Dave,
I have bipolar, have studied mental health nursing and have worked in human services for 18 yrs. I would love to help you respond to all these people needing your help. to help lighten your load as I am scared this is all going to consume you and make you ill then we will have no one. I live in Australia but if there is any way that I can help please do not hesitate to contact me on horses@westnet.com.au I hope I can be of assistance as not only do I believe in you I am also very knowledgeable in this area and how to live with bipolar positively.

God Bless,
Douglas

Dave,

Hang in there and don’t despair! You do so much for so many of us with these e-mails and the information you provided in the articles, etc. You can’t save the world – but you can do the best you can. From where I sit – you give 110% and that is amazing.

There’s a place in the Bible where Moses was being overwhelmed by all the demands put on him by the Israelites. His father-in-law suggested that he choose leaders who would be over 1000s, 100s, etc. who would deal with the people on regular matters and then leave only the most serious cases for him. It worked.

My encouragement to you would be – find knowledgeable and reliable people who can help you with these e-mails and save just a few to deal with yourself. You need to feed yourself, so charging for your courses is no different than a lawyer or accountant charging for their time and expertise. Keep up the good work and know that you are making a difference.

hi, my name is candy i was told when i was about 25 i have BiPolar Disorder. i am now 48.i have been every which way with tis. i am a rapid cycler. my doctor is wonderful, he tells me that type is very hard to treat. muct follow all the rules. as u know being BiPolar this is NOT easy to do. but can be done. now to the point.
i have been turned down from every company it looked at for LIFE INS.
i went throught a bout with hep c, that wasnt even a problem, BiPolar was. so the magic question is how do you get LIFE INS. ?
planing for the future is not so easy.
thank you
candy

Hi David,

We are frazzled, frustrated and besides ourselves. So much to do on our plate with people who think they are “BRUCE ALMIGHTY.”

David, without “GOD, JESUS CHRIST AND GOD’S SWEET, POWERFUL HOLY SPIRIT,” we would be like a “human psychiatrist” who are short of “commiting suicide” because of dealing of “people’s emotional problems.” They are emotional tied down to their patients instead oF “PLUGGING IN THE SUPERNATURAL POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ~ WHO GIVES THEM SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE.”

David, if you are at your wit’s end, tie a knot and “PRAY FOR GOD’S WISDOM!”

David, you are just “great” in what you are doing. GOD IS PLEASED! Do not listen to voices that distracts YOU from doing GOD’S WORKS for you.
GOD’S DESIRE IS “THAT ALL MANKIND ARE HEALED SO THEY CAN “SEE AND ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD!”

David, keep your chin up, looking up to GOD and “SMILE BIG” FOR GOD! TELL GOD THAT YOU LOVE GOD! GOD REALLY DO LOVE YOU AND HAS “CALLED YOU” TO THIS POSITION OF “ending the choatic, devilish, satanic assignments” in everybody’s life.

GOD LOVES YOU!
AND I LOVE YOU TOO!
xena rose

GOD told me: “MY CHILD, CHILL OR DIE!”
David, I did not want to die. I totally surrender my free will to GOD’S WILL AND WAY.
There is so much peace and contentment doing “GOD’S WORKS” in healing these people giving all “THE GLORY TO GOD.”

Dave and others,

It reminds me of a saying from a very prominent past figure who challenged conventional thinking.

“I am only one, but I am one.
I can’t do everything, but I can do something.” Helen Keller

You are doing something and you are only one. May you be richly rewarded for your kindness everyday.

Since coming to this blog I have met some incredible people. As a matter of fact we communicate regularly via email. I needed them as much as they needed me. I thank you for providing this platform so that some of us can network with this illness.

Anyone who wants to chat can email me at tas652@hotmail.com

When you chat with others it helps to relieve some of the stress kind of like therapy. Just to know you are not alone helps greatly. I do have a medical background but will not give medical advice, other than what has worked for me and what hasn’t or anything I have learned from different research I have done on BP and other mental illnesses. I am not a psychiatrist. I do have some background in hypnotherapy, NLP, nursing, recreational therapy, and another lifetime of careers. I have three sons and have been married for 18 years. I understand the highs and lows and try to stay as positive as I can to maintain my illness. I try to remain optimistic and hopeful. Knowing this illness is physiological and not just psychological makes a huge difference. One is curable the other is not!!!

I am a bit sensitive about somethings and need to keep my head above the water so keep in mind that somethings are better left unsaid…such as war details from PTSD. Someone posted a while back some horrific details about a soldier over in Iraq and I still have sleepless nights thinking about it. So just be vague about trauma is all.

Hi David,

I just post a comment to you but, you didn’t get it?

Oh well, I will start again.

David, you are doing just “great” with your “endeavor” dealing with “BiPolar Disease.”

Do not listen to the “voices” that distracts you from “GOD’S WORK IN YOUR LIFE AND ALL OF YOUR STAFF.”
It would give “GOD’S GLORY” 24/7.

At your end of your rope? Just tie a knot and “HANG ON TO JESUS CHRIST!”

There is so much “peace and comfort” when plugged in to GOD, GOD’S SON JESUS CHRIST, AND GOD’S SWEET AND SUPERNATURAL, POWERFUL HOLY SPIRIT for your 24/7 “spiritual directions and responses.
Just “surrender your free will over TO GOD and accept GOD’S WILL AND WAYS in your life.”

All human, secular psychiatrist have the most % of commiting suicide. Without “THE TRIUNE,” all human, secular psychiatrists are “pawns” to all “devilish assignments coming their way.”

Getting emotional and tied down to their bipolars episodes is not “OF GOD!”

We need to be “HEALED AND WELL” before GOD.
HIS HOLY SPIRIT WILL instruct you what to say 24/7.
Ask for GOD’S WISDOM AND A DISCERNMENT HEART IN YOU!
Pray to GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THEN HE WILL ANSWER!

SEEK HIS FACE 24/7.

Doing our “works on our own strength will truly fail!”
We need GOD’S TOOLS in us to EQUIPT us in fighting this dreading dis”ease.”
man’s inherited sin

GOD BLESS YOU, DAVID!
GOD LOVES YOU, DAVID!
and “I love you too!

xena rose
:}

dear dave
how could i be mad at you? you really are a rare and incredible human being. i inquired because i recently had a horrifying experience of being on the receiving end from someone that i thought may have been afflicted with bipolar disorder. fortunately, this person was a roommate only. i was forced to move. however, i don’t ever want a repeat experience and i was trying to find out if this person was bipolar and if so how could i have handled the situation better. i’ve known a few bipolar people and they were kind people and if they were yelling, it was always about a positive thing…or sometimes they would sing loud and fast…yes i was fond of them and i miss them…they passed over. is it characteristic for a bipolar woman to hate other women or other women who appear to be something like their mothers? if you have no time to answer this, i understand.
thank you,
terez

Dave, I dont think anyone would be mad at you… and I certainly deeply appreciate all your emails and help that it has given me. You are only one person and therefore don’t feel at all guilty….. 🙂
peace and many blessings,
Filiz

DEAR DAVE,
I AM WRITING TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK IN THIS FIELD.I AM FEARFUL THAT YOU ARE CLOSE TO BURNING OUT.I AM A BI POLAR SUPPORTER AND I HAVE GOTTEN A GREAT DEAL OF INSIGHT FROM READING YOUR E-MAILS.MY GIRL FRIEND IS BI-POLAR AND SHE HAS BLOGGED ON YOUR SITE MANY TIMES.KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK DAVE. YOUR FRIEND DAVE IN PERRY,OHIO

TO SUSIE IN WALES,
I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE A VERY KIND PERSON TO GIVE OF YOURSELF TO YOUR ANIMAL FRIENDS AND THEIR BELEAGURED MASTERS.GOD WILL BLESS YOU FOR YOUR CARING AND UNSELFISHNESS. SINCERELY ,DAVE IN PERRY,OHIO,USA

Dave:

All I can say is that I have searched your business for scam comments and not found any. Almost all other web businesses that I have searched for, I have found more scam comments than I could read in my lifetime. I agree with all of the positive respones I have read about you. I have purchased two of your programs and they are well worth the money. Your emails and free information is worth everything I have already spent and they have been free. Your site is one that I have found that gives me hope to go on.

Thanks,

Donald

I look forward to your e-mails of very helpful info. every day,you are a blessing to every one,so slow down a little and take time for your self,we would all be very sad and a lot of us would be lost with out you.you do so much to teach us and our loved ones.I’m stressed out and tired and I don’t even work right now because of a back injury.I need a good nights rest and half a day and I’ll be better,If you need help with any thing just let me know I have a lot of time on my hands most of the time and would love to help you out it would even help me to have some thing to do to get things off my mind.Just let me know how and when,I even have a cabin on the Alabama River you could use to get away if you need,that would really be getting away to you,it might even be to far away but once your here the rest of the world fades away,Thats one of my problems it sucks you in and you can’t leave.I go into town once a month and get what I need, then home again and I’m blessed to have this I couldn’t dill with a big city like New York for very long.But any way just let me know what I can do,I’m sure there are a lot more people out there that would help you out too,you’ve done so much to help us. thank you so much.this invite only goes for David and guest.sorry. Donna (riverrat01@yahoo.com)

Dave – there’s an old saying – “you can’t help others if you can’t help yourself.” You ARE endangering your OWN physical/mental/spiritual health by TRYING to help EVERYBODY.

When I was delusional, I thought I could save the WHOLE world. It was only through trial and error – 2 other manic episodes – that I learned that I could only “save” my little corner of it. Interpersonal relationships ARE where it’s AT. You’re expending your valuable resources (time, energy,etc.) attempting to help ALL the people on your blog.

YES – your daily emails are VERY important in keeping/helping people see what they can do to help THEMSELVES, myself included. I just wish you could get the rest you so desperately need at this time in your life. Your gym activities – and your non-competitive body-building – are your outlets. Have you tried meditating? I use prayer in place of “contemplating my navel,” but whatever “turns you on,” you should do it.

From learning how to help your Mom (and succeeding exceedingly well, I might add), you have helped 200,000 people in their daily struggle with bipolar disorder. I know PERSONALLY that replying on your blog to your daily emails, have helped TREMENDOUSLY in allowing me to keep a “daily journal,” if you will, and learning and teaching others with this insidious disorder.

You must be so EXCITED that soooo many people have signed onto your site! That is SUCCESS if I ever saw it. BUT – if you don’t find time to get away, even for a weekend, if you can’t spare more time than that – you WILL “burn out.”

SO – keep on doin’ that thing you do, in helping not only the people with bipolar disorder, but those who love us, but NOT to the detriment of your own health. We LOVE you, Dave, and all you have done to bring knowledge of bipolar to those who need/want more KNOWLEDGE of how to cope and enable stability.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, from the bottom of my “bottom” for ALL that you do. It is GREATLY appreciated. May God richly bless you in ALL your endeavors.

Dave,
You can choose what to do with your life.When to get rest and when to work.I have bipolar since I was 25 and now I am 32 years old in a country that treats bipolars as skizofrenia.Luckly my family has money so I can be treated abroad,but others doesn’t.I can’t choose when to sleep and when to stay awake-pils do it for me-and not very good.I can bearly get to sleep 4 hours in 2 days.Here it is hard for both bipolars and those whom supports them,if any.So do not complain!Your life it is hard but ours it is worst.
ilinca

David,
I think you do a wonderful job helping people. I have found your info so helpful in changing how I deal with my bi-polar daughter and several bi-polar friends. Unfortunately, I didn’t find you in time to prevent the financial hole I got into supporting my adult child. I’m doing so much better now and so is she. I’m looking forward to the time when I get back on my feet financially and can order your courses. In the meantime, please keep up the good work. I share your info with my friend who doesn’t have computer access. She has a 28 year old bi-polar son and is bi-polar herself. We have formed our own little support group with the guidance from your mini-courses. We are both disabled and on pensions, but we feel we’re pulling out from under the financial mountain we let our kids bury us under. They couldn’t have done it without our co-operation. So, thanks to you, we have quit co-operating and enabling them. We are using your ideas to improve our communication and encourage them to take responsibility for themselves. So far, so good. Thanks again. You have made a huge difference in our lives and our children’s futures.
Love,
Jeanine

peanut.
I can empathise, as I expect my 9 year olds would with your boy! I too blow up every now and then. Of course, kids can stretch the patience of a saint at times, as my previous pDoc would emphasise. But what he didn’t seem to get – but I’m sure you DO – is that we know our reactions AT TIMES to the kids misbehaviour can be completely out of proportion. That’s how it can be when we’re hypo, isn’t it.

So, what do I do when I’m like that? Well, once before I told them about my BP and how it can affect me. When it occurs and I blow fire, after I calm down, I apologise and remind them of why it happens, and then apologise again. To be honest, I don’t know if they REALLY understand the reason for these outbursts of anger, but I am fairly sure they understand an apology! But the thing that bothers me is if I will one day blow way out of line and hurt them – now, that scares the sh#t out of me! I think I may have to create some kind of contingency plan for this, like put in place an emergency contact telephone number they can use if I ever go completely over the top.
GFor I don;’t know – difficult call because – well, you know boys – theres a risk they’ll call in the cavalry for the next time they get told off in a legitimate way!!!

Diana reports, “Don’t forget, many doctors think that bipolar is primarily a sleep problem!”
WHAT??! Would that be too much or too little sleep??!

God help if we must suffer doctors like these … I can imagine hundreds of BP folk in full mania, their faces smothered by face masks connected to CPAP machines, all so delusional they think they are WW2 fighter pilots … quite probably on suicide missions … It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.

Dave,
I have been reading your emails for several years now and am eternally grateful for each one of them and the time it takes for you to write and send them to us. Don’t take it personally that some folks are negative and accusatory about your business. You have a legitimate product and every right to make a profit from all of the work and research you have put into it. If I could afford it, I’d purchase it myself, and maybe someday, I’ll be able to do that. Just keep doing your best as you have been. Some people are never pleased and never happy no matter what you do for them. You should feel good about what you do for others and smile every single day because you are helping to make life a little easier for some people who appreciate it very much.

kaynonna

Omg. Please see my earlier comment about the credit card charges from your company “Leverage”. My husband is freaking out on me. Because I don’t have any memory of ever giving out my credit card number to you or any of your companies my husband now thinks that because of my bipolar there are probably other charges from other on line places coming. For you to have done this to people you are supposed to be helping is just unconconscionable. I really need answers to this right away. I don’t know how to give you the information to call me NOW. Obviously you have my credit card information somehow, so I assume you can get my phone number. I have left it on the voicemail when I call the Lerverage phone number. My husband has now taken away the only credit card I have access to and has cancelled it. I had to earn back the trust to have it in the first place. I need answers about this right now. I am sure all the other people who read this will be very interested in these answers also. Please reply. My husband is really freaking out. I don’t want to go into an episode over this. Thank you for a very quick response.

venuskitty,
Hang in there…my husband has done the same thing to me. Let me know if you want to talk and I’ll give you my email address.
Susan

I’m glad to see other people can’t sleep at night.I could really use some one to talk to when I’m up pissed cause I’m up, alone and knowing I have a lot of things that has to be done and deep down knowing there is no way in heel it’s gonna happen,like this morning for example I couldn’t sleep and I hope Dave doesn’t see this part, but I have been with out my Meds.for three days as of this morning and as it got late (early)I mean, I knew I needed to get my Little girl up and ready for school and then get my meds.from the drug store that I should have went and got two days ago but I just couldn’t make myself but any way I was trying to work up the courage to call my Mom and ask her to please help me by going to the drug store to get my med.and bring it to me and then take my little girl to school (my mom can see the school from her kitchen window).I live about 15 miles from town and my Mom lives right in the middle of town.Pretty much she told me told me HELL NO and hung up the phone.I knew it wasn’t the thing for me to do but I didn’t have any one else.My Mom and Step Dad refuses to learn any thing about my illness and that can be very lonely at times.I want to order the booklet for your loved ones to help learn more about this but I don’t really have a credit card to use so if you get time some how to contact me and then I can place a order or it would be nice if other people who have books and send them out to other people who have no way of ordering information and then they send it back to the very kind person they got it from or pass it on to the next poor soul that can’t.not to hurt Dave’s profit cause we know it does take a lot of time and money to be able to put this kind of information we are so blessed to receive from this angle David Olive we have all grown to love for helping so many.My offer still stands on the get a way to the river Dave when you get to the point you can get a way.I promise you’ll really love it down here and no one would bother you if thats what you wish.I might try and get some information on holding a class on BP in my area once a week I just need to think of the right person,I know a lot of Judges and Attorneys that are real good friends of mine and some local officers at the police dept.that maybe they know who to talk to on educating family members, friends and police force member and local ER staff members on how to respond to people they treat or arrest ,then they would know that some people can’t help their actions with out the proper medications.I hope you can understand this e-mail for some reason I can’t think tonight but I got my meds.and feeling better.I enjoyed reading every body comments this evening it’s really is nice to know I’m not alone in bipolerville.talk to ya’ll tomorrow. Donna

Hey Jeanine seen your post about the credit card thing I didn’t think about calling the number and when I I got no info on leaving a message to some one on how to contact me on a way of ordering,I would like to know if there is a easier way.

Jeanine/venuskitty,
The problem you know of with credit cards isn’t one we have to suffer in the UK, If an unexplained charge is made to the account, or a double charge – whatever, a charge that ought not be there – all we have to do in the UK is call the credit card company and THEY sort it out AFTER reimbursing you. I think this is a Banking Code agreement rather than something enshrined in Law.

Dave,

How can you help me believe that you really exist? Everytime you write me, doubts and questions run through my mind.
Does being skeptical to lot of things incluyding the beauty of lif is part of being bipolar? or am just imagining things/
Florencemay

To Cathee,

I read your post and I could relate to so much of what you wrote.
When I’m in the manic stage, I too write long lists of things I’m going to accomplish. Along the way it becomes overwhelming and then I lapse into a depressive state. I begin to feel incredibly guilty for not getting everything done. I am so much more creative in the manic phase. (I’m a writer)And I try to do as much as possible while “up”. I try so hard to hang on to that feeling. I never know, of course, how long it will last. Or how to get a handle on not spiraling down to that deep abyss of the depressive cycle. I read inspirational & spiritual books and that helps and I journal everyday to track my moods and just write about my life. I have been doing this most of my life.
The biggest problem is people in my life, mostly family, my children, my siblings, who think I don’t really have this disease. They tell me I could have just memorized the answers to the questions a Dr. asks and then voila I’m diagnosed Bipolar. I’m done explaining and defending myself. They don’t bother to educate themselves and I can’t keep being responsible for sending articles etc., on the this illness. But it hurts a great deal. Just recently I’m re-establishing my close relationship with my daughter. (it was not so much she didn’t believe I had/have the illness but couldn’t understand,that because I had always been a very strong woman why I couldn’t learn to control the illnes instead of the other way around.)My son-in-law to be, (this Sat.) simply doesn’t believe I have the illness and those is no reason I should not be fully functioning and back to “normal”. My son, 20 years old, just recently (8 months ago) starting letting out all the anger he felt during the worst of times with me.(he keeps things bottled up)(my daughter is ten years older)So my son went through 8 years of this with me. (I broke down when he was 11.) I always kept my feelings inside and due to a lot of traumatic events it triggered my “break down” and then after years of mis-diagnosis, the wrong meds and therapist, I was finally diagnosed and am now on the right meds.
I struggle everyday and have not found a psychotherapist, only a Psychiatrist that monitors my meds. I do this on my own. But, I’m finally what is considered high functioning and am re-joining the world. It’s like discovering so many things for the first time.
Tks for reading such a long post. It’s so great to have people that can relate to exactly what I feel.
If you would like to write me, let me know.
Paula

Dear David, I have a husband and a son who are bipolar. Both are doing well. I am writing you to tell you to take care of yourself. You are no good to those of us who need you if you let yourself get burned out or get sick. We love you, The Skeltons