Hi,
I am still at my seminar but wanted to
email you part two of the series about
how to get help when you have trouble
with bipolar disorder–whether you
are a supporter or a person with
the illness.
If you didn’t read this part, please
check out:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/2007/05/bipolar-disorder-lesson-have-you-ever.html
Okay, the next part of making a list of
your problems is to rank them in order
of importance and then here comes
the really important part.
You go somewhere where you can
think. I suggest, park, friend’s
house, library, etc.
Once you are there, you take the most
pressing problem
and then put it on a blank sheet of
paper.
Then you brainstorm EVERY possible
solution you have to the problem
really, really fast. There is no thinking
you just write. Some things you might
write might be crazy so to speak.
Just write it all out really fast.
Then after about 15 minutes or
so review your ideas. Then group
them. You will start to see some
possible viable solutions to
your problems.
Then if you find that you don’t have
any solutions, review your most pressing
problems each morning. And then you will
find people, places or things that you
seem to come in contact with that
can help you. Once you find something
that can help, take action and move
forward to solve the problem.
That’s it. This is exactly how I did
it for my mom and other areas in
my life.
Well I have to take off because
I am at that seminar, catch you tomorrow.
SUPPORTING AN ADULT?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarsupporter.com/report11
SUPPORTING A CHILD/TEEN?
Visit:
http://www.bipolarparenting.com/
HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http://www.survivebipolar.net/
Your Friend,
Dave
P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/supporterblog/
P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.
http://bipolarcentral.libsyn.com/
My doctor weened me off of lithium in 3 weeks, because of tremors in my hands.
My whole body went into spasms and shook from head to toe. The same night I went into the hospital, my
arms from my wrists to my elbows went into spasms & my hands kept completely flipping over on me, uncontrollably.
I never had this happen to me before.
I spent 10 days in the hospital.
The doctor then put me back on the lithium, and I am now starting on the climb to recovery.