Hi,

I have to go super fast today. I am going on a 10 mile hike. It’s going to take a while to complete.

I was thinking about joining this hiking club that’s by me. Well it’s not that close that’s the problem. It’s 60 minutes away and the hikes are like 5 hours which means that it would take almost the entire day. I am not sure yet.  Back to the place I am going today.

Actually way at the top of the mountain of where I am going is where I came up with the idea to hire people who have bipolar disorder to work in the organization. That’s was a great decision if I do say so myself because many of the people I hired have helped advanced everything way beyond what I could have done.

Anyway, yesterday I was at a Strongman competition with my friend Rob. He actually took 2^nd place and now qualified for Nationals.

He is doing really well. Just wanted to let you know J

Anyway, let’s get into today’s topic. Did you know that certain odors can have a profound effect on your memory, energy and even your mood swings? Even on your overall health in general?

As far as memory, think about it. For example, think about the smell of baby powder. If you have grown children, and you smell baby powder, doesn’t it automatically trigger memories of your children when they were babies?   Or if you smell chlorine, don’t you associate it with a swimming pool? An ocean breeze with the beach? The smell of roses with a romantic evening?

Just a whiff of a special scent can trigger a happy, magical memory.

But today, neuroscientists are learning that our sense of smell is worth more than just remembering pleasant memories.

What does this have to do with bipolar disorder?

New research shows that it can lower our stress levels and even help with insomnia, both of which are problems for people who have bipolar disorder. There is even some research that shows that our sense of smell can help us lose weight, and many people with bipolar disorder struggle with weight because of some bipolar medications which make you gain weight.

Now, some people accuse me of being against natural remedies for bipolar disorder, and my stand is pretty sure.

I am against natural CURES, since there is NO cure for bipolar disorder. I am pretty protective of the people who read my courses and materials, website material and emails, so I always try to make sure they know the truth. Just be careful to read the small print.

Natural herbs and remedies, etc., like fragrances, are ok, if they help you (always IN ADDITION TO medication).

In fact, in my courses/systems, I talk about natural herbs and remedies and alternative forms of therapy such as aromatherapy:

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The process is complex. But researchers recently discovered how a particular fragrance can change your mood.

In a brand-new study from Ohio State University, they exposed subjects to two fragrances – lavender, which is known to have a calming effect, and lemon – which many studies have shown to be invigorating.

Subjects were then told to sniff these fragrances before and after a mildly stressful event (in this case, after putting a foot in freezing water).  In the tests that followed, scientists uncovered ‘robust evidence that lemon oil reliably enhances positive mood.’

In fact, blood levels of an energizing hormone, norepinephrine, spiked and stayed high for the subjects who smelled the lemony scent, while the subjects who smelled the lavender got no boost.

In an Austrian study, researchers had some participants smell oranges while others smelled lavender. The two groups felt less anxious, more positive, and calmer when compared with participants who were exposed to no fragrance at all.

Aromatherapy is a big deal these days, making all kinds of claims about lowering stress levels. I’m not a scientist or anything, but if it helps, let me know!

Hey, I have to go and get to my starting point.

I am going to post some photos tomorrow. 2 weeks ago I saw a bear. I have pictures but can’t figure out how to get them out of my phone to post so you can see them. I will in the next few days.

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide “Bipolar Disorder—The REAL Silent Killer.” Click Here to get FREE Information sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.

Hi,

We usually think of supporters as having compassion, since they are supporters, after all. But today I want to talk to both supporters and people who have bipolar disorder as well, as everyone should have compassion, don’t you think?

Some people I think are just born with compassion. And some people are more compassionate than others. But then some people just have to learn how to be compassionate. One way to do that is to practice compassion, whether you feel it or not. And nothing helps us build our character more than developing compassion for others.

Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It can just start with willingness. If you just have the willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, you’ll take the focus off yourself and you can imagine what it’s like to feel like them, experience what they experience, struggle with what they struggle with, have the problems they have.

So what does this have to do with bipolar disorder?

Try to imagine those people who you don’t think understand what you’re going through. Maybe you don’t think they have much compassion toward you. They probably don’t, because they haven’t imagined what it’s like to be in your shoes, go through what you go through, experience your problems and struggles, etc.

It’s up to you to educate them. That’s what I teach in my courses/systems. You have to educate other people on bipolar disorder because they aren’t going to learn it on their own.

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They need to be willing, too, to take the focus off themselves and to imagine what it’s like to be someone who has bipolar disorder, and to feel compassion for that person.

Compassion can be learned. It’s the recognition that other people’s problems, their frustration and pain, are every bit as real as our own – and many times even worse. It means stopping being selfish.

Compassion is something you can develop with practice. You get better with it over time.

If you have it in your heart, it will come out in your actions. Like me, for example. I’m not bragging, believe me, really, I’m not. I’m just using myself as an example. I mean, I sure don’t do what I do for the money, because I’m no millionaire! J

But I do care about people who have bipolar disorder. So I have compassion toward people with the disorder. So I volunteer at several bipolar support groups. That’s the action part.

Being compassionate is who you are. Having compassion is what you do about it.

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide “Bipolar Disorder—The REAL Silent Killer.” Click Here to get FREE Information sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in sending this out.

Here’s the current bipolar news.

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Here are some of this week’s headlines:

Payday Loans: Cheap Loans if Used Properly

Debt Consolidation Online

Author with bipolar disorder relates grim and humorous details

New Scholarship For Leaders Of Bipolar Lives

Huge Risk for Substance Abuse Found Among Teens With Bipolar Disorder

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Your Friend,

Dave

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide “Bipolar Disorder—The REAL Silent Killer.” Click Here to get FREE Information sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.

Hi,

How’s it going?

I hope you are doing well.

I was talking to someone on the phone about bipolar disorder and was kind of amazed with what she was saying.

She described herself very negatively because she has bipolar disorder.

How would you describe yourself? What one word describes you best? If you can’t think of one, maybe you’re undervaluing yourself, which is easy to do if you or a loved one has bipolar disorder.

Look at the list below of some positive characteristics, and see if some of them describe you (or described you before bipolar disorder came into your life).

· Intelligent

· Creative

· Solution-Oriented

· Kind

· Good Listener

· Understanding

· Good Friend

· Loyal

· Compassionate

· Honest

· Courageous

· Stable

· Friendly

· Good-Hearted

· Gentle

· Good Leader

· Supportive

· Good Person

Everybody has some positive qualities, whether they realize it or not. If you’re not sure what yours are, ask a friend or loved one to describe you in one word. You might be surprised at their answer!

In my courses/systems, I talk about how bipolar disorder can cause a loss of self-esteem, and ways you can manage the disorder and work on getting your self-esteem back:

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Some people tend to identify themselves with the disorder. But like I always say, you are NOT your disorder. Bipolar disorder is a chemical imbalance that affects your moods, and maybe even your personality, but NOT who you are!

Who you are has nothing to do with bipolar disorder. You are a distinct, unique person. There is no one else like you. You have your very own qualities, and many of them are good ones, as you saw from the list at the beginning!  Bipolar disorder has a tendency to distort people’s images of themselves. Don’t let it fool you! You are NOT the person that your mood swings make you into. When you get frustrated or discouraged, remember who you are between episodes.

To a supporter of a loved one with bipolar disorder I say the same thing – remember who your loved one is between episodes – that’s who they really are, and that’s the person you love.

I have to run. I will catch you tomorrow.

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide “Bipolar Disorder—The REAL Silent Killer.” Click Here to get FREE Information sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.

Hi,

How’s it going?

Hey, sorry this is a little late. I was actually working on some other stuff and had to get it done.

Anyway, I was checking out some comments posted about me on another forum and there were actually complaints about me there!

They said that I give out bad information. That my information only talks about medications.

This isn’t true, of course, but it is true that I talk about how medications are the key to success.

Still, some people want to believe that you don’t need them, so that’s probably why this person made that complaint about me.

So what? Let them complain. I’m not going to stop teaching in my courses about the importance of medication for people with bipolar disorder just because some people don’t agree with it:

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I also got attacked AGAIN this week (must be a full moon or something!) by an email that said:

“You are so biased toward drug companies it’s sad. You need to open your mind. Drug companies make billions of medications and you are helping them.”

So here’s 2 different people, and both are complaining about my “pushing medications.” The first is more right on, because you know me, and I DEFINITELY DO NOT push the drug companies.

In fact, in other emails, I speak out AGAINST the drug companies! (but that’s an email in itself, I won’t go into that right now).

The thing is yeah, I DO talk a lot, not just in my courses, but also to people on the phone and in emails about the importance of medication. Why shouldn’t I? I’ve seen and heard of too many, WAY too many, people with the disorder KILL themselves because they went off their medication!

So I try to keep it from happening as much as I can. And I talk about it a lot. I know I do. And I hope that people will listen. At least some of them. So maybe I can help save lives. What’s wrong with that?

I’m not trying to sound defensive here or anything, but it really made me mad at these complaints about me!

I mean, wouldn’t it bother you if you thought you were doing a good thing and all you got was criticism for it?

I talk about medication all the time because sometimes, as dramatic as it may seem, sometimes it really is a matter of life and death when you’re talking about bipolar disorder.

And I don’t think I should have to apologize for that, do you?

So I just didn’t even answer these complaints about me.

First of all, because I absolutely am NOT involved with the drug companies one single bit. Don’t you think if I was, that I would bea whole lot richer than I am? (Instead of the fact that I haven’t even drawn a paycheck in 3 yearssince I started bipolarcenntral.com?)

Secondly, because I think the drug companies in general hurt more than help people with bipolar disorder because in many cases people don’t have insurance and can’t afford their medication. I know someone who just ONE of their medications is over $650 per month!! And that causes people to go off their medications or not to take their medications. So you know I’m absolutely against that! So why would I support that? Why would I be on the side of the drug companies, when I am so concerned about people taking their medications?

All of this makes me very mad!

I’m just trying to help people, and all I do is get criticized for it?

Sometimes I get so discouraged that I just want to give up. I don’t even know sometimes if what I’m doing is even helping. Sorry if this sounds so bad, but really, these 2 emails just really got to me.

Oh well, tomorrow’s another day. and hopefully I won’t get any more complaints.

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide “Bipolar Disorder—The REAL Silent Killer.” Click Here to get FREE Information sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.

Hi,

How’s it going?

I hope you are doing well.

What’s the difference between sad and depressed when you have bipolar disorder? I was thinking about this question the other day.

I came to the conclusion that there is a difference, and that one is an emotion, and the other can lead to a bipolar episode. I also came to the conclusion that you need to know the difference.  One woman with bipolar disorder puts it this way: ‘When I’m feeling sad, I keep telling myself that saying This Too Shall Pass. But a (bipolar) depression goes on for days or weeks, and can lead into an episode no matter how many times I say This Too Shall Pass. That’s how I know the difference.’

Sadness is an emotion. It has a beginning and an end. It’s a short-term thing, caused by a specific event – say the loss of something/someone, like the end of a relationship. It can lead to a depression, but that depression will be short-lived.

There are different types of depression. For example, there is unipolar depression and bipolar depression. Unipolar depression is just depression by itself without being part of a bipolar episode, usually treatable by anti-depressants, which improve the depression. While, with bipolar depression, you have to treat the whole episode, with medication, therapy, etc.

Again, where sadness can be triggered by a single event, bipolar depression can be triggered over and over again.

With treatment, bipolar depression can be managed as part of bipolar disorder itself. This is one of the things I teach in my courses/systems:

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Sadness can be a part of grief, say over a loved one’s death. It may go on for a long while, but the sadness itself will pass. You could be sad over the death of your dog, for instance, but it will not be the same type of sadness, and it will not go on as long. Either way, the sadness will not go on as long as depression. You might be sad over the loss of a job, but only until you find another job – again, different than depression (it’s only a short-term sadness).

Another important point to make about the difference between sadness and depression and how they relate to bipolar disorder is that you don’t take medication for sadness, but you do for bipolar depression. Especially if you’re trying to catch the bipolar depression before it takes you into a full-blown episode.

There is such a thing as a mixed sadness. For example, say your best friend since childhood gets married, or takes a job out of state. You’re happy for him/her, but you’re sad for yourself at the loss of your best friend.

An example of a long-term depression might be a frustration of your life’s dream or another life-changing event such as divorce after a long-term marriage or the death of a spouse.

Sadness, no matter how deep at the time, is still short-lived, although the memory of that sadness can last a lifetime. For example, think about your first love (everyone remembers their first love). You might always remember him/her, the relationship, and the break-up, but although the sadness at the time was deep, and you may even feel sad as you recall the memory, you are long over it, as you moved on with your life.

In other words, it was a temporary sadness that doesn’t keep you sad forever.

So there is a difference between sadness and depression, especially as it relates to bipolar disorder.

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide “Bipolar Disorder—The REAL Silent Killer.” Click Here to get FREE Information sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.

Hi,

How’s it going?

I just got back from the gym a few minutes and wanted to get some really important things out to you.

First I have a new f.ree podcast you can hear over here:

http://bipolarcentral.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=355059

It’s titled a “A Major Key To Bipolar Success.”

Have a listen, it’s f.ree.

Second, I wanted to tell you some updates on what I am working on.

I am actually building a new part of bipolarcentral called the money center or something like that.

This part of bipolarcentral will have a substantial number of totally f.ree articles on m.oney related issues including but not limited to:

c.redit cards, d.ebt, refinancing, investments, and loans.

Why am I doing this? Well m.oney is important for bipolar disorder and I did a survey of my list. Lots of people are having problems with m.oney issues.

The articles will be totally free.

When I first got started, I found by accident a person who worked at NASA–The National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

This person was was wrongly diagnosed with depression and then eventually diganosed with bipolar disorder. More about that in a second.

She is an excellent writer and has a massive knowledge about financial related topics

like me.

She and I are going to be working on lots of f.ree articles for you to read.

The hard part is that my current website has a problem. It was not setup to host as many articles as it’s been having.

I actually have to have the entire site redone but that is going to take time. So I am currently posting the articles the hard way.

Anyway, back to this woman.

She had some really, really bad problems with m.oney related to depression and manic episodes.

After many years, she finally found the right doctor and this was her big key to success. She gave him a lot of background information about herself.

The doctor had a complete overview of everything that had happen to her over the years.

And most importantly, she was 100% honest.

In my courses/systems below:

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I talk at length how this is critical.

You MUST and I repeat MUST get a doctor an entire background on you or your loved one.

How do you do this? You can simply make an outline year by year or month by month and fax, mail, email or hand deliever to the doctor BEFORE the appointment.

The doctor will almost be forced to look at it. It’s kind of a way to get f.ree care. Why? Well the doctor is going to look at it when you or your loved one is not in the room.  He/she might look at it for 30 minutes or even longer. Than see you for 15 to 30 minutes or longer.

By giving the honest background information, it enables a doctor to make a treatment plan much, MUCH better.

Make sense?

This particular woman simply, let the doctor know about her moods and that although she was depressed at the current time she was seeing him, she had been, in her words, “really up” for periods of time. She also included family history a number of other items about her thoughts.

It was all of this that enabled the doctor to diagnose her with bipolar disorder not depression.

By getting the rigth diagnosis, she was on the road to success.

It all started with getting the doctor the right background material for his review.

In my courses/systems, ALL the success stories I have ever found have used this strategy. I never met anyone that just sent either themselves or their loved ones into a 15 minute visit with the doctor with no background information and became a success.

Now you might ask, “Dave, don’t doctors have this type of information in a patient file?”

That’s a great question. They are SUPPOSE to according to best practices. But doctors report to me that patient records are many times missing, incomplete, confusing, etc.

Also, there are a number of bad doctors out there. Really lazy ones as well. If you have a good doctor today and he/she has patient files. He/she would have to rely on many bad doctor’s information which could be flawed.

See what I mean?

Well I have to take off for the day. Anyone have any of these problems with files being lost or not written correctly?

Let us all know.

Hey catch you tomorrow.

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