Hi,
How’s it going?
Over the last week or so, I have been talking about my new resource titled:
“7 Secrets To Supporting A Child Or Adolescent With Bipolar Disorder.”
It’s located at:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/specialoffer/7secretschild/
This is primarily written for you, the person supporting the child or adolescent with bipolar disorder.
The reason why I wrote this guide was because there is so little practical and useful information on how to support a child or teen with bipolar disorder.
I see soooooo much bad information out in society when it comes to bipolar disorder and children it’s scary.
For example, if you are supporting a teen or child with bipolar disorder, I am totally 100% opposed to using too much labeling for them.
For example, I would never say there was a bipolar child or bipolar teen.
Think about that for a second. That means the child or teen is bipolar? You wouldn’t say that a teen or child is cancer would you?
Seriously. Would you say, he’s a cancer child? Of course not. Think about that for a second.
I firmly believe you have to be really careful with your language and what you say to your child or teen.
Use has bipolar disorder or have bipolar disorder.
So say, “John you have bipolar disorder.”
See the difference?
Also, make sure that you stress that lots of other people have bipolar disorder and your child can be a success and do anything else other kids without the disorder can.
Many people who work for me report that the HATED when people would say they were broken or mentally ill as a child. To this day, my mom takes great offense to how she was treated as a child and teen by some people.
That’s another one, be really careful saying a child is mentally ill. Think about what that sounds like. If you keep saying that over and over again it start to seriously impact a child, teen or adult for that matter really negatively.
They start to think, “am I normal? Can I have a job? Will I survive? Am I dumb?”
Remember that how you treat a child and teen will manifest itself years and decades later. Make sure you are mindful of the things I talked about today.
With my new resource, there may also be parts that you will want to go over with your child, or even some that you will want your teenager to read for themselves.
For more information on how you can support a child or teen with bipolar disorder, please visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/specialoffer/7secretschild/
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.