notepad paper. There was a ton.

Then eventually I saw all the letters from the good
old Internal Revenue Service. At first I got
really worried because they were rather mean and nasty
letters.

Before I did anything else I bought ever book there
was on d.ebt, tax problems and called me accountant,
people who were accountants and other financial people.

In 2 days I put together a plan. My plan on how ANYONE
can get out of d.ebt is found here:

http://www.bipolarcentral.com/debtletter

As for the tax problems, I decided to call the IRS and
explain my mom was really, really sick. I asked to meet
with them and also to fax information on her illness
and which hospital she was in.

I decided to call the IRS help line at:
1-800-829-1040

At first they were like “too bad so sad, we want the
money NOW!”

The hassled me because they wanted to talk to my mom
not me. Then I had to get a power of attorney to speak on
my mom’s behalf. BUT, I wasn’t an accountant or lawyer so
I was careful what I said. I let them do the talking.

They really weren’t helpful.

But then I discovered a secret number that made all the difference.

There is something called the Tax Payer Advocate. They
help people who can’t get help from the regular IRS people.

They were SUPER NICE and helpful. Actually the lady I spoke
to had a sister or something who had bipolar disorder. She totally
understood the problem.

I wasn’t looking for my mom to not pay taxes rather just to
get on a small payment plan and stop the threatening letters.
This is exactly what I was able to get done.

If you need help and can’t get help from the IRS at the
first number I gave, call the Taxpayer Advocate Service
Case Intake Line to see if you are eligible for help from
them. You can get them at: 1-877-777-4778
or TTY/TTD: 1-800-829-4059.

VERY IMPORTANT

Some people dealing with bipolar disorder, supporters AND
those with the disorder wind up always having tax problems.
Why? Well because they aren’t following a system to maintain
stability.

If you don’t have your own system, can’t figure it out on
your own, you can look at what I have.

SUPPORTING AN ADULT
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net

Hey I have to run for the day. Have a good
day.

Your Friend,

Dave

P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/

P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.
http://bipolarcentral.libsyn.com

I wanted to write you a quick email today about something
I got via email. Someone wrote me, “Dave, you do so
much, don’t you get burned out helping your mom so much?”

Okay, let me address that right here. Here’s the deal.
I am tired for sure. But it’s more because I am running
4 businesses, body build non competitively, have a social
life AND support my mom.

Let me clear up one thing. BEFORE two weeks ago, my
mom was operating on her own. I did not enable her
or fix any of her problems. She was self and high
functioning. So she wasn’t a burden.

She was following the system outlined in my course/system
for those with bipolar disorder at http://www.survivebipolar.net

People with bipolar disorder can do well, and really well
if they follow a system. I have 8 people with mood disorders
who work for me. They all do well.

With that said, this last mini episode which could have
turned into a major long episode was draining.
But because I have a lot going on.

BUT, I do see many supporters get what I call, caregiver
fatigue. This occurs when you are totally burned out
when you are supporting someone with an illness like
bipolar disorder. There are unfortunately thousands of
people on my list like this (I have almost 90,000 people
on my list).

In my supporter courses, I have a cd that talks about
burnout and all the ways to avoid it.

SUPPORTING AN ADULT
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com

How do you stop this kind of fatigue or burnout? There
are several ways.

I think the number one thing people can do is do the
right things. Burnout comes when you are doing the wrong
things and/or not getting any results. For example,
in 2005 when I was figuring out how to support my mom,
I would argue with her. I would try to convince her
about things that she needed to know. She would say
my dad threw a fork at her. I would try to convince
her it didn’t happen because I was watching.

I did this for days and days at a night. One day I spent 9
straight hours arguing with her and it never changed her
mind.

Then one day it dawned on me I should stop doing this.
If she would say something “crazy” to me, I would ignore
it. This reduced the burnout.

I also notice burnout is a result of lacking information
on what to do strategically. Like:

-How do you find a good doctor/therapist?
-How do you get a loved one on medication?
-How to you know when a person is going into an episode?
-What is an episode?
-How do you prevent new episodes?
-How do you nicely make doctors give great care?
-How do you find a therapist?
-What do you do when it looks like your loved one is getting sick
again?
-What do you do if the doctor won’t talk to you?

and things like this

These are all strategy questions. The wrong strategy produces
burnout. I will give you a recent example with myself and my
dad. Okay first keep in mind, my dad has read probably 1%
of the material I have. Maybe that would be overestimating. I
am dead serious. He has NO information. Probably because I
do all the work for him. On a side note, I have given him
a July 1, 2007 deadline to read it ALL and go through
ALL cds. He is going to now.

Anyway, my mom was going into an episode. I wanted to test
him. I asked what do you think we should do. He said,
“Let’s take her to the hospital.” I told him this
would be a HUGE strategic mistake.

The reason is because my mom wasn’t bad enough to get admitted
anyway. Plus she hates the hospital. I know this. We would
have spent probably days figuring out which of the 21
techniques would get her to agree to the hospital. We would
have gotten there and they would have let her out fairly
fast in my opinion. Lots of time would have been wasted.

I choose the contact her doctor route even though my
mom took away my ability to speak to her doctor. I countered
with a loop hole in the legal system and my mom was able
to get treatment fast. The entire thing took one day and
not more than 30 minutes of my time. My dad’s method
would have taken days, gotten no results and created
HUGE burnout for us.

So, much of being a good supporter is about using the right
strategy. NOW, I am NOT saying I know everything. I don’t.
My mom’s bipolar actually beat me 7 days in a row last week.
It figured out a way to undo all the medical releases
that were signed so I could talk to people. BUT, I countered
with a work around and loop hole in the system. It’s like a
game of chess.

So the bottom line is, you have to think about caregiver
burnout and fatigue, because if you get to tired or
you fall apart, you won’t do your loved one any good.

Hey I have to run. See you tomorrow.

Your Friend,

Dave

P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/

P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.

Hi,

If you have been following my story and emails over the
last week. You know my mom went into another episode
and we caught it. She was doing really bad. Then we
used a technique to get her to the doctor. It was
really easy actually. BUT before we were able to
a number of bad things were done.

I am currently figuring out what went wrong
and have discovered some shocking reasons why
she went into this episode. I will be revealing
them next week. It’s taking me a while to write it up
for you.

BUT in the meantime, I wanted to tell you this.
One thing that happen is my mom stopped seeing
the great therapist I found for her and started
seeing a new guy who is a TOTAL disaster.

He is a joke. He actually shouldn’t be allowed
to practice. You might think this is harsh but he
has done a ton of bad things.

Anyway, she needs a new therapist. I am going to
use my old doctor/therapist finding system
which is in all my main courses:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net

BEFORE I told my dad this, he said to me,
well I wonder where we can find a therapist.
He said, maybe we can look in the phone
book.

I WAS SHOCKED. I was like HELLO,
the phone book? If you know my courses
I go through why the phone book doesn’t
work for finding doctors/therapist generally.
Neither does the internet.

Actually I had a lady the other day call me,
she got my course and was using the f.ree
consultation for non medical and non legal
questions. She said that she tried everything to find
a good therapist.

Her definition of EVERYTHING was looking on the
internet. I asked her why she didn’t use my
super easy system. She said, “I forgot.”

Here’s the deal. A therapist is super important.
You can’t mess around and hope for a good one.
You need to be proactive and take it DEADLY
serious.

Use my system, OR make your own. But do something
that is going to work for you.

Shame on my dad for not even remembering or reading
my stuff that he has for f.ree. He did say to me,
he has done stuff wrong for so many years, it’s hard
for him to break old ways of thinking.

Hey I have to run. See you tomorrow.

POST RESPONSES TO THIS EMAIL HERE

Your Friend,

Dave

P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/

P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.http://bipolarcentral.libsyn.com

PLEASE FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS

Here is the current Bipolar Disorder news.

http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews321/

Here are some of the headlines:

Intensive Psychotherapy Boosts Bipolar Disorder Outcomes

Bipolar boy in 14 facilities before death in Mexia

Bipolar former Spartan feared for his life

Mental Health of Ex-Honor Student Deteriorates: Family Says Teen
Not Getting Right Medicine, Wants Him Transferred

Bipolar research points to drug-free treatment

View the news by visiting:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews321/

My Resources For Bipolar:

Quickly And Easily Explain Bipolar To People
Go here for more information.
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/explainingbipolar

Need Money Because Of Bipolar Disorder?
Go here for more information
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarbusiness

Dating Someone With Bipolar?
Go here for more information
http://www.BipolarCentral.com/bipolardating

Want To Marry Someone Who Has Bipolar?
Go here for more information
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Need Affordable Health Insurance When Dealing With
Bipolar Disorder?
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http://www.bipolarcentral.com/insuranceguide/

Problems With Drugs, Alcohol And Addiction?
Go here for more information
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Trying To PREVENT A Divorce From Someone With Bipolar
Disorder?
Go here for more information:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolardivorce

Your Friend,
Dave

Hi,

First, sorry I didn’t write yesterday. I had so much
going on, I just didn’t have the time. I hope you
got the message from Jen letting you know what is
going on with me.

If you are new to this list, there will be a link
below to get caught up on everything. In the meantime,
please bare with me.

I have been telling you how my mom went into a
major something again. I say something because
I didn’t know what it was until yesterday.

According to her doctor, she went into another
episode again. Okay, she is doing okay now, but
there is so much for you to learn that I am
going to try to get to you as fast as possible.

Let me reexplain some things now. Okay, as you
know, around in 2004, my mom started going into
a MAJOR episode.

This story is documented in my courses/systems
here:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net

Okay, so after my mom was stable, she was doing
great. Meaning, she has almost paid off her $30,000
of d.ebt, has a job, has friends, is going to the
doctor when she is suppose to, taking her medication,
following the same system for those with bipolar disorder
here: http://www.survivebipolar.net

So, everything is TOTALLY FINE. Okay, just get that point.
TOTALLY FINE. So, just think now in your head, my mom
is doing great and then….

SOMETHING BAD HAPPEN

I noticed my mom didn’t look the same, act the same
and in 7 days my mom went from the above description
of DOING GREAT, TOTALLY FINE, not being able to
work, add, subtract, screaming, yelling, foaming
at the mouth, attacking people, telling dozens if
not 100 CONVINCING lies to anyone that would listen,
looking almost like a homeless person (DEAD SERIOUS)
ALL WHILE TAKING HER MEDICATION.

I REPEAT, she WAS taking her medication–FOR SURE!

You might be thinking, “Dave, how the heck does
this happen.” Okay, I am not going to get into that
today because, quite frankly, I am still investigating
that myself. I am pretty sure that I know. I am
going to detail this.

But for now, I want you to get some key points.

1. If a person has bipolar disorder and is stable
he/she can unfortunately become unstable very quickly.

2. Supporters have to step in and take MASSIVE and
IMMEDIATE action to turn things around.

Let me tell you, over 7 days, I lost EVERY SINGLE
battle against my mom’s bipolar disorder. If you do
like I teach in my supporter course, you separate the
person from the illness. Once you do that, you can
be at war with bipolar disorder NOT the person.

So to me, I am in a long war against bipolar disorder.
In that war, there are battles. Let me tell you,
I lost all the battles in 7 days.

The bipolar disorder steam rolled right over my
dad. He called in reinforcements (me), and I
was defeated for 7 straight days. My dad was shocked.
He was worried. He told me yesterday he didn’t
know what to do because normally I figure out what
to do and he never saw me not know what to do.

BUT, I didn’t give up. I didn’t go in the corner
and start crying. I didn’t find some person
to blame and get all mad like some people do on
my newsletter list.

What did I do? I took my material, went to the library.
I read through it again. I also, and you are going to
think I am totally crazy, read a book on Cold War
strategy.

I then outlined a total counter attack against my
mom’s bipolar disorder using ALL techniques and strategies
that I knew. All the stuff in my material I have.

After I did this, I won the battle for the day. The
first major battle for me was getting around
the doctor and therapist telling me they couldn’t
talk to me about my mom’s condition.

You might be thinking, “Dave, what the heck, you
preach to us to make sure the releases are signed
so doctors and therapists can speak to supporters.”

YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT. I do preach that. BUT, my mom
UNDID the releases. Meaning she changed them in a way
that made it almost impossible for the doctors or
therapists to know what was truly going on.

I countered with the techniques I teach in the report
“How to get around the dreaded Hippa law.” My strategy
worked and I was able to communicate with the doctor
and therapist.

Yesterday my mom went to the doctor, her medication was
changed and within a very short period of times, she
start becoming stable again. I don’t know about this
morning. But I will go over and see how she is doing.

If you are reading this and find yourself losing battle
after battle day after day, there is hope. It wasn’t
looking good for me and I turned things around. You can
too. Just hang in there.

GOOD THINGS
First there are several good things that happen. First
I proved that my system does work. Secondly, my dad
realizes the importance of having a clue and knowing
what to do. For the first time ever he actually read
some of my material and was “surprised” that it had
stuff in it that “made sense” to do.

Secondly, my system for protecting money worked 100%.
My mom tried to spend money but the system prevented it.
That makes me really, really, really happy because
I am tired of losing money from bipolar disorder. So
my mom and dad’s finances were protected in this most
recent episode.

BAD THINGS

-Some how this happened even though my mom was taking
her medication. I will be figuring out why over the
coming days.

-My mom undid some things that I put in place to
help and protect her.

-My mom did a ton of damage to the last remaining
family members, her friends and my dad. Her sister
is really mad at her. My mom told her sister a
huge lie and now she is really mad. Like not going
to talk to her again kind of mad. Right now my
brother doesn’t talk to my mom anymore. It’s been
more than a year. Several of her friends are really
mad.

The only thing we can do is learn, create new systems
and try to prevent this again.

HERE’S WHAT I AM GOING TO BE DOING

I am going to be detailing what happen, how I think it
happened (I will never know for 100%), and how
to prevent it in the future. Right now, I can tell
you vigilance is the key. You have to be vigilant
even if your loved one is totally stable.

If you have bipolar disorder and you think this isn’t
fair or really stinks that you could go into an episode
even when you are doing everything right, the counter
to this is to have a good support circle. If my mom
didn’t have one, she really could have lost it all.
BUT she didn’t.

THE HUGE TOLL ON ME

This has taken a huge toll on me. I lost 11 pounds.
I have gotten very little sleep. It’s been super
stressful. I have forgotten several important
business meetings and this will wind up costing
me a whole lot of money unless I can convince
the people to give me another chance.

Oh well, there will be other business meetings.

FINAL THOUGHTS
I must say this, I think that the greatest difficult
with bipolar disorder is preventing the next episode
after the last big episode. I am going to be coming
out with lots to say about this really soon.

Information is the key to success with this
disorder. Without it, you will most likely fail. Whether
you have bipolar disorder or you are a supporter. This
is the brutal truth.

One last thing. People notice that I have typos and
stuff in my material. I am a math person not a English
person. BUT, the interesting thing is this. In the
midst of my mom screaming, yelling threatening,
she too my manual on schizophrenia I have been working
on for a year, and edited the entire thing and made
some suggestions. Strange, huh?

The one thing about my mom is this. She can edit
even if she is in the worst episodes. She can’t add
or subtract but she can edit. Michele Soloway (a
writer of mine) can do this as well.

So for all of you out there who think maybe I have
bipolar disorder because I have typos in my emails,
you need to reread the signs and symptoms of bipolar.
There isn’t wone that talks about grammar and typos
:).

POST RESPONSES TO THIS EMAIL HERE

Your Friend,

Dave

P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/

P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.http://bipolarcentral.libsyn.com

My name is Jenifer. I have been helping Dave out the past
few weeks and he asked me to send his daily email for him
today. He wanted me to let you know that he’s helping his
mom today and will resume his regular email tomorrow.

He has learned a ton new things about bipolar disorder
that he is going to be sharing about his mom’s most recent
episode.

All the best to you and your families. If you are interested
in his courses:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN
Visit:
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HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net

Thanks.
Jenifer

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