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Hi,

How’s it going? I got trapped in ez pass
yesterday while driving and I was super angry!

It was this totally ridiculous experience of
trying to drive through the ezpass toll booth.

But the good news is, there’s an important
bipolar disorer lesson for you to learn from my
ezpass driving nightmare.

Here’s what they say ezpass is on their website:

E-ZPass is a remarkable toll collection technology
that makes traveling more convenient, helps you save
money through discount plans offered by many toll
facilities, and helps reduce traffic congestion
for everyone.

Conventional toll collection methods require you to
deposit coins, tickets, and tokens at toll plazas.
This challenges highway capacity because the number
of vehicles that can be processed at toll plazas is limited.

With E-ZPass’ electronic toll collection (ETC) technology,
account information on an electronic tag installed in
your car is read by a receiving antenna at the toll
plaza. The toll is electronically deducted from your
prepaid toll account. Not only does E-ZPass make
toll collection more convenient for you, it helps
achieve a number of benefits for everyone.”

So I as coming up on a toll yesterday and I saw
the ezpass. I wasn’t sure if I should just fly right
through or slow down. There was one of those arm
things that is down and has to raise up so I slowed
down. It worked fine for the person in front of me.

So I was kind of nervous and thinking, “I hope I
put my ezpass thing on right?” Then I was thinking,
“I wonder if my ezpass thing fell off?” “Then I said
maybe I should just pay?”

I had all these negative thoughts since it was
my first time.

IMPORTANT BIPOLAR LESSON COMING UP

So I come up and there’s people behind me. I stop
and guess what? The arm thing doesn’t raise.

So then I am like sitting there and kind of stuck
in ezpass limbo.

People behind me are super mad. I was like, “what the
heck it’s not my fault that this system isn’t EASY?”

So then I panicked. I didn’t know if I would have to
get out of my car or what. I didn’t even see anyone
who worked at the toll booth. And worse yet, people
were stacking up behind me probably thinking, “What
a moron, he doesn’t have ezpass and he is trying
to get through and he doesn’t have it.” People wanted
to hang me. I looked in my mirror and saw a sea
of angry ezpass users.

So finally after some time of beeping, an ezpass person
came out and looked at me and then the arm raised.

Who knows what the heck happen. I was probably get
like a fine in the mail or something.

Anyway, I was mad. I felt dumb like hey
100 million other people can go through ezpass
EASILY.

Then I thought maybe I got sold a bad ezpass
thing that or whatever it’s called that goes
on your car.

I was soooooooooooooooo mad. I wasn’t sure who
to be mad at however.

So I got to my friends and I was mad. My friend was
all excited that I came over to help move a bunch of
stuff around in the house.

After like 20 minutes my friend says, “what’s wrong,
you seem so angry.” So then I said, “I am!!!!!” I told
them the ezpass story and they were like, “well it’s
not the end of the world.”

So then for the next hour I was still mad. But
then, it hit me.

When You Have Trouble In One Area, You Should Spill
It Over To Other Areas.

Then I was thinking about bipolar supporters who
are angry about their loved one’s bipolar disorder
and wind up taking that angry out on anyone and
everyone around them.

Is this you?

I know this has happen to me back in the day. My mom
would scream and yell at me. I had no idea what to
do to help her. I had all kinds of problems. I wasn’t
getting any sleep.

I then would walk into let’s say a store. The person
would say the slightest thing to me and I would take
it out on them.

I did the same with my friends. Slowly, nobody wanted
to talk to me because I was so angry and taking it
out on everyone.

This past Friday I was on the phone with some bipolar
supporters that were super hostile towards me. They
yelled at me. One called me stupid. There was like
5 in a day. It was tough to deal with.

I was so annoyed at one person that I said, “Sir,
please don’t take your situation out on me, I didn’t
do anything to you.”

He had ordered my bipolar supporter master course,
and his wife threw it away. He was mad at me
for well I have no idea. I said “sir I am not sure
what to tell you, I don’t have control over your
wife.” Then he screamed at me, saying I wasn’t
helpful and it was my fault and then he hung up
on me.

I was thinking that this guy is transferring his
anger at bipolar disorder to me and I wonder who
else he is doing this with.

In my courses/systems:

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

One concept that is covered for both the people
with bipolar disorder and those who are bipolar
supporters is how to handle anger from the
disorder.

It’s really important that you do. Because if
you don’t, you can seriously find yourself alone.

There are many bipolar supporters that I know
that nobody wants to be around because they are so
angry all the time. These same people also wind up
getting fired at work, having virtually no friends,
no fun and can’t really have any kind of life.

Back to my situation yesterday, after I realized what
I was doing, I stopped being angry and told my friend
sorry. I then realized that if I did get a fine from
ezpass it’s like $25 and I will fight it tooth and nail
because I paid for ezpass even if the stupid ezpass
thing doesn’t work right.

The big lesson here is don’t let your anger about
bipolar disorder spill over to all areas of your life.

Hey I have to run. See you tomorrow.

Your Friend,

Dave

P.S. Don’t forget to take a look through the
different programs I’ve put together… each one is designed
to help you with a different area of bipolar disorder whether
you have it or you are supporting someone with it.
You can see them all and get the details by visiting:
http://www.bipolarcentral.com/catalog.asp

P.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/

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