{"id":165,"date":"2008-09-13T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T10:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-03-17T15:21:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T19:21:41","slug":"bipolar-disorder-%e2%80%93-game-of-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-%e2%80%93-game-of-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder \u2013 Game of Chance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How are you doing today? I hope you&#8217;re having a good day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I didn&#8217;t yesterday. So get this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I go to log into the service that sends all these emails to everyone. It&#8217;s all changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then I go to log in to another service in our IT department and that&#8217;s all\u00a0 changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I can&#8217;t figure out what&#8217;s where and how to send an email to you. Then I find out the companies have tech. problems. It was so annoying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway it&#8217;s all fixed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am actually up super early today. It&#8217;s like 5:30am Eastern time because I went to bed at like 10pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am going to take off for the gym early today so I can get back. Plus, I am going hiking. Lots of people have been asking me about where I go. I go all over the tri state area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Actually it&#8217;s pretty cool because I met this kid hiking that sent me DETAILED information about places I can go by me. I live in a very wooded mountain type area so there are lots of places to go that are not marked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, this kid said, &#8220;I did a search on you and saw that you are really involved with bipolar disorder. Do you mind if I ask questions?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So you know what that means? He probably knows someone with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, let&#8217;s move on to today&#8217;s topic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was talking to a reporter a few weeks back, who was asking me questions about a story she was doing concerning pregnancy and bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She asked me why so many people did not prepare for a pregnancy when they had bipolar disorder.\u00a0 About why they didn&#8217;t talk to their doctors about it.\u00a0 Why they just seemed to &#8220;wing it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I told her I just didn&#8217;t understand it, either. That they just seemed to treat it like it was a game of chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like teenagers and sex.\u00a0 Some will use protection, while others won&#8217;t.\u00a0 Like some take it seriously, and some don&#8217;t.\u00a0 Again, like a game of chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A real game of chance is like rolling the dice. There is a certain percentage of whether you will win or lose.\u00a0 Most of the time you will lose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bipolar disorder is NOT a game of chance.\u00a0 It is a serious disorder.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why over 13 million people in this country have it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s why 20% of people who have it and don&#8217;t take their medication DIE from it!\u00a0 That&#8217;s 1 in 5 people!\u00a0 That&#8217;s how serious it is!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many people with bipolar disorder will KILL themselves because of the disorder!\u00a0 That&#8217;s how serious it is!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know that, because that&#8217;s not just me.\u00a0 In my courses\/systems below, I quote experts who give the statistics all about it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">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 style=\"text-align: justify;\">HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net\">http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><br \/>\nMany people, especially young people, don&#8217;t take bipolar disorder seriously, and I just don&#8217;t understand why.\u00a0 Maybe it goes back to that teenage sex thing. They treat it like a game of chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are some reasons:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They are undiagnosed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They are unmedicated (unprescribed)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They are medication non-compliant (they won&#8217;t\u00a0 take their medication<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They are in denial<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They won&#8217;t tell others they have it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They try to hide it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They think they&#8217;re too young to have it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They think they can &#8220;beat&#8221; it<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They think they can be &#8220;cured&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00b7 They think they&#8217;re &#8220;better&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why would people gamble with their lives?\u00a0 Why would they treat bipolar disorder as if it were not a serious<br \/>\ndisorder?\u00a0 A disorder that people DIE from every day?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Life is NOT a game of chance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It should be taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bipolar disorder is NOT a game of chance, either.\u00a0 It should be taken seriously, too.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t you agree?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am going to the gym now. Catch you tomorrow<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT ME<br \/>\nVisit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/testimonials\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/testimonials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide \u201cBipolar Disorder\u2014The REAL Silent Killer.\u201d  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypertracker.com\/go\/Post\/BP_Kills_BlogAd\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong> to get <strong>FREE Information<\/strong> sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How are you doing today? I hope you&#8217;re having a good day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I didn&#8217;t yesterday. So get this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I go to log into the service that sends all these emails to everyone. It&#8217;s all changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then I go to log in to another service in our IT department and that&#8217;s all\u00a0 changed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I can&#8217;t figure out what&#8217;s where and how to send an email to you.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-%e2%80%93-game-of-chance\/\" 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>Bipolar Disorder \u2013 Game of Chance? - 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=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-\u2013-game-of-chance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipolar Disorder \u2013 Game of Chance? - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How are you doing today? 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