{"id":1612,"date":"2009-04-07T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T13:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:00:43","slug":"bipolar-supporter-imagine-what-it-would-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-supporter-imagine-what-it-would-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Supporter? Imagine What It Would Be Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How’s it going?<\/p>\n

This guy at support group was talking to me the other day, and the conversation went something like this:<\/p>\n

HIM: I’m so tired of dealing with my wife.<\/p>\n

ME: Why?<\/p>\n

HIM: Well, she never does anything.<\/p>\n

ME: What do you mean?<\/p>\n

HIM: She never gets out of bed.<\/p>\n

ME: Do you think maybe she’s depressed?<\/p>\n

HIM: What does she have to be depressed about? Now me, I have a lot to be depressed about!<\/p>\n

ME: Well, maybe if you talked to her…<\/p>\n

HIM: (cutting me off) Why should I talk to her?<\/p>\n

ME: Communication is very important if you’re going to be a good supporter.<\/p>\n

HIM: Well, I come to these meetings, don’t I? That shows support.<\/p>\n

Well, needless to say, I tried to tell him about what being a good supporter means, like I talk about in my courses\/systems:
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\nBut he didn’t seem to want to listen to what his side of things should be as a supporter to a wife with bipolar disorder. He just wanted to complain about her.<\/p>\n

So this really made me think.<\/p>\n

And I want you to do something today:<\/p>\n

I want you to use your imagination.<\/p>\n

Remember the old saying about how you can never judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes?<\/p>\n

Well, today I want you to walk a mile in your loved one’s shoes.<\/p>\n

I just want you to imagine it.<\/p>\n

Imagine you’ve been told you have a disorder – a disease, if you will.<\/p>\n

Only there’s no cure for this disease.<\/p>\n

And it’s in your brain, not your body.<\/p>\n

So it’s a hidden disorder.<\/p>\n

And you’ll have to take medication for it. Every day. For the rest of your life.<\/p>\n

Then you find out that there are side effects to the medication, and some of them aren’t very fun. In fact, some of them you don’t like at all, but you have to put up with them, because the medication helps you to get better.<\/p>\n

Now imagine this…<\/p>\n

You’re life is completely different than it once was.<\/p>\n

You have bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

You can’t work, and you’re probably on disability now, so you have less money than you used to have. Your income is substantially lower. You feel so much less productive.<\/p>\n

Your mood swings are horrible.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you feel so sad, so helpless and hopeless…<\/p>\n

And other times you feel as if you could conquer the world.<\/p>\n

The only problem is…<\/p>\n

You never know which mood you’re going to be in, and when the moods are going to change.<\/p>\n

Imagine living with that kind of fear, that kind of doubt.<\/p>\n

Now you have a doctor, a psychiatrist, and a therapist that you didn’t have before. And you have to see each of them on a regular basis. You probably hardly ever even went to the doctor before this! I mean, only when you were sick, or for your yearly flu shot.<\/p>\n

Now it feels like you’re always going to some kind of appointment.<\/p>\n

Ah, but you have your supporter.<\/p>\n

Bless your supporter, who understands what you go through.<\/p>\n

Or do they?<\/p>\n

Imagine what it would be like to be your loved one…<\/p>\n

Can you imagine now what your loved has gone through with their bipolar disorder?<\/p>\n

Can you imagine now what they go through every day?<\/p>\n

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide \u201cBipolar Disorder\u2014The REAL Silent Killer.\u201d Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong> to get FREE Information<\/strong> sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How’s it going?<\/p>\n

This guy at support group was talking to me the other day, and the conversation went something like this:<\/p>\n

HIM: I’m so tired of dealing with my wife.<\/p>\n

ME: Why?<\/p>\n

HIM: Well, she never does anything.<\/p>\n

ME: What do you mean?<\/p>\n

HIM: She never gets out of bed.<\/p>\n

ME: Do you think maybe she’s depressed?<\/p>\n

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