Bipolar? Have This 5-Letter Word in Your Loved One

Hi,

How’s it going?

I hope you’re having a good day today.

Today I want to talk to you about a simple 5-letter word that you should have in your loved one:

FAITH

Now before you go running away thinking I’m going to preach at you, please hear me out.

Faith is simply believing in something you can’t see right now.

That’s all.

But it is a belief.

It’s choosing to believe.

It comes down to a choice.

You can choose to have faith or not to have faith.

Too many people assume faith has to do with religion.

And for some people that’s true.

Faith is a part of their religion, or their religious practices.

Something that comes from their heart.

In their case, their belief is in a Higher Power, something (someone) greater than themselves.

But even if you’re not religious, you can still have faith.

You can still believe in something that comes from your heart.

You can have faith in your loved one.

If you care about someone, you can have faith in them.

You can believe in them.

You can have hope that your loved one will get better.

Remember what I said about faith being believing in something you can’t see right now?

Well, you can believe in your loved one’s stability even though they may not be stable right now.

Here’s a few examples to show you what I mean:

You can’t see electricity, can you?

Yet when you turn the switch, you believe the light will turn on.

That’s having faith.

You believe in something that you can’t see.

You can’t see wind, either.

It’s not something you can exactly touch.

Yet you have faith that it’s there.

You can see the results of it.

It’s the same with your loved one’s stability with their bipolar disorder.

As you see them progress…

As you see them change…

As you see them grow…

As you see them get better…

As their episodes become farther apart…

You can believe in faith that they are becoming more stable.

You can’t see stability any more than you can see electricity or the wind.

But you CAN see the results of it.

One of the things I talk about in my courses/systems is watching for signs/symptoms of a bipolar

episode.  But you can also watch for signs of improvement as well.

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

You can have faith that if your loved one takes their medication as prescribed, that medication will work.

You can have faith that if your loved one goes to their therapy sessions, those therapy sessions  will help your loved

one get more stable.

And you can have faith that, with your love and support, and hard work on your loved one’s part, that success and a “normal” life is possible for both of you!

Do you have faith in your loved one?

Do you have faith in your future?

  1. Thank you David for confirming my FAITH that my God and Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ is in control of all things….including this bipolar that my husband has recently been diagnosed with. HE, the Lord, will see both of us through this and enable us to help others in similar positions.

    Thank you and the Lord bless you that you are able to help many people ‘out there’

    (I am British, my husband is American and until I came to the US I had never heard of bipolar, but I am learning about it in much the same way you did)

    Thanks
    Laura

  2. I heartily concur with what Laura has to say. “Faith” does not have to be a religious term, but normally, it is. I have had “faith” in my recovery in bipolar disorder for as long as I’ve been diagnosed. I refused to take it “lying down.” I was DETERMINED that “it” wouldn’t “win” in my life.

    As Christ said – “I have overcome the world.” Well, I haven’t exactly “overcome” ANYTHING; but I am living as if I have. With the help of tweaked meds and talk therapy, I am slowly, but surely, coming out of my mixed episode.

    Alas, I’m extremely dizzy now, with double vision and blurred focus. My PCP is sending me to an eye doctor this afternoon, and I hope the prognosis is good. I Googled “double vision,” and there are a LOT of bad things it could mean. I’m going to this appointment with the hope that it’s something “fix-able” and NOT serious. Please pray for me that I receive a clear bill of health.

    BIG HUGS to all bipolar survivors and those who love us. May God bless you real good. I pray for my country.

  3. Good to see the notes here. Just so you know, there are two aspects of what you have shared in your ‘letter everyone’ First, The Faith that you have mentioned is something that God did give to all human beings, it’s the object of that faith that makes it a difference. For Christians, the faith is in God, and for those who don’t believe in God, even though HE was the One who allowed them to be born, in His Image whether you believe it or not, does not change that fact. And the fact that He gave to all human beings the desire to worship, whether they realize it or not, they just don’t all know that when they put their life involvement into their work, or their hobby, or their ‘habit’, depending on what that might be, that is the ‘idol’ that has replaced their need to actually worship GOD Himself. Politics, sports, missuse of money anything, can become an idol to replace that ‘vaccume’ in the heart and until the LORD Jesus Christ is actually made to be Lord in one’s soul, that person is totally lost, and for those who struggle with their minds, emotions and psychcological conditions etc, it is an especially difficult area to work with from those who are in the medical field, as there are other factors involved, and that gets to a point of troubling issues. But back to the other verse in mind, Hebrews is the book where Faith is the thing that one has in God even though you may not see HIM physically, He is there in Spirit. The other reference you didn’t give, is in Romans, chapt. one, which also mentions the desire of man to worship, and he will worship whatever his religion may be, whether it is athiesim, or a religion that man makes up or has come to from demonic influences . All these oppose the True Christian faith, as they do not want to accept that fact that Jesus Rose from the Dead. That He is coming back, and that the world will be destroyed one day from man’s rampant sinful nature, and the evil one will have power for a short time, but that is getting ahead of myself in the things you have discussed earlier. Just know that God gave all human beings the capacity to have faith in HIM, but He also gave them a free will to choose HIM. He doesn’t want robots, or puppets, He wants to have you because His Son died for all of man’s many sins, and that all who choose to do so may be able to put their faith in HIM and recieve Salvation from Hell, (i.e. to not go to Hell, but to go to Heaven instead) that is an eternal place of destruction, punishiment and separation from God Himself. The soul will live eternally whether in Heaven or Hell,there is no inbetween. I wanted you to know that whether you choose to believe it or not, is your free will being exercised.

  4. Wavering faith, nearly extinguished 100 times, but yes the flame still burns with hope. . .

  5. Hi! I read everything you sent me about bi-polar. I am bi-polar II and I have a sister that is bi-polar I.
    Life has always been hard for us and it took me a long, long time to find out what was wrong with me. I have many other things wrong with me like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibermyilgia, asthma, allergies, depression, proable MS, severe sinus problems, athritis, headaches.
    So as you can see I am dealing with a lot. I am on disablity and trying to hold on to my home. Life sure sucks, I have always said if it were not for bad luck I wouldn’t have any. Anyway, thank-you for sending out info to people like me. I wish I could afford your book, but I just can’t right now. Just wanted to thank you for all the info.
    Linda

  6. Dear Dave,
    I absolutely concur: to be a great supporter one has to have faith, buckets of it. Even when the current situation is so bleak and there seems to be no way forward- to all of you supporters out there, have faith your loved one will recover from BP!!!!
    A supporter needs to step away from nay sayers and negative voices of friends and well meaning family: and no matter what is going on, support their loved one in the spirit of that faith.
    My daughter and I are in the new normal part of our lives as a little family ,this includes her two children as well. My daughter has a new position as a senior research assistant at Auckland university, she gained this position yesterday.I am so proud of her , she has worked so hard to come back from her private hell, at times I watched on the sideline as she struggled and I wept for her pain but I always kept faith in her , I knew she could do it,she fought her battle with her private demons to first accept her condition, then to take the neccessary steps to fight BP, and she did it all to stay alive to be with this little family. the progression of Rachel from her private hell to her current stability has taken her a long hard 5 years.
    I love my daughter, I love our new normal life.
    Thank you Dave for all your emails they truelly have helped me to keep the faith.
    Regards
    Shona

  7. To SHONA: I’m sooo proud of Rachel, but even MORE proud of YOU, for being with her through her five-year struggle to maintain her recovery status. It’s really the FAITH of the Supporter that gets us through the rough spots, and only a loving Mother’s help and concern can bring us to the “new normal” that you are enjoying so much now.

    All my best to you and your “little family!”

  8. Dear Dave et al,
    Lynn here, recovering alcoholic, living w/Bipolar II every day. Dave, did you know that some of the things you said, come RIGHT FROM THE BIBLE? Christ said we can’t see where the wind comes from, or where it goes. And it’s a VERSE that says, ‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for, but not yet seen,’ or something like that. It’s been thru being active in Alcoholics Anonymous that I’ve gotten to rediscover my God, and to have a ‘spiritual awakening’ that the Program talks abt. Anyways, thanks for letting me share.

  9. Yes, I have faith in my boyfriend, that he will get better. I have faith and hope that my love and support will help him. I don’t always have faith in his meds, as the doctors have not yet found the right cocktail that really works for him. They change the dosage from time to time. Zyprexa has made him gain nearly 4 st, as well as made him too subdued. All the passion has gone out of him and the depressive episodes are lasting longer. The therapist was completely wrong for him and got him stressed, so the psych now agreed that he doesn’t need the sessions anymore. It may take a while for the doctors to find the right cocktail of meds, but I put my faith and trust in them that they will. Some day my boyfriend will be the creative, sexy, fun-loving man he was when I first met him.

  10. I am married with 3 kids. my last child is just 4 mths old and she is being breatfed exclusively. I notice I just keep working and i sometimes don’t know how to keep calm, though most of the time i get seriously depressed. My spouse does not have a paid employment which makes my case more stressful. Right now i am feeling severe pain in my joint and i have to keep working because my kids needs to be taken care of.

    I am on 2mg of risperidone (risnia) and 100mg of Tegretol with folic acid. If i complain of pains to my doctor he would place me on medications that would probably knock me off my feet.

    Above all, i love God and i really want to live the rest of my life for him. But i don’t know alot of things are i my hands. God is been good to me and also helpful. Love you all Bipolar colleagues. Bye!

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