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Hi,

How’s it going?

Hope you had a good weekend. Well I wanted
to follow up on an email that I sent last week
concerning faith and bipolar disorder.

I don’t want to make this a religious forum.
But I had a lot of people writing me about
my email the other day about faith and bipolar
disorder.

In my opinion, God puts Tools on the earth.
One tool is something called a job. Jobs are for
making a living.

God has another tool called medication.
Medication helps people become stable.
In other words, If you don’t take your
medication you can’t blame God.

God also gives us doctors, who have the
ability to diagnose our loved ones with
bipolar disorder. A diagnosis is another
tool.

I’m not saying faith is not good. Faith
is still a good thing. But it can’t be the
ONLY thing.

Some of you even brought up that point.
Here’s what some of you said:

One person said:
“Faith is very good, but if a diabetic
had a very high blood sugar, prayer or
positive thinking probably wouldn’t bring
the elevated blood sugar down without
proper medication.”

Another person said:
“My family can have all the faith in the
world, and pray for me, but if I do
not use the tools that God gave me
(through the therapist) then I will not
get any better.”

See? This person even refers to the
tools like I’m talking about! She says
that her therapist is one of her tools.

In my courses and systems below, many people who I
interview as major success stories share this exact
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Actually come to think about it,

I have an email from someone that
said:

“You cannot will or pray the bipolar
sufferer OUT of an episode, whether
manic or depressive. But you CAN
pray that God will give you the
WISDOM to know how to deal with
your loved one, and to help YOU
during a crisis.”

See, that backs up what I’m saying,
like the old expression, you don’t throw
the baby out with the bathwater. I’m not
saying to NOT have faith – I think faith
is a GREAT thing to have in your tool
box.

And I do believe that God can give you
(as well as the doctor) wisdom. But I
also believe that without medication
and therapy (and other tools in your
tool box), your loved one will NOT
get better.

Well, I have to go.

Again I am not going to make this like a religious
forum but there are thousands of people sitting
at home not taking any action and waiting for
a miracle. It’s the same type of thinking when
you wait at home for your bills to get paid
but you don’t do anything to make any m.oney.

What would you tell a person that seriously
sat inside his/her house and was perfectly
able to work but didn’t and simply wanted
his/her bills paid some how and then
got mad when they were not.

Know what I mean? Well that’s it for the religious
emails for a while and on to other topics.

Have a great day!

Your friend,

Dave
–
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