Hi,

How’s it going?

I hope you’re doing ok. I’m not.

I have had a whole lot of problems recently. IT or programming and coding issues.

There are so many programs and softwares that are now being used it makes my head hurt. And you’re talking to a guy that doesn’t like technology at all.

I just started using CDs a year ago. I use to use tapes. Seriously.

Anyway, we had some problems with the blog, we have problems with something else. This new person I hired who is super smart has solutions but he is so smart that I don’t even understand what he is saying so I
have to have a person translate what he is saying so it makes sense to me.

Anyway, I am not going to cry on your shoulder today. I will get it all handled.

You would be shocked how technology goes into this entire organization to make it work.

You would never see or get good information to help you with bipolar disorder if it weren’t for all these different programs.

I am kind of also annoyed because I got a couple of emails and even a phone call in the middle of the night saying that I am not a real person and I am taking advantage of people with bipolar disorder. I know I am suppose to ignore these but they are SUPER annoying.

When you spend your ENTIRE weekend fixing stuff for the good of the people so to speak the last thing you want to hear is stuff like this. I am just being honest.

Imagine working ALL day on something and someone is like, “you suck.”

I was telling Michele that works for me and Pascale who helps me that this entire organization has pushed me thinking to it’s limits. I never realized that in order to make all this happen and hit the goals we set a few years ago it would require so much work, so much thinking and so many people.

The team has done a great job and I will say this. It would have NEVER happen if I didn’t hire people with bipolar disorder.

I take c.redit for that decision. I am serious. If I didn’t decide to hire people with on or more disorder like bipolar disorder this organization would have vanished long ago.

So if you are reading this and think people with bipolar disorder are such a problem, you are wrong. They are a major asset. As it stands today, the huge IT related problems that are going on are being solved in part by people with disorders.

In one case, one particular problem that alluded someone without a disorder for a long time, was solved and you’re going to think I am lying with about 25 minutes. I know that sounds like a lie. I wouldn’t believe it either.

Anyway, I have to get into today’s topic because I have a lot of stuff to do today.

Whether you are the supporter or the loved one,

YOU BETTER NOT DO THIS:

Never wish you were somewhere else.

Haven’t you ever heard that old saying, “Wherever you go, there you are?”

In other words, it doesn’t help to try to run from your problems, whether literally or just in your head.

You can’t wish your problems away. You have to deal with them.

I know it’s hard. I have to do it too. (Try being me for a day! LOL)

But NEVER wish you were somewhere else.

“Somewhere else” has its problems there, too.

Because, “Wherever you go, there you are.” And so are your problems. They’re still in your head.

A supporter doesn’t stop being a supporter just because they’re not home with their loved one.

Running away doesn’t help. And neither does wishing you were somewhere else.

In my courses/systems below:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net
I teach how you have to face what’s in front of you – how you have to develop systems to help you deal with those things.

I know it’s hard dealing with a loved one with bipolar disorder. And sometimes you’d rather be somewhere else doing something else (anything else).

But it doesn’t help to think that way.

In fact, you better NOT think that way, because it will only get you into trouble.

You have to face reality. You have to deal with what’s in front of you, good AND bad.

And there are ways to do that:

1. Remain positive
2. Be proactive
3. Maintain contact with friends
4. Maintain contact with family
5. Take care of yourself
6. Journal your thoughts and feelings
7. Exercise (it gets out your frustration)
8. See your own therapist
9. Take up a hobby
10. Go places without your loved one

These are just some suggestions. I’m sure you can think of some of your own if you try.

Another thing is that you have to separate yourself from your loved one.

You have your own identity outside your loved one and outside their disorder. Make sure you remember that!

Also, try to separate your loved one from their disorder.  know that’s hard sometimes, especially because you have to live with them every day, but you have to try to do it anyway.

Some people do this by looking through old photo albums or scrapbooks and remembering what their loved one was like before the disorder.

Other people keep in mind what their loved one is like when they’re not in an episode (and they’re grateful for that!).

But whatever, always keep in mind NOT to think about being somewhere else – it will ruin you’re trying to stay “in the moment.”

You may not be in the best “moment” of your life, but at least you’ll be dealing with reality.
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Hi,

Yesterday was a major pain for me.

I had a whole bunch of problems.

You might have seen the blog was broken.

Here’s what happen. This new person who is working for me who looks over things alerted me that there was this problem.

We are building a new super job system to keep track of all the people applying for jobs. Anyway I guess the programmer did something.

I guess it’s like if a development is built and they hit a gas line.

Anyway after many hours it was all fixed.

Then after that, I had all kinds of issues that wasted hours and hours of my time.

I am looking forward to a peaceful NEXT Saturday.

Okay, let’s just to our topic today.

Today I want to talk about football.

Ok, I’ll only talk about it for a little while. 🙂

Because I know you’re already thinking I’m crazy (like you do sometimes), like, what does football have to do with bipolar disorder?

Ok, here’s the deal:

I used to play football. And in football, the main guy is the quarterback.

And it’s the whole rest of the team’s job is to protect the quarterback – to run interference for him (so he doesn’t get “sacked,” or hurt, or whatever).

See what I mean?

Ok, well, let me use another example then.

I run bipolarcentral.com. And I have a lot of people who work for me. We all work as a team, like a football team.

See, I head the company, so I’m like the quarterback on the football team.

And the people who work for me, well, their job is to protect me. To run interference for me.

Get the connection?

Ok, I know, I know, so what is the bipolar connection?

Well, scroll down, and I’ll tell you! 🙂

(Keep scrolling)

There IS a bipolar connection.

See, your loved one is like the quarterback in football.

And it’s your job as their supporter to protect them and to run interference for them.

Sometimes it’s hard for them to face things in a social setting (or even around other family members or at a family gathering, like at holiday times).

They might be ashamed at their bipolar disorder, or they might not have even told their family or other people that they have bipolar disorder.

Or they might be afraid that they’ll “act out” or show their depression or mania in front of other people.

So you have to protect them. You have to run interference for them.

In my courses/systems below, I teach people how to be good supporters, and how sometimes you have to protect your loved one, without becoming an enabler:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net
(An enabler is a supporter who does things for their loved one that their loved one can do for themselves.) But do you see the bipolar connection here?

I know you don’t need any more put on you than you already have, but you’re actually doing it anyway, you just may not have looked at it quite this way.

But really, you are like the football team, or my team, the people who work for me, all rolled up into one person – the supporter of a loved one with bipolar disorder.

So there really is a bipolar connection.

Can you see it?

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Hi,

How are you doing today? I hope you’re having a good day.

I didn’t yesterday. So get this.

I go to log into the service that sends all these emails to everyone. It’s all changed.

Then I go to log in to another service in our IT department and that’s all  changed.

I can’t figure out what’s where and how to send an email to you. Then I find out the companies have tech. problems. It was so annoying.

Anyway it’s all fixed.

I am actually up super early today. It’s like 5:30am Eastern time because I went to bed at like 10pm.

I am going to take off for the gym early today so I can get back. Plus, I am going hiking. Lots of people have been asking me about where I go. I go all over the tri state area.

Actually it’s pretty cool because I met this kid hiking that sent me DETAILED information about places I can go by me. I live in a very wooded mountain type area so there are lots of places to go that are not marked.

Also, this kid said, “I did a search on you and saw that you are really involved with bipolar disorder. Do you mind if I ask questions?”

So you know what that means? He probably knows someone with bipolar disorder.

Okay, let’s move on to today’s topic.

I was talking to a reporter a few weeks back, who was asking me questions about a story she was doing concerning pregnancy and bipolar disorder.

She asked me why so many people did not prepare for a pregnancy when they had bipolar disorder.  About why they didn’t talk to their doctors about it.  Why they just seemed to “wing it.”

I told her I just didn’t understand it, either. That they just seemed to treat it like it was a game of chance.

Like teenagers and sex.  Some will use protection, while others won’t.  Like some take it seriously, and some don’t.  Again, like a game of chance.

A real game of chance is like rolling the dice. There is a certain percentage of whether you will win or lose.  Most of the time you will lose.

Bipolar disorder is NOT a game of chance.  It is a serious disorder.  That’s why over 13 million people in this country have it.

That’s why 20% of people who have it and don’t take their medication DIE from it!  That’s 1 in 5 people!  That’s how serious it is!

Many people with bipolar disorder will KILL themselves because of the disorder!  That’s how serious it is!

I know that, because that’s not just me.  In my courses/systems below, I quote experts who give the statistics all about it:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
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SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
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HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
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Many people, especially young people, don’t take bipolar disorder seriously, and I just don’t understand why.  Maybe it goes back to that teenage sex thing. They treat it like a game of chance.

Here are some reasons:

· They are undiagnosed

· They are unmedicated (unprescribed)

· They are medication non-compliant (they won’t  take their medication

· They are in denial

· They won’t tell others they have it

· They try to hide it

· They think they’re too young to have it

· They think they can “beat” it

· They think they can be “cured”

· They think they’re “better”

Why would people gamble with their lives?  Why would they treat bipolar disorder as if it were not a serious
disorder?  A disorder that people DIE from every day?

Life is NOT a game of chance.

It should be taken seriously.

Bipolar disorder is NOT a game of chance, either.  It should be taken seriously, too.

Don’t you agree?

I am going to the gym now. Catch you tomorrow

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Hi,

How’s it going?

I hope you are doing well.

Here is today’s news.

To read this week’s news visit:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews395

Bipolar: Overdiagnosed or Epidemic?
DO> Hmm. Interesting, thoughts?

Living with the enemy of depression
DO> Depression is a major problem these days.

New International Consensus Statement on Bipolar Depression
DO> What do you think of this?

‘Scattershot’ A Bipolar Family Portrait
DO> I am going to try to get more information on this.

Sleep trouble linked to bipolar disorder
DO> I have been saying this for YEARS. Finally they are catching on 🙂

For these stories and more, please visit:
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Your Friend,

Dave

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Hi,

Hope you’re having a good day.

I got an email that said:

“David-

I am sick and tired of you people saying  bipolar disorder is so easy to manage. You don’t understand. We try to manage it and you mock us. We can’t get jobs. We can’t handle money. We can’t help ourselves. The government doesn’t help. No one cares. You people don’tunderstand.”

—————————————————

Now, I ask you, is this a loser attitude, or is this just a sad story?

Either way, I want to respond to it, line by line, because I feel like I have a responsibility to (and I need to defend myself and the people who work for me).

She says she is sick and tired of “you people” saying bipolar disorder is so easy to manage.

When have I EVER said that? I talk about how HARD it is to manage, as far as I know. That’s why I write all these emails! I try so hard to teach supporters how to help their loved ones how to manage their bipolar disorder.

In my courses/systems I try very hard to teach people how to manage their bipolar disorder, and these materials are HUNDREDS of pages long!

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.survivebipolar.net

I have even more courses and materials than these, even, to try to help people with bipolar disorder and their supporters to  manage their bipolar disorder. I KNOW how hard it is to manage the disorder, because I’m a supporter myself and I watched my mother go through it (still go through it).

Then she says I don’t understand. Oh, how well I do understand. I get hundreds and hundreds of responses to these emails. And I have over 5,000 testimonials about my courses and materials about bipolar disorder. If I didn’t understand, why would

all these people thank me for understanding?

What about her line about, “We try to manage it and you mock us.”? Where is THAT coming from? Have you EVER heard me say anything that is mocking?

Sometimes I might say something in my emails that is humorous, but as one of my people who works for me that has bipolar disorder says, “Sometimes if you don’t laugh about it, you’ll cry.”

But mocking? No. I think bipolar disorder is a VERY serious disorder. I talk about that all the time.

“We can’t get jobs,” she says. Then what about all the people who work for me? They got jobs. And what about all the people who bought my material on getting jobs even though you have bipolar disorder? That one is a BIG seller! Those people have gotten jobs, too.

Just because you have bipolar disorder doesn’t mean you can’t work. Many people who have the disorder have even started their own home businesses. Another one of my materials is about just that – starting your own home business, and that is another one that a lot of people buy, and they do very well. They don’t let their bipolar disorder stop them.

“We can’t handle money.” Well, that may be true. Many people with bipolar disorder can’t handle money. But they have supporters who can. In my courses/materials I do go into that as well. And I have talked about it in my emails, too. So there is a solution for that.

Yes, one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder is excessive spending. But bipolar medication does help with that, too. So maybe this woman is just off her medication?

“We can’t help ourselves.” Well, I’m sorry, but I strongly disagree. I have just known too many people with bipolar disorder who HAVE been able to help themselves.

“The government doesn’t help.” I’ve tried and tried to tell people that you can’t live on disability alone. You have to supplement your income somehow. But I also know a woman on SSDI who says she is not too proud to take charity or go to food banks to feed her kids. She says she does whatever she has to.

“No one cares. You people don’t understand.” I guess I would leave that for you to answer. Do you agree with her? Do you think I don’t care? Do you think I don’t understand?

Because by now I am frustrated with this woman and her email.

Because I have so many people who work for me who have bipolar disorder, and they are some of the most creative,  ard-working, problem-solvers, and productive, stable people I have ever known. They are not like this woman at all.

I told one of the people who works for me about this email, because at first I felt sorry for this woman. I thought her story was so sad.

This is what my employee told me:

“When I was first diagnosed, I felt sorry for myself,and I told my girlfriend my problems. She told me, “You’re not on a pity-pot, you’re in a pity-bathtub!”

In other words, she didn’t get any sympathy from her girlfriend. She was practically told that she had a loser attitude, not that she had a sad story. So that’s what I’m asking you. I’m done defending myself. Do you think this woman has a loser attitude

or a sad story?

What do you think?

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Hi,

Hope you’re doing good today.

I wanted to give you a few updates.

First, I owe a number of people return phone calls and emails in reference to various things related to bipolar disorder. I am sorry that I have not gotten back to you. I will by the end of the week. I have just been so busy.

Secondly, I will be hiring one administrative person that will work across this organization and another business that I have. This will bea great job for someone with bipolar disorder (yes, I hire people with bipolar disorder, I have 12 or 14 that work for me already).

Thirdly, there has been a great debate on whether or not you should have children ifyou have bipolar disorder. I actually was debating this last night until 1:00am. I think that I won. You know what I got? No sleep as my reward lol. I am going to be putting out a f.ree special report on this.

Okay, let’s jump into today’s topic.  I know so many people who don’t get anything done every day, and when you get done with this email, hopefully, you won’t be one of them!

But I was talking to this woman at the gym and she said she has a million kids.

I said, “Wow, you must be a million years old,

She didn’t think that was very funny.

She told me she can never get anything done for her business, so I asked her if she had a list.

She said, “Umm…no.”

Lists are the key. If you don’t know where you want to go, how are you going to get there? And if you don’t know what you want to get done, how are you going to get anything accomplished?

Here some lists, by category, that I would suggest:

To that woman with children, I would suggest this

list:

· School’s name, address, phone number

· School calendar events

· Her childrens’ birthdays

For her business:

· Contacts list

· Call back list

· Follow-up list

· Networking list

For people with bipolar disorder:

· List of medications

· When to take them

· Doctors’ names, addresses, ph. #’s

· Doctors’ appointments

Personal lists:

· Long-term goals

· Short-term goals

· To-Do lists

· Daily To-Do lists

· Shopping/Grocery lists

· Bucket List (from the movie)

· List of things you want from life

· Places you’d like to visit

· Book list of books you want to read

· List of DVD’s/CD’s you want

· Garage Sale list (of what you’re looking for)

· Gratitude List

· Prayer List

· List of friend’s/family’s names, addresses,

Phone numbers, cell numbers, email addresses

Birthdays, anniversaries

· List of important events

In my courses/systems below:

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.survivebipolar.net

I teach about To-Do Lists, and how important they are when it comes to bipolar disorder. If you have something to wake up for every day, it will help keep down those episodes. In life, if you have lists, it will help you to bemore organized. It also gives you something to look forward to.

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Hi,

How’s it going?

Yesterday I wrote a daily email about lying and bipolar disorder. I talked about how many times people with bipolar disorder don’t remember what they said or did because they are in episodes.

AND, they are not doing it on purpose. That’s a big difference.

I personally have so many people TRY to lie to me in a given week it’s amazing.

You might not realize this, but in order for you to have found my site, I had to buy advertising. You buy advertising from advertising companies. These people lie all the time. It’s amazing.

The difference between them and the person who has bipolar disorder who lies in an episode is they do it on purpose to con people.

I just had a guy that lied to me for about 8 months about some stuff and he basically stole money from me.

He did it totally on purpose. Anyway I just wanted to talk so more about bipolar disorder and lying. Remember the person that doesn’t lie on purpose and doesn’t know what they are saying and doing is WAY DIFFERENT then the person who lies and knows exactly what they are doing.

Anyway, I hope you’re having a good day.

Today I also want to talk about:

The REAL Bipolar Conspiracy

Many people think that there is a conspiracy by big drug companies to sell people with bipolar disorder lots of drugs and make lots of money off them.

People have said these things about me:

• · That I am a big drug company myself (when they say this I wonder if they mean that I am a building instead of a person?)
• · That I am a tool of the big drug companies
• · That I am an owner of a big drug company (I wish – I’d be rich! LOL)
• · That I love drug companies because someone in my family is the owner of a drug company
• · That I have billions (that’s the term several of people have used) of dollars in drug company stocks

All because I promote that people with bipolar disorder should take their medications.

In my courses/systems below, yes, I do promote that.

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?

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http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11

SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.bipolarparenting.com

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?

Visit:

http://www.survivebipolar.net

I DON”T promote big drug companies.

I DO promote people with bipolar disorder staying on their medication. I even quote the statistics of people who go off their medication and what happens to them. And it isn’t pretty, But it’s the truth.

Here’s the REAL bipolar conspiracy:

Drug companies do not work hard enough, and I repeat, do NOT work hard enough, to sell people on taking their bipolar medication.

That’s because they don’t advertise bipolar medication. It doesn’t make them enough money.

It’s sad, but true. I wish they would spend billions running ads on TV that talked about people who died from stopping their medication. They should show these peoples’ family and friends.

They should show homeless people that once were not homeless but now are because they got off their medication.

They should advertise the statistics of people who die from not taking their medication.

They should show all this to keep people ON their medication. They should just try harder.

But they don’t.

They focus on drugs that make you have sex longer.

They focus on drugs that make you stop going to the bathroom. They focus on drugs that help your bones.

They don’t focus on drugs that will help your mental health though, do they?

Oh, wait – I just saw a commercial the other day for depression. But that was only one commercial.

And we all know that depression is only ONE part of bipolar disorder.

They were advertising for a new drug for depression, not a drug for bipolar disorder.

WHY NOT?

What do you think?

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