=>PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS, FAMILY AND LOVED ONES <= Hi, How’s it going? I hope you are doing well. A much better week last week. I wanted to tell you something
interesting about how my friend Dan got
started in body building.

Don’t worry this has something to do with
bipolar disorder 🙂

So I was talking to Dan. Dan is one of the
best body builders I know. He knows a ton.

So he was telling me and these are his
words, “I was a fat dumpy dude. One day I decided
that I was sick of being fat and dumpy. So I wanted
to get into shape and be big. I found a guy who
was in really good shape and competed. He taught
me a ton. I watched what he did and did what
he did. He was in my gym so I could just become
him by watching and doing.”

After Dan told me this story, I was thinking about
bipolar disorder and how when I was trying to figure
out how to help my mom I was trying to find successful
bipolar supporters. I was trying to find successful
people with bipolar disorder. I never really could
in any meetings.

I remember there was this one woman. And I am very thankful
for what she did. Let met tell you what happen. I was
at a meeting volunteering (NOTE-I started volunteering before
I started this website).

Anyway I was trying to understand whether or not my mom should
go on disability, how you did it, etc.

Then all of a sudden at the end of a meeting I walked
by this woman and she look really sharp. She was talking
to another lady about disability and giving her the EXACT
steps of how to get it if you had bipolar disorder.

The steps were so clear. I remember asking. “Excuse me
sorry to listen in but I was wondering if I could
take notes.”

This woman was super nice and said, “yes” of course.

So she explained all about disability and how to
figure it all out. She was a tremendous teacher.

I didn’t realize the gift of having bipolar disorder.
She was the first person that I saw how a person
with bipolar disorder is super smart, super intelligent,
and when he/she is stable can take a complex problem
and break it down into very simple steps. That’s
what she did.

I remember how excited I was to talk to her. She was excited
to talk to me. I told her how I was kind of discouraged
because I only met one successful person like herself
and many people in the meetings were just rambling.

She said, “yea, that’s the way it goes.” She went on
to say that her husband who is a bipolar supporter
hates the meetings and doesn’t like to go and she
really doesn’t either. She likes being around positive
people.

She gave me her number and said call anytime.

Guess what? The number fell out of my car and blew
way. How annoying.

Nevertheless…You know I am always telling you about how
smart, creative and intelligent those who
work for me that have one or more disorders
like bipolar disorder are.

Well it was amazing. As soon as two people got
back from vacation that amount of things accomplished
increased dramatially.

Always remember that you or your loved one with
bipolar disorder can become high functioning
and do well. Really well. No matter how
you or your loved one is doing right now.

One person who works for me has I think 8 different
disorders, has been married 5 times, homeless several
times, addicted to drugs/alcohol, and was told that
there was no hope and permantent instiution was the
only solution.

It’s so odd as I write this because you would NEVER
know this had any disorder at all. Not one. And
this person gets so much done and does it so well
it’s amazing.

I like to keep on reminding you of these types
of people because many people on my list feel
discouraged. Either they or their loved one’s
aren’t doing well.

One of the major reasons that my courses/systems
below have “success” interviews is so that people
can hear both successful bipolar supporters AND
success bipolar survivors.

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

I haven’t really mentioned this in a while but
here was my goal with all the interviews.

It was to find the worst cases, the people who
had the WORST circumstances ,the people who
everyone said, “give up, there’s no hope” and
those that turned it around and now are doing great.

Why did I want these types of people? 98% of people
will never have the struggles that my success interviews
have so they will be able to learn from these individuals
who were far worse off than they were.

They can model these individuals. This means they
can listen to what they are saying and doing and
start doing it themselves.

Modeling is really critical. The challenge with
modelling when you are dealing with bipolar diosrder
is that most people do not know anyone else who
is doing really well with bipolar disorder or as a
bipolar supporter.

I have two recommendations. Try to find people who
are successful dealing with bipolar disorder in your
particular circumstance and model them. Don’t argue
and debate.

What do I mean by in your circumstance? Well if
you are a bipolar supporter, you are looking for
successful bipolar supporters like you.

If you have bipolar disorder your looking for successful
people with bipolar disorer to model like you.

Make sense? Modeling is a powerful 8 letter
word for bipolar success.

Your Friend,

Dave

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