{"id":1935,"date":"2009-07-05T11:41:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2009-07-05T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T15:41:39","slug":"are-you-blaming-bipolar-problems-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/are-you-blaming-bipolar-problems-on-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Blaming Bipolar Problems On This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How are you today?<\/p>\n<p>You know, things are getting really bad all over.<\/p>\n<p>You know I&#8217;m not a negative person.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;m one of the most positive people I know.<\/p>\n<p>But I also have to be realistic.<\/p>\n<p>And realistically\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The economy is really bad.<\/p>\n<p>We are in such a bad recession, and some people are still trying to pretend it isn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p>Others are being so devastated by it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the majority of people \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Those who are losing their homes and cars\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And the many, many people who are losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>So many people really can blame their problems on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>But if you have problems because of bipolar disorder, can you really blame those on the economy as well?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let&#8217;s take a look at that.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, if your loved one with bipolar disorder was working at a job and lost their job because of the recession, then maybe you could blame the economy for that.<\/p>\n<p>Then your finances could suffer, and that would be related to the economy instead of the bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>However, if your loved one is suffering because they&#8217;re not taking their medication, that has nothing to do with the economy.<\/p>\n<p>That has everything to do with your loved one and their choices.<\/p>\n<p>The responsibility for good choices, especially when it comes to medications, belongs to<\/p>\n<p>your loved one.<\/p>\n<p>The responsibility isn&#8217;t even yours!<\/p>\n<p>I know you want to be a good supporter, and you definitely want your loved one to take their medication, but you can&#8217;t make them do it if they don&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard the expression, &#8220;You can lead a horse to water, but you can&#8217;t make them drink&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve heard it said, &#8220;You can lead a horse to water, but you can&#8217;t make them drink\u2026but you CAN make things salty so that they&#8217;ll WANT to drink!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The way you can apply that to your situation is that your &#8220;salt&#8221; could be encouraging your loved one to take their medication, or offer suggestions, or even show them the statistics on what happens when people with bipolar disorder don&#8217;t take their medication, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Then, hopefully, they will WANT to take their medication.<\/p>\n<p>In my courses\/systems, I offer suggestions on how you can get your loved one to take their medication, because so many supporters have told me that this is such a problem for them.<\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n<p>Visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n<p>Visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com\">http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n<p>Visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net\">http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at another bipolar problem that gets blamed on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Say that your loved one gets depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, some people are getting depressed because of the economy, I&#8217;ll grant you that.<\/p>\n<p>And there are some things about today&#8217;s economy that are enough to be depressed over!<\/p>\n<p>But because your loved one has bipolar disorder, they are prone to mood swings.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just part of their illness.<\/p>\n<p>And one of those mood swings is depression.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the recession is just a trigger to their depression.<\/p>\n<p>But the economy (the recession) cannot be blamed for their bipolar disorder or, more pecifically, their bipolar depression.<\/p>\n<p>Their depression is part of their disorder, not part of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>See the difference?<\/p>\n<p>Now, some people are angry about the state of our economy.<\/p>\n<p>And people have a right to be.  I get angry about it sometimes, too.<\/p>\n<p>I wish things were better, as I&#8217;m sure you do, too.<\/p>\n<p>But you don&#8217;t have to have bipolar disorder to be angry.<\/p>\n<p>There are many people without the disorder who get angry about the economy.<\/p>\n<p>If your loved one is angry about the economy, you can&#8217;t necessarily jump to conclusions and say<\/p>\n<p>that is part of their bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>However, anger can be a symptom of bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>So if other symptoms of the disorder are present, your loved one may be in a bipolar episode,<\/p>\n<p>and may need help.<\/p>\n<p>But if it is anger by itself and part of their bipolar<\/p>\n<p>disorder, you just can&#8217;t blame that on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Are you blaming your loved one&#8217;s disorder on the economy?<\/p>\n<p>Are you blaming your problems on the economy?<\/p>\n<p>What can you do to improve your situation in spite of the economy?<\/p>\n<p>What have you done to improve it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How are you today?<\/p>\n<p>You know, things are getting really bad all over.<\/p>\n<p>You know I&#8217;m not a negative person.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, I&#8217;m one of the most positive people I know.<\/p>\n<p>But I also have to be realistic.<\/p>\n<p>And realistically\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The economy is really bad.<\/p>\n<p>We are in such a bad recession, and some people are still trying to pretend it isn&#8217;t there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/are-you-blaming-bipolar-problems-on-this\/\" 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>Are You Blaming Bipolar Problems On This? - 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\/are-you-blaming-bipolar-problems-on-this\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are You Blaming Bipolar Problems On This? - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How are you today? 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