Bipolar Supporter Blog

Hi,

How are you? I am not doing well. My back is killing
me. I feel like someone is stabbing me. I actually
hurt myself training last night.

I should be better in about a week. The reason
why I am telling you this is not so you can
feel sorry for me but because it was my hurt
back that triggered me to send you
this specific email today.

After I hurt my back, I called a person
I know that is a doctor. I wanted to
find out what he recommended. I told him
exactly where the pain was, what happen,
how I felt in about 3 minutes.

He immediately gave me a number of recommendations
and since this is the 3rd time that I hurt
my back in the last couple of years, he recommended
that I start to do two more exercises to help
to prevent this problem.

BUT, in talking to him, I thought of something
related to bipolar disorder–the right
way and the wrong way to ask for him.

Many people need help when it comes to bipolar
disorder. I am sure that is not news to you.

The problem is 99% of people do NOT ask for
help in the right away. My dad is a good
example.

When my mom use to go into an episode, he would
simply either not ask for help, or wait until
the last minute when things were a crisis.

But that wasn’t even the worst of it. When
he would take my mom to the hospital, he would
not be clear as to what he was seeing. He would
kind of ramble and tell a big long story
instead of get to the point.

Unfortunately, hospital people are super busy
and don’t have time for big long stories. So
many times, my dad’s message would get lost
and the things that needed to be relayed
to the hospital people were never relayed.

As a result over the years, I am sure
my mom came in on the wrong track and probably
didn’t get the best care.

Recently, about a month and half ago my mom
went into a brief episode. I say brief
because I caught it. Anyway, my dad called
me to say “mom’s getting sick.” Again
he still uses the term sick which
is a whole other story that I will
tell you about some other day.

I asked “why do you say that?” Then
he tells me a really long story which
after 20 minutes I still don’t even understand
what signs and symptoms he is really seeing.

I ask specific questions

Is she sleeping?
Is she cooking random food?’
Is she trying to spend extra money?
Is she talking on the phone a lot?
Is she doing a ton of cleaning?
Does she lack the ability to focus and concentrate?

He answered yes to all these questions and then
I knew it was time to take action.

So I basically evaluated my mom when I saw her.
NO I am not a doctor and I did NOT diagnose
or treat her. I simply looked at her and
asked questions.

Then I looked at my worksheets from old episodes
and my notes from her first episode and concluded
she was going into an episode. I took all
the information and immediately sent it
via email to her doctor.

That was that.

The problem that I see when people need help
with bipolar disorder is that they are not
clear. They don’t get specific. Unfortunately
the vast majority of people do NOT have the
time to hear long stories and rambling.

You have to get specific. If you need help,
ask specifics. For example,

I need help finding a qualified doctor
to help my loved one

I need help getting out of d.e.b.t

I need help finding a therapist.

I need a step by step system on what I
should do when my loved one starts
yelling at me.

We want to have a baby, we need
information on how to handle bipolar
disorder and a pregnancy.

See how these are specific questions and
not a lot of rambling? Also, you have
to be respectful of people’s time. I get
on the phone with people that seriously
want me to spend hours if not days answering
every single question they have and I can’t.

Doctors report to me the same problem
they have. Therapists tell me the same
as well.

Many times, 99% of the questions people
have are in my courses which are here:

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

People think that I am being mean when
I won’t spend 5 to 10 hours on the phone
going over exactly what is in my course.

Anyway, I have to take off now. Have a great
day. I hope you didn’t get offended with my
email.

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

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There’s some really interesting news stories this week. Take a look at them. Also, write me some feedback by visiting my blog below.

Here are some of the headlines:

New mom braces for hard time in state prison

Curidium Develops Blood Diagnostic Test For Schizophrenia/BipolarDisorder Patient Subgroups

She’s bipolar and prepared to tell the world

A woman screaming for help…

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Your Friend,

Dave

Hi,

How’s it going? Before I get started, you may remember
that I sent out a link for j.obs that I was looking
to hire people to help out with a number of jobs
related to this entire organization.

There were many very qualified people that replied
and I really need the help. Yesterday I had
like 53 phone messages for me. I have people
calling on every line that I own
and I am not even sure how people are getting my
number. I had hundreds of emails as well.

On that note, if you call and want to “talk”
there’s no way that I can do it. There aren’t
enough hours in the day. When I started this
organization with bipolar disorder I NEVER
ever thought it would get this big so fast.

It’s growing super fast. There are many people
all over the world dealing with bipolar disorder.

Okay, enough with that, let’s talk about
today email. There’s a word that is
really powerful with bipolar disorder.

A word that both supporters and survivors
who are dealing with bipolar disorder can use.

Here’s what this word does

Helps prevent episodes
Saves money
Protects finances
Saves time
Keeps a person with bipolar disorder on track

What’s this word? Take a guess and then scroll…

Did you guess? Then Scroll down….

The word is “NO.” You may be confused. What
the heck is Dave talking about. Maybe he’s
“crazy.”

NOTE-It’s funny to me if I have
a typo or say something strange I get
emails asking, “do you have bipolar
disorder?” I write back, “Are typos
or saying funny things, part of the criteria
to have bipolar disorder?”

Okay back to NO. I noticed when I look
back over the years with my mom. It was
not saying no to various things that
created a whole lot of problems.

Let’s look.

NOT saying no led to:

Spending on c.redit cards

100% of the time my dad said “Yes”
to everything my mom wanted to do
and was doing even if she was in
a bipolar episode. It made no
sense.

When I took over helping my mom in 2005
or so, I started saying no and things
started improving.

When
she wanted to spend more money on her
c.redit cards I said no. When she
said she wanted to not go to therapy
to save money, I said no. (She
wanted me to agree with her when she
was in an episode).

When she said she wanted to go
get a six figure job to pay
off her d.ebt when she was
still in the out patient program
I said no.

I said no over and over. My dad
found it rather hard and many times
would want to agree with my mom on
things that she wanted to do or
wanted even though they made no sense.

Now before I get a bunch of hate mail
saying “you control your mom”; “
you are mean”; “you are a bad person”;
“you are a bully”; “I would never let you
tell me no”; so and so forth, let me
say that my mom is HAPPY that I said
no to her.

By me saying no back in the day, her
life is way better today. If I said
yes to many things, she would have
tremendous problems now. If you
asked her, she would tell you this.

For example, if I said “Go ahead
spend more money on your c.redit
cards” she probably would have
$60,000+ d.ebt right now.

If I said, “I don’t care, don’t
go to the doctor or therapy.”

She would have serious problems.

When you are a supporter you have
to stand firm on the right things.

By doing so, you can help your loved
one make better choices when they
need guidance during a bad period.

What you don’t want to do, is say
yes to everything and go along with
things that make no sense that your
loved one will get mad at you in
the future and ask “Why didn’t
you stop me…or why did you
go along with these ideas?”

NOW IF YOU HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER

NO is powerful as well. You have
to say no:

Staying up late
Having lots of stress in your life
Bad jobs
The urge to not go to the doctor
The urge to not take your medication
The urge to not follow doctors orders.

Etc. In my Bipolar Success and Supporter
Courses/System you hear many people talk
about how powerful the word no is, and
how that’s what transformed their
lives–this is both supporters and people
with bipolar disorder.

If you want more info on this, look
at the links below.

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

Hi,

I really have to keep it short today. Yesterday
I sent out a daily email about how I was
attacked by someone who got one of my
courses.

For the entire story visit:

Anyway, thank you for all the responses on
my blog. Many people have said that this woman
who was a supporter of someone who has bipolar
disorder…well that’s what she told me,
probably had bipolar disorder herself.

I respectfully disagree with this. I do say
respectfully because I totally value every ones
opinion and who knows if I am right. I certainly
am not right all the time. Like when I am driving
with map and constantly make the wrong terms
and 1 hour trips turn into 3 hours trips 🙂

Anyway, here’s what I see with that person. I think
that this person is being destroyed by another
person with bipolar disorder who is not being
treated properly.

I showed my mom the story and she said to me:

“Wow that’s terrible. You should have hung
up on the lady….Why would she let her
daughter run all over her house?”

Anyway, I would never hang up on someone. I
don’t even hang up on annoying telemarketers
that call to switch my phone service.
I think that’s wrong to hang up on people. I
don’t know why this is programmed into me.

Anyway, here’s the big lesson to learn from
the verbally attacking lady. It comes
down to blame.

She is blaming….

EVERYONE BUT HERSELF FOR HER SITUATION

This is a HUGE mistake. I mean HUGE! I
will say it again.

Instead of her saying, “I got myself into
this situation with my daughter and I have
to work to get myself out of this situation…”
She blames me the other day, when I was
on the phone, she was blaming her daughters
doctors for intentionally creating a situation
where she would have her daughter at home
with lots of kids and have to take care of
everyone.

She also blamed her ex husband who left her
with her “night mare” daughter with bipolar
disorder.

I really think this. If you are a supporter of
someone with bipolar disorder, you have to stop
the blaming game. MOVE ON!

I could have been blaming everyone and anyone
for the tons of money I lost with my mom but
what’s even far worse than that is all the years.
I lost so many years that were suppose to be
fun for me. Years, taking care of my mom, years
working like a slave to pay my mom’s bills,
etc.

BUT, luckily I never thought like this. I just
moved one. I accepted the fact that it was MY
FAULT this happened. I never blamed it on my
mom either.

My mom NEVER put a gun to my head and made me
do anything. NOW, she did manipulate me into
doing things for her but she never forced me.

It was MY fault that I failed to educate
myself about the realities of her illness BEFORE
she took my time and money.

I am NOT a doctor, therapist, lawyer, insurance
agent, etc, but I think that this kind of thinking
is really good. I think if you went to an expert
in this field and asked:

“Is it healthy to blame everyone but you when
lots of bad things go wrong with someone
with bipolar disorder?” I think the answer
would be no. I think you have to take
personal responsibility.

I have noticed the best supporters of people
with bipolar disorder do this. I have noticed
the ones who are not good supporters and not
happy, blame everyone and anyone other
than themselves.

NOTE! This is not just for people who
are supporters of those with bipolar
disorder, it’s also for people with
bipolar disorder.

If you have bipolar disorder, accept
your illness, don’t be mad at everyone
because you have it. Also, take responsibility
for your actions and move on. Learn how to
cope, deal and manage yourself, and be
successful like many people are doing
each and every day.

That’s right, each day there are MANY people
just like you, that are coping and dealing
with bipolar disorder perfectly.

In my courses/systems, you get to hear
from people that tell you exactly how
they do it:

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

I have to run. Have a great day.

Dave

Hi,

I have a REALLY big bipolar disorder
lessons for you today.

What a day I had yesterday. I want
you to read this email carefully.
It’s important.

Okay, yesterday I was working on
some stuff related to all sorts
of things. One of the things I was
working on was different doctors
that I was going to be interviewing
and also the questions for my interviews
for people who have been married HAPPILY
to someone with bipolar disorder for more
than 40 years. I have found these people
and I am very excited to interview them.

So I was working on the questions. About
3:00pm or so EST, I saw that my phone
was ringing. I had some free time so I
decided to pick it up.

It was a woman who said to me, “My
daughter has bipolar disorder and I
sent you an email. Did you get it?”

I said to her, “I am sorry, I get up to
1000 emails a day and can’t read them all.
If you sent it to the feedbacktodave address
then I would read it for sure. Which address
did you send it to?”

Then she screams, “I DO NOT KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU SHOULD NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

BARE WITH ME, THIS IS AN IMPORTANT BIPOLAR
LESSON…

I was shocked and confused. Then she went
on to say how nothing I put out was any
good. She said to me she got my course
and basically it “didn’t say” anything.
I remained calm and said to her, “Okay,
I am sorry about that. Please return
it and I will give your money back.”

Then she said how she filled out one of
my f.ree consultation certificates
for NON medical and NON legal questions
MONTHS ago but I never contacted her
about it.

I said, “Hmm. Let me check my log.” Pascale
told me a long time ago, to have a log
of ALL people who fill out forms and
send stuff to me. So since I am good at
following orders/directions I listen and
do have one.

I said, “When did you send it in?” She
said, “I don’t know January” I said
“January????” She said she thought
so.

There were NO people on my log that I
could not get ahold of since November
2006. There was only 1 last year, that
sent in a form, but I couldn’t get ahold
of. His number was disconnected, and the
mailing address was invalid when I tried
to write a letter.

Then I asked this person when she bought
my bipolar disorder supporter course.

She yelled at me and said, “why didn’t
you help me????” I asked again, “she said
sometime last year.”

I was thinking “last year???” So
then she went on to yell at me, talk really
fast and basically describe her nightmare.

Here’s where you need to learn from her.

She has a daughter who has basically destroyed
her. The daughter is totally out of control
and not following any kind of treatment plan.

According to the woman, she is almost like
a hostage in her own home. She said the
daughter:

Is violent with her
Doesn’t let her use a computer
Has many kids and doesn’t take care of them
Forbids her from going to the doctor
Lies and manipulates her all the time
Has caused her massive debt
Prevents her from reading about bipolar disorder.
on and on.

I swear I have NEVER ever heard anything like
this. This lady honestly sounded like a prison
in like a third world country. Then she
said, “You claim you help people deal
with these people’s bipolar disorder.” I took
that to mean, I help people who are supporters
cope and deal with loved one’s with bipolar
disorder.

So I said “Yes, I do.” Then she said, “I
need help what do I do?”

Immediately, I went into solution mode. I quickly
brainstormed and said to her, “Here’s the situation,
right now, I am not in the best thinking mode. BUT,
I can give you some suggestions what to do,
then I would like 24 hours to brainstorm about
your situation and outline a plan of action. May
I call you back after we cover a quick general
plan.”

Then she screamed at me, “You won’t even help
me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

I was stunned. I didn’t know what to do. I
felt trapped to have to come up with something
that would be guaranteed to work. So I sat down
with a blank piece of paper and started outlining
the plan.

I was really worried, because I had a BIG, and I
mean BIG consulting call coming in for my consulting
business. I was hoping I could get off the phone
and then call the person back. BUT, at the same
time, I had to prepare for my consulting call.

The lady kept screaming and yelling at me
asking me for answers and help and then saying
when I didn’t talk, I wasn’t helping.

I asked her to list her problems. She screamed
at me. So I brainstormed what it seemed like
her problems were.

After 15 minutes, of her yelling at me,
I said, “I have some ideas for you.” She would
not listen. She never even heard me. Then
I waited another 10 minutes. Then,
my consulting call came in on my other line.
I asked her to hold on, she didn’t listen.
I asked over and over and over. The call
went to voicemail. I missed it and had one
chance.

I then tried to help this lady. Then as I
started to talk, she said to me “You aren’t
even listening to me.” At this point, I
was really annoyed. I had a plan for her
and she wasn’t even listening.

Finally, after like 45 minutes on the phone
and getting no where, she said to me, “You
did nothing for me.”

Then I said, I asked her, You got my
course.” She said, “Yes and I paid a lot of
money for it. There was nothing in it!!!!!!!!”

I asked her if she listened to the cds, and she
said no. I asked her if she read the last 20 pages
on how to handle when your loved one wants
more and more from you. She said no, she didn’t
have time and couldn’t.

I was thinking in my head, “No time in 8 months???”

Then she admitted she never listened to any
cds, or read the guide or anything. She really
didn’t go through anything. BUT, she said, she
didn’t have time and her daughter never lets
her.

Then she went on to attack me and say my material
wasn’t good anyway.

At this point, close to an hour, I said, “I have
to go. I spent a lot of time on the phone
with you.” She replied, “I paid for your course.”

I was thinking, paying for my course doesn’t
give you the right to scream, yell and attack
me verbally for 60 minutes. I didn’t say this
but I thought it.

I told her I had to go, and she said “FINE!!!!”
Then she said, “I am really angry!!!! She has
destroyed me” She hung up.

This was the worst call I have ever taken. I swear
it took a lot to not say, “I am never, ever talking
to anyone ever again. I am going to do like
everyone else is, offer material and never talk
to the people.”

Then I went to the gym and felt better. I was
thinking how way off track this lady was.

I TOTALLY didn’t handle the call right. Right
now I am going to bullet point what was done wrong
so you can learn from it.

If you want to know what course/system she is
referring to. I have three main ones:

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

THE WOMAN’s MISTAKES

She is letting someone with bipolar disorder
not really seemingly in any treatment, take
control of her and her house

She is paying for her daughter’s financial
mistakes and it’s destroying her

She is listening to what her daughter
says to do even though she is not well

She is becoming so angry that she is
alienating people around her that can help.
She says she has no friends any more
and people stay away from her.

She NEVER went through my course at
all. Never listened to my cds or read
anything. Every problem she pointed
out to me is 100% covered in my
course. For example, she said her
daughter’s doctor said she can’t
talk to her about her daughter because
of privacy laws. In my course, I have
MANY EASY ways around this.

She is becoming a mean and rude
person who will wind up being alone,
destroyed emotionally, financially
and health wise.

She is forgetting about taking care of
herself.

Anyway, this was one of the most disturbing
phone calls I ever had to deal with. Sad
part is, because I missed that phone call,
I lost that consulting job. I should kick
myself for letting that happen. Really stupid
on my part.

I have to read. Don’t ever let this happen
to you.

Actually one last thing. I told my mom about
this and she said, “If I ever got way out
of control, I want you to put me in the
hospital or do whatever it takes to get
me right away.” My mom went on to
say how she would never want to do what
that lady’s daughter has done to her mother–
which is completely destroy her.

In all my mom’s episodes, she was never
even close to what I heard that lady
say her daughter was doing. I seriously
have never heard things like this.

I have to run. Have a good day.

Dave

Hi,

How are you? I wanted to drop you a quick email
of something that came up yesterday. I spoke
to someone that had filled out one of my
f.ree consultation question certificates
for NON medical and NON legal questions.

This person said to me, “I went through
all your bipolar supporter course material
and it all looks great. I totally agree
and understand what you are saying BUT,
I feel guilty when I do some of the
things you recommend. Even though
I know they are the right thing to
do. What should I do. Please help me.”

Well I got this and called the person
right away.

Guilt is a HUGE problem with the person
with bipolar disorder AND the bipolar
supporter.

When I first started putting a plan
in place for my mom, the plan included
new policies, procedures and rules.

One of the rules was caps on how much
could be spent on groceries and also
NO more using c.redit cards. My mom
was spending up to $1800 a month on
groceries. The max the bill should have
been was $600.

Her c.redit cards were through the roof.
She had over $30,000 of d.ebt and was
being charged a massive 29.9% interest
on almost all cards. It was incredible.

So I cur spending immediately. I took
away her c.redit cards and she went
ballistic on me. I remember one day
I was sitting at a random hospital
getting some paperwork done. Sometimes
I go to random places to do work
when I can’t find somewhere other than
a random place.

Anyway, she called me 14 times in a row.
Call after call. She left angry messages.
She was crying. She was saying I was a bad
son. A terrible person. I took away her
dignity. She wanted me to die. She couldn’t
afford her medication. On and on and on.

She was also calling my dad. He started
calling me asking me if we should give
her maybe one c.redit card. I said NO.
Period. I said if I was going to help
it had to be this way otherwise forget
it.

My dad said how he was feeling guilty.
My mom always knew she could break my
dad down easily. Me it doesn’t work. She
could call me 1 million times and if something
is right, it’s right. I won’t budget unless
there is a logical reason to. There
was no logical reason to give her a c.redit
card. My dad was paying for her doctor visits
and medication. All food was being bought
with a check.

There was no good reason. But I could tell,
my dad felt guilty for the c.ards being taken
away.

Then before this, my mom didn’t want to go
to the hospital. It took me 90 days to figure
out how to get her to go on her own using
one of my 21 techniques that I have.

BUT then when she was in the hospital for
the first day, she wanted to come out and
there was all kinds of drama. She called my
dad and myself collect (a call that cost
like a $100) telling us we were terrible
for bringing her to the hospital. My
dad asked if maybe she should be in the
hospital. I said, “Dad, she was in the
hospital one day and the hospital looks
better than any vacation I have been on in
12 years).

As a side note, I never knew what the inside
of a psychiatric hospital looked like. I
was kind of scared as to what it would look
like when I went. I thought it would look like
something from the movie Silence of the Lambs or
more like a prison.

I was shocked when I went. It looked like a
hotel. There were all kinds of TVs and people
were seeming to have fun. I certainly looked
better than any place I had gone in the past
decade. I know we can debate what the insides
of these places look like and I am sure there
are bad ones but where my mom went was a good
one.

After she got out, she did admit she liked
and everyone was nice and she met nice people.

Anyway, my dad started to feel guilty with
my mom in the hospital.

The list goes on and on. I never felt guilty
doing these various things. Why? Is it because
I am a mean person on a fast track to hell? Is
it because I am soooooo controlling like some
lady wrote on my blog?

NO!

It’s because I knew it was the right thing to
do for my mom. I had done enough research to
know what was the right thing. Now I must
admit, there are certain gray area things
that I had to do that I didn’t know 100%
whether or not it was the right thing to do.

For example, I decided not to pay off my
mom’s d.ebt by taking all my retirement
money and giving it to her. I was considering
this and having her pay me back. I did feel
bad/guilty that she had massive d.ebt and was
going to struggle to pay it off.

I decided against this because I would
be destroying my future which I had already
done already and didn’t want to. BUT, I didn’t
know exactly if this was the right choice.

NOTE-My mom is almost out of d.ebt totally.
I came up with a system you can learn about here
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/debtletter

For most supporters, you are going to feel
guilty doing things that you have not been
doing in the past with your loved one. In
the past, you have probably enabled your loved
one, not been the best supporter, not learned
about the illness, not taken it seriously
enough, given way too much money to your
loved one, fixed all their problems, etc.
etc.

If you look at my courses/systems:

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

You’ll notice that I recommend taking tough
stands. It’s the only way that works.

Today, you hear in my bipolar supporter course/system
what I had to do and the end result which is my
mom is doing better than she has ever done. Things
aren’t perfect but way better than they use to be.

Today my mom is happy I took her c.redit cards away,
happy I let her pay off her own d.ebt, happy
that I got her into the hospital.

Here is an email from her:

————————————–
From:
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 2:30 PM
To: David Oliver
Subject: Good News

Chase credit card statement came in today and all
that is owed is $156.56. I have been trying to pay
this off for over 25 years.
Thanks to your help-this will be the second
card paid off since 2004.
I will be out of d.ebt in 6 months or so.
I appreciate you enlisting me in the Program and making
the system you did. It is a challenge sometime but
I have learned from you how important it is to watch
those pennies and save them.
Also, do no use credit cards-I do not like to
touch them-they make me nervous.
-Mom

==================================

The strange thing is this. If you are supporting someone
not doing well now, most of what you do for them will
make them mad. They will say mean things to you. BUT
overtime, as they get better, most will greatly appreciate
it. That’s the strange thing about this illness.

I have to take off, have a great day.

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

Hi,

Before we get started, I wanted to say…

H A P P Y M O T H E R S D A Y

If you are a mother. Well, I got some bad
news about someone who works for me with
bipolar disorder.

She began going into an episode a few weeks
ago. I detected it. She detected it and
did call her doctor and there were medication
changes.

BUT, eventually that wasn’t enough and she
had to be taken to the hospital. I wanted
to share this story because she is a true
role model and so is her husband.

She practices what I preach in my Bipolar
Success Course (she is actually featured
in it).

Let’s look at some things that she and
her husband had in place:

She had a plan on which hospital to go to

Her husband knew where to take her, and
what the doctor’s phone number is

She had a plan in place if she got
sick on how to inform me

She didn’t fight her husband tooth and
nail because they had a special agreement

Her husband knew the signs to watch for
to determine when she needed to go
to the hospital

Her husband had permission to call me
and let me know what was going on

She had a system in place if she was
to get sick on how someone else could
easily take her place

She did finish her assignments before
she was put into the hospital. (Note
she didn’t have to but was able to…
amazing)

I told a friend about this and he said
“Man it must be hard to work with
all those people with different
disorders.” Actually I don’t think
so at all. I have 4 businesses and
I can compare and contrast.

With the entire organization that
deals with mental health, there is
more redundancy and more systems
in place if someone gets ill. EVERYONE
realizes that they can get ill so
they put a plan in place for someone
who may have to take over.

I am sure we run more efficiently
and effectively than 98% of other
organizations our size.

This particular person who works for
me who has bipolar disorder is truly
a role model and so is her husband.

I will be interviewing her when she
gets back and is okay. Along with
her husband so you can learn from
them even more than what I wrote
in this email.

Here is the things that she has told
me in the past.

You can go into an episode even
if you do everything right.

After episodes I have to look back
to figure out if this was a “freak”
episode or one that was brought on
because of things that were done
incorrectly. I call this post
episode analysis and she engages
in it and involves her husband.

This creates a situation that allows
for on going refinement of her bipolar
stability equation

Also, by her “leveling” with me and
not keeping me in the dark when she
is not doing well, I totally respect
that and when she gets back, she will
have a job.

She is a complete role model. Right now
you might be feeling bad for her. Since
I know her well, I know she would not
want you to feel bad, she would want
you to learn from her.

According to her husband, she is improving
each and should be back in a few
weeks.

She is truly an incredible person. She is
in all my courses/systems as an interview.

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

Have a great day.

Dave

Hi,

How’s it going? I wanted to write you something
really quick about a person that called yesterday.

This person actually got one of my courses/systems
and her daughter has bipolar disorder. She was
a REALLY nice person.

I felt really bad for her because her daughter’s
bipolar disorder was, what I call, running over
her.

Her daughter had run her through the
ringer.

She asked me on the f.ree consultation form
that she sent in for NON medical and NON
legal questions because I am NOT a doctor,
lawyer, accountant, insurance person, etc:),
about what to do concerning her daughter.

It’s kind of a long story so I won’t go
over it here. But the bottom line is her
daughter had done a number of bad things.

This person wanted to know what to do
since the daughter was now in jail for
doing something bad. I don’t want to
give the exact details for privacy reason.

Anyway, the mother could bail the daughter
out of jail and was asking my opinion.
The case worker said to leave her in jail
to learn a lesson that she needs to take
her bipolar disorder seriously and take
her bipolar disorder mediations as prescribed.

I agreed with the case worker. The mother
was going to decide between bailing her
daughter out again in more ways than one.
She was speaking about the jail but she had
“bailed” her daughter out of all kinds of
other problems for a long time.

I could totally relate myself. I have bailed
my mom out of so many things. NEVER jail
however but taxes, car payments, getting
a car, getting a job, undoing what she did
to neighbors, family members, mistakes
made at all kinds of jobs, mistakes made
with her purchases, etc. etc. etc. I paid
her taxes 7 years in a row.

Anyway, I told this woman that I had enabled
my mom. The woman said she was enabled her
daughter. I agreed. She said it was so hard
to not do it. She was trying the “tough
love” approach. That’s something I speak about
in my course. She said it wasn’t working but
it worked sometimes.

I asked her some questions because I could
tell she was unsure what to do. I asked her:

Have you been helping your daughter for many
years? YES!

Have you been bailing your daughter out on
all kinds of things including financial things?
YES!

Does your daughter appreciate what you have done?
NO!

Does your daughter take her medication as prescribed
and go to a doctor regularly? NO!

Do you think what you have done with your daughter
has worked or is working? NO!

Do you know what the definition of insanity is?

She paused and I think she may have thought I
was crazy because that question doesn’t really
go with my other ones. I told her.

It’s doing the same thing over and over and
hoping for a different result.

I then asked her, do you think if you bailed
your daughter out of all her problems for the
next 10 to 20 years, would you get a different
result? Would one day she snap out of it and
start doing the right thing? She laughed
and started to understand she was off track.

I told her that’s how I started doing what
I do what my mom. I said to myself one day.

“Self, hmmm. You’ve spent over $250,000 on
mom over 7 years…how’s that working?”

I said back to myself “Hmm. Not well. She
needs more money each month.”

“Self, do I think if I keep fixing my mom’s
problems she will get better all of a sudden?”

I said back to myself, “No. I have tested my
one way of doing it, the test has failed, I
need a new plan, strategy, etc.”

NO I don’t have dissociate identity disorder
and NO I am not crazy. I know I will get emails
that say something like “You know, if you talk
to yourself, that means you have a mental illness,
your mom has a mental illness so why don’t you
start looking at yourself.”

I have to laugh because that’s going to come from
some people on my list that have bipolar disorder
and aren’t really stable. They are going to read
this and then want to get my off track so I
start thinking about whether or not I have mental
illness because I had a conversation with myself.

Okay, back to the point so I don’t look like I
have ADD.

The mistake so many people make who are supporters
is this: They enable. They keep on doing EVERYTHING
for a person with bipolar disorder for years.

It gets worse and worse because there is NO reason
for the person to get better. I asked the nice
lady I spoke to, “Do you think if you keep doing
the same thing longer, it will some how work magically?”
She said no.

I asked her this important question as well:

IS THERE ANY REASON FOR YOUR DAUGHTER TO
STAY ON HER MEDICATIONS?

I answered it for her. There’s no reason. Since this
woman handles all her problems from not taking medication,
what’s the incentive to take medication? There’s none.

With myself and my mom, I started to give incentives to
do the right thing. If my mom doesn’t keep her finances
together, she will go broke and I will not pay a dime.
There are only two things that I will always pay for
which I describe in my supporter course/system but I
don’t want to reveal here because it needs a 30 minute
conversation as to why these two things.

There’s a lot to learn about this. I teach it
extensively in my courses/systems. If you have
bipolar disorder, you can learn how to avoid
creating huge problems for the people around
you following a number of techniques.

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

I ALMOST FORGOT SOMETHING

What’s my mom think? She loves what I did.
Really. She likes to be independent and
she is now. She is glad that I broke
the dependency chains. She said to me
the other day “Who wants to be
totally dependent on someone? Not me.”

I have to run. Have a great day.

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.

Hi,

I have some good news and some bad news related to getting
help with your loved one’s bipolar disorder from me.

Okay, here’s the situation. I have been getting
tons and tons of letters in the mail, emails, phone
calls, even on my cell (I have no idea how people
get my number), faxes and boxes of material
from people needing help.

I spend a great deal of time with people on the
phone helping them. Especially those that fill
out my f.ree bipolar help certificates (for
NON medical and NON legal questions because I am
NOT a doctor, therapist, lawywer, accountant,
etc.) in my
courses/system.

With everything, I respond to of people. But now I am getting
to the point where there is so much, it’s beyond
what any one person can do.

I have to say this, for direct access to me, you
are going to have to get my courses/systems.

Why? Well, if you do, it’s easier to talk to someone
that has and has a background. This speeds things along
because all the answers are already in my material.

So if you want help right away, you can fill out a
consultation certificate that comes with one of these
courses/systems below:

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/

THERE IS A CATCH.

You MUST go through the material before filling
out the f.ree consultation certificate. Why? Is
it because I am mean and want to be a pain? NO.
It’s because that means these things will go
much faster I don’t have to reexplain what I
have already taught in the material.

Now I know I will get some hate mail saying
I am evil, mean, God is going to get me,
I am going to Hell, so on and so forth
but I have to have a life. I can’t spend
all day taking calls, reading letters and
emails or I will have no life. I do more
than 99% of people in mental health. I send
a daily email that takes more than one hour
to write a day. I have tons and of material,
a lot for free on bipolar disorder.

When I was getting started and needed help,
there was no way for me to talk to anyone
who really knew what they were talking about.

I could pay doctors and therapists but they
didn’t have practical strategies to help
my mom. So I had to invent them.

These days, with almost 100,000 people on my
list, I can’t help everyone all the time. It’s
impossible. So I am writing to let you know
this.

I think the guaranteed access system I have
is fair.

I hope you understand.

Dave

Here is the current Bipolar Disorder news.

http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews325

There’s some really interesting news stories this
week. Take a look at them. Also, write me some
feedback by visiting my blog below.

Here are some of the headlines:

Electroconvulsive Therapy Is Effective but Underused for Severe
Depression

Study of damaged gene gives insight into causes of mental illness

US bipolar cases more than anticipated

Bloomfield man receives maximum sentence in woman’s slaying

For these stories and more, please visit:

http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarnews325

My Resources For Bipolar:

Quickly And Easily Explain Bipolar To People
Go here for more information.
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/explainingbipolar

Need Money Because Of Bipolar Disorder?
Go here for more information
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolarbusiness

Dating Someone With Bipolar?
Go here for more information
http://www.BipolarCentral.com/bipolardating

Want To Marry Someone Who Has Bipolar?
Go here for more information
http://www.BipolarCentral.com/bipolarmarriage/

Need Affordable Health Insurance When Dealing With
Bipolar Disorder?
Go here for more information
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Problems With Drugs, Alcohol And Addiction?
Go here for more information
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Trying To PREVENT A Divorce From Someone With Bipolar
Disorder?
Go here for more information:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/bipolardivorce

Your Friend,
Dave