{"id":1616,"date":"2009-04-08T09:18:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2009-04-08T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:18:19","slug":"small-things-can-do-this-with-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/small-things-can-do-this-with-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Things Can Do This With Bipolar Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s it going today?<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend that has a business problem. A big one.<\/p>\n<p>They were going along in their business doing this, that, and the other thing. (It doesn&#8217;t matter about  the technical parts.)<\/p>\n<p>Basically, they had been doing something that had worked and worked really well.<\/p>\n<p>Month in and month out.<\/p>\n<p>Then all of a sudden this person changed something in his business process &#8212; Something super small.<\/p>\n<p>No big deal right?<\/p>\n<p>Well, his sales fell in half!<\/p>\n<p>He was told by the person who did it that the decrease in sales could NOT be from this small change. (Despite the fact that nothing else changed.)<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, he undid this &#8220;small change&#8221; and guess what?<\/p>\n<p>Sales went back to normal!<\/p>\n<p>Do you know the moral of the story and how this relates to bipolar disorder?<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down for the answer.<\/p>\n<p>The SMALL things can make a BIG difference.<\/p>\n<p>Even though the person thought it could not, it did!<\/p>\n<p>One time my mom moved up her bedtime one hour every day for about two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Just a small thing, right?<\/p>\n<p>But she started going into an episode.<\/p>\n<p>You would think that&#8217;s a small thing and it wouldn&#8217;t affect anything, but look what a big thing it became to my mom!<\/p>\n<p>There are many little things that I talk about in my courses\/systems that can make big differences in stability with bipolar disorder:<\/p>\n<p>NEW<br \/>\nLEARN THE SECRETS OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WITH<br \/>\nBIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarmastersystem\/\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarmastersystem\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com\">http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net\">http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t think that small things make a big difference, consider this:<\/p>\n<p>Josie, a woman on my mailing list with bipolar disorder, wrote me this email:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dave-<br \/>\nI can relate to what you&#8217;re saying<br \/>\nabout isolation.  At first I just started<br \/>\nstaying in bed for short periods of time.<br \/>\nThen they were longer periods of time.<br \/>\nThen I started pushing my husband away,<br \/>\nlike I didn&#8217;t want to be with him.  Then<br \/>\nmy family.  Then my friends.  It&#8217;s like<br \/>\nI just wanted to be alone, you know?<br \/>\nIt didn&#8217;t seem like a big deal to me at<br \/>\nthe time.  But then it got worse, and I<br \/>\ncouldn&#8217;t seem to get out of bed at all.<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t even talk on the phone any<br \/>\nmore.  I got really, really depressed.<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t do anything around the house.<br \/>\nAnd the next thing I knew, I was in an<br \/>\nepisode.  All because I didn&#8217;t think<br \/>\nisolation was any big deal. Anyway,<br \/>\nthanks for listening.  Josie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Isolation.<\/p>\n<p>A small thing.<\/p>\n<p>But it led to a big thing for Josie, and has for many others.<\/p>\n<p>You see, isolation is one of the biggest triggers to a bipolar episode, just like the lack of sleep was for my mom.<\/p>\n<p>What about supporters of loved ones with bipolar disorder?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re not off the hook just because they don&#8217;t have the disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Small things can make a big difference to them as well.<\/p>\n<p>If you stop watching for signs of a bipolar episode, even for a few days (that&#8217;s just a small thing, right?  Just a few days?  No big deal.), your loved one could go into a bipolar episode.<\/p>\n<p>And what if you stop taking care of yourself?  What if you think, well, that&#8217;s just a small thing.  My loved one&#8217;s needs are much more important than mine.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not true!  If you don&#8217;t take care of yourself, you won&#8217;t be able to take care of your loved one!<\/p>\n<p>Do you see how small things can make a big difference?<\/p>\n<p>What about you?<\/p>\n<p>How have small things made a big difference in your life?<\/p>\n<p>Please share the answer on here, because your answer may be able to help someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s it going today?<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend that has a business problem. A big one.<\/p>\n<p>They were going along in their business doing this, that, and the other thing. (It doesn&#8217;t matter about  the technical parts.)<\/p>\n<p>Basically, they had been doing something that had worked and worked really well.<\/p>\n<p>Month in and month out.<\/p>\n<p>Then all of a sudden this person changed something in his business process &#8212;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/small-things-can-do-this-with-bipolar-disorder\/\" class=\"more-link pull-right\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Small Things Can Do This With Bipolar Disorder  - Bipolar Supporter Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/small-things-can-do-this-with-bipolar-disorder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Small Things Can Do This With Bipolar Disorder  - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How&#8217;s it going today? 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