Hi,
How are you?
I hope you are doing well.
Want to hear something really strange.
Okay, I have been looking for some people to volunteer with some work that I have and also some research and writing people.
So I have had 6 people contact me recently. I have no idea how they got through to me.
Anyway, I was excited because each looked good.
Some had some questions about how our organization worked. We emailed back and forth. After a while, it takes way to long to email back and forth.
So I gave each person my cell phone number and asked them to call or asked them to send me their number and I would call them.
Only ONE person did.
I have no idea what happen to the others.
It’s really strange to me.
Okay, I have a strange story to tell you with a very important bipolar lesson.
Okay, remember the other week, I was travelling all over the place. I went to the Carolinas, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, etc.
Well, okay, on the way home, I was using my GPS system. That’s Global Positioning System.
(You know, that thing that tells you where to drive.)
The strangest thing happened.
Okay, so I wasn’t familiar with the area but I was looking at the directions and they looked “off.”
But then I said to myself, “Dave, it has to be right, it’s a GPS system. What do you know about Virginia, anyway?”
So I was driving and driving.
There was this huge mountain range. The directions were leading me right to the mountains!
I thought maybe it was a shortcut because I put “fastest route” in the system when I got the directions.
So anyway, I’m driving. All of a sudden, I’m going up this HUGE mountain road.
The turns were super sharp. I felt like I could slide off the road at any time.
I started getting worried.
Then all of a sudden I was at the top of the mountain road and guess what?
Take a wild guess?
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The system stopped working!!!!
I was “out of range.”
I was super mad.
I was totally lost for over 2 HOURS!
The system had failed me.
I was thinking about this and asked myself why I followed something that made no sense.
Even when my gut instincts told me that something was wrong, I didn’t listen to them, because I thought the GPS was the expert and I wasn’t, so I followed it even though it made no sense.
BIG mistake!
Well, this got me to thinking about my mom’s old doctor who took her off her medication and didn’t replace it with anything for a few days.
This is a big NO NO with bipolar disorder unless you’re under close, and I mean CLOSE supervision. My mom was not.
Anyway, she went into a super bad episode.
In my courses/systems, I talk about listening to your doctor, because he knows what he’s talking about, and that’s usually true. But I also tell you to watch out for bad doctors (and they are out there), and that’s why I developed my doctor finding system to help you find a good doctor.
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We look to experts for their advice, because we believe they know more than we do.
With bipolar disorder, you look to your doctor to prescribe the right medication for you, watch that medication, change the dosage if necessary, etc.
You look to him to listen to you and what you report to him about how you’re doing with your bipolar disorder.
You look to your doctor as an expert, because to you, he is. Kind of like that GPS system was to me.
But that doesn’t mean he’s always right. Just like that GPS system failed me, there is a chance that your doctor can fail you.
YOU know yourself and your disorder better than he does.
Like I was saying about how I should’ve followed my gut instinct, you should listen to yours, too.
If you feel like something isn’t right, it probably isn’t.
Why did I follow something even though it didn’t make any sense?
Because I thought it was the expert and I wasn’t.
And remember what a big mistake that was for me.
Don’t make that mistake.
Don’t think that just because your doctor is the expert and you’re not, that you should do something that doesn’t make sense to you.
Like taking a higher dose of medication when you feel like you’re doing fine on the dose you’re on That’s happened before. And the person didn’t speak up, even though it didn’t “feel right.” And then they started waking up real groggy.
They should have spoken up, because doctors aren’t perfect, and they aren’t always an expert when it comes to you and your bipolar disorder. You are more of an expert there than they are.
Or if your doctor wants you to change medications and you really don’t have a good feeling about it, or you just don’t want to, because you like the medications that you’re on and you think they’re working ok. What about you?
Have you ever had experiences like these?
Or had something happen where you just had a feeling that something wasn’t right?
What happened?
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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.