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Hi,

First I wanted to say welcome to all the
new subscribers to this bipolar newsletter.
Yesterday we got around 2800 news subscribers
in one day.

How are you? I have to go really quick today
so I have to make this daily bipolar email
on the shorter side.

Tomorrow I have some really interesting things
to send to you.

Today I wanted to tell you about this major
bipolar success story.

About 2 years ago, there was a person that
called me up (when my home phone number was
all over my sites), and it was like 3:00am
in the morning.

I can pretty much recall the story well
because I took notes. Here is goes:

I was dead tired. Anyway, he was kind of rambling
I thought. I wasn’t sure if I was so tired
that he really wasn’t rambling but I was
imagining it.

Anyway, he started telling me how he was “so
done” with his wife because her bipolar
disorder was out of control.

He said there was no hope. He was calling
me before he decided to leave her in the morning.

I woke up and got out of bed. So I asked him
what happen and why he was “so done.”

He said that his wife was a great person
that he loved for many years but then in the last
couple of years she started getting worse and
worse like he said happen to my mom.

I listened carefully.

He then said like 3 years ago she was found to
have bipolar disorder.

He said, “I can deal with that.”

He went on to tell me how over the last
year or year and one half she was out
of control.

He said how she had stolen money from the
family. Spent a ton of money. She had made
up all kinds of lies. She was yelling
and screaming at him breaking down
his health.

I then asked about what doctor she was
seeing. He then cut me off and said she
had been to EVERY doctor possible. All kinds
of therapists and tried EVERY possible bipolar
medication.

He said to me that everything was tried
and there was no chance for success.

He then went on and on and on and on about
how bad it was. How he couldn’t deal with it
anymore and that if he kept going, he
was going to have a stroke.

I then cut him off and said, I need to
ask you some questions and I need one line
answers or yes/no nothing more.

I said, “agree or disagree?” He then rambled
and I said, “okay, I can’t help, you can’t follow
the rules and I laughed.” He laughed and said,
“okay” I can do that.

-Did you guys shop for a doctor?
-Are you working with the doctor to inform him/her
what’s going on with your wife?
-Are you informing the therapist?
-Does your wife have access to your finances?
-Are you arguing with your wife every day?

In my courses/systems for bipolar disorder,
I talk about the questions to ask yourself
and what you should and should not do:

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Visit:
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Then I asked a bunch of other questions.

His answers were, they didn’t shop for a doctor.
They had no system to do that. He was no allowed
to talk to his wife’s doctor. She wasn’t seeing
a therapist. He was arguing with her every
single day he said for up to 10 hours a day.
His wife was paying the bill still but he
was “trying” to take that away from her.

I told him, “I am going to give it to you
straight.”

Actually, then I gave him my normal disclaimer.

I am NOT a doctor, therapist, lawyer, insurance
person or other kind of professional. I am NOT
offering medical, legal or professional advice.
If you are looking for advice of this nature, please
contact someone else.

He was like “yea, yea I know that. Tell me how to
help her.”

I said, “You’re doing everything wrong. Sorry.
But you can turn this around if you want
to. I am confident in you.”

I then told him to grab a pen and I grabbed
one of my bipolar supporter manuals and simply
read the key points to him and explained it
to him.

I told him the things he needed to do and
he agreed with me.

I told him how you have to shop for a doctor and
not just take any random person.

I told him about my “stand up to bipolar disorder” strategy
and how arguing with his wife for 10 hours a day was
a total waste of time. How do I know? Well I argued
with my mom for about 5 to 6 hours a day every day
for months. I thought I was going to drop dead myself.

He can’t out argue a bipolar episode.

So we talked a long time until like 5:00am and I could
tell he felt better.

He asked if he could buy my course from me over the
phone and I said, “I am way too tired to take any
orders just get it online.”

He did.

I thought for sure he would use the FREE consultation
certificates in my course and contact me later. He never
did.

But never heard from him again until recently.

He contacted me and said that his life has totally turned
around.

He followed my advice and used my doctor finding
system. He had a doctor contact him and say
he could help his wife.

He then worked with the doctor to keep him
informed. At first his wife refused to give
him the ability to talk to the doctor. He easily
got around that with all the strategies.

He actually laughed and said to me that
my strategy to get around a person not allowing
communication with a doctor is so easy it almost
doesn’t even matter if the person does or doesn’t.

He then said he didn’t like talking to doctors
anyway so it was great that they never were talking
back to him anyway :).

He took control of the finances and he saved
a whole lot of money.

She is now doing great. Totally stable and working.
She is totally recovered and realizes what she
has to do to be stable.

He said to me it was so crazy how she went from
totally out of her mind to totally normal as he
put it. He was amazed the difference a good
doctor and medication makes.

I then asked if his wife was self functioning
and he said “ABSOLUTELY!?” He said you couldn’t
even tell she had bipolar disorder and she is
doing great.

Oh he also mentioned that she is seeing a therapist
and him/her agreed she should even though she
is stable and doing great.

I wanted to pass along this message because many
times we hear about the doom and the gloom. I have
to write about doom and gloom because that’s
important but I also want to balance with
success stories. I get tons of them.

No matter how bad your situation is, there is someone’s
who is worse and someone who has overcome it.

I have seen people come back from the worst of the worst
situations. My mom was a really bad situation but
not even close to the “really” bad ones.

I always no that it’s possible to turn it around.
It just takes strategy and time. Even if you look
at the people who work for me with bipolar disorder,
you’ll see that it took time and a strategy.

I have one person that was unstable for years
and years and years. They wanted to permanently
put her in an institutionalize and finally she
figured out a system to control bipolar disorder
about 5 years ago. Now today she is stable,
has a family and works for me.

Imagine the person I told you about today
gave up on his wife. Then imagine she
was on the streets or something. The difference
between her success and lack of success was
him a good strong bipolar supporter.

If you have bipolar disorder a good supporter
is important but not a requirement. Increasingly
I will share stories of people who had no
supporters and got their bipolar disorder
under control.

Well with that said, I have to take off. Have
a great day and I will catch you tomorrow.

Your Friend,

Dave

P.S. Don’t forget to take a look through the
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to help you with a different area of bipolar disorder whether
you have it or you are supporting someone with it.
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P.P.S. Check out my Free blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
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