{"id":1701,"date":"2009-05-03T09:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T13:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2009-05-07T10:19:30","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T14:19:30","slug":"bipolar-lesson-from-why-i-never-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-lesson-from-why-i-never-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Lesson From Why I Never Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How’s it going?<\/p>\n

I hope you’re having a good day.<\/p>\n

I’ve got to tell you what happened
\nwith my computer.<\/p>\n

I’ll give you a hint:<\/p>\n

It was NOT good.<\/p>\n

I just spent a whole lot of time Upgrading my XP system to Vista.<\/p>\n

It was a TOTAL nightmare.<\/p>\n

HORRIBLE.<\/p>\n

Why don’t I upgrade until I absolutely positively have to?<\/p>\n

Because normally my old system is working great.<\/p>\n

When I upgrade, I have to learn a new system and there is the risk that things will go wrong.<\/p>\n

I like when things are going right.<\/p>\n

When they’re going smoothly.<\/p>\n

Like that expression, “If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”<\/p>\n

I don’t like change, really, because I get comfortable with the way things are.<\/p>\n

Still, I have to face the fact that, like with my computer, some things do have to be changed.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you just have to take a risk in order to make things better.<\/p>\n

This is like those who have a bipolar stability equation they use to manage their bipolar disorder with…<\/p>\n

Or a treatment plan they have been following and it’s working, and then they change it (upgrade it).<\/p>\n

99% of the time it’s a nightmare and doesn’t work like the old one.<\/p>\n

Now if the old one stops working you have to change to a new one (like bipolar medication).<\/p>\n

There are two ways to look at this when it comes to bipolar disorder..<\/p>\n

One way is that some things do have to change, and the other is like that saying,
\n“If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”<\/p>\n

Here’s a “no change” example”<\/p>\n

Bob is in a bipolar support group.<\/p>\n

Now, his medication is working just fine
\nfor him, and he is stable.<\/p>\n

But he hears about this new medication from someone else in the support group who says this medication works wonders for their bipolar disorder and that he should try it, too.<\/p>\n

So Bob starts thinking that he should ask his doctor to put him on this medication.<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with this picture?<\/p>\n

Well, Bob’s system (his medication) is working just fine.<\/p>\n

Why should he “upgrade” it?<\/p>\n

Why should he “fix what isn’t broke”?<\/p>\n

That’s what I’m talking about here.<\/p>\n

Now here’s an example of a “need to be changed” situation:<\/p>\n

Dolores was on the same bipolar medication for a long time, and it had been working well for her.<\/p>\n

But then she went into a depression.<\/p>\n

She didn’t worry about it for the first couple of days, thinking that even people without bipolar disorder get depressed once in awhile.<\/p>\n

But after a week, her depression was still hanging around.<\/p>\n

The problem was, Dolores couldn’t figure out why she was so depressed.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t really anything wrong that she could think of. In fact, she had a relatively happy life, and didn’t have any real problems, at least nothing that she could put her finger on.<\/p>\n

Yet she still felt depressed.<\/p>\n

She started to think that maybe her bipolar medication wasn’t working as well as it should. Maybe it needed a change.<\/p>\n

So she went to her psychiatrist and told him what was going on.<\/p>\n

Her psychiatrist “upped” her dosage a bit, and after a short period of time, Dolores’s depression went away.<\/p>\n

All she had needed was an “upgrade” to her medication, and everything was fine!<\/p>\n

In my courses\/systems, I always tell people to check with their doctor when they don’t “feel right,” and that’s exactly what Dolores did.<\/p>\n

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\nSometimes we can’t just get complacent and think that things will be okay if we just leave them alone.<\/p>\n

Sometimes we do need to “upgrade” our way of doing things, even if we don’t want to.<\/p>\n

Sometimes it can make a big difference, like it did for Dolores.<\/p>\n

Have you ever needed to make a change or “upgrade” something in your life?<\/p>\n

How did it make a difference for you?<\/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

I hope you’re having a good day.<\/p>\n

I’ve got to tell you what happened
\nwith my computer.<\/p>\n

I’ll give you a hint:<\/p>\n

It was NOT good.<\/p>\n

I just spent a whole lot of time Upgrading my XP system to Vista.<\/p>\n

It was a TOTAL nightmare.<\/p>\n

HORRIBLE.<\/p>\n

Why don’t I upgrade until I absolutely positively have to?<\/p>\n

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":[7,6,23],"yoast_head":"\nBipolar Lesson From Why I Never Upgrade - 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\/bipolar-lesson-from-why-i-never-upgrade\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipolar Lesson From Why I Never Upgrade - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How’s it going? I hope you’re having a good day. I’ve got to tell you what happened with my computer. I’ll give you a hint: It was NOT good. 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