{"id":1989,"date":"2009-07-14T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2009-07-14T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:43:27","slug":"the-bipolar-process-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/the-bipolar-process-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bipolar Process Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s it going?<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re doing ok.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m going to talk about the pain of childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>This lady in the gym was telling me about childbirth that\u2019s why I thought of this daily email today.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I know, you\u2019re thinking well, what does that have to do with bipolar disorder?<\/p>\n<p>Well, bear with me, and I\u2019ll show you how it does.<\/p>\n<p>In childbirth, there is immediate pain, but then the pain goes away, and in its place is something<\/p>\n<p>very beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Ask around, and you will not find one single mother who will tell you that the pain was not<\/p>\n<p>worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m here to tell you today that recovery from bipolar disorder can be every bit as painful (you already knew that) but is also worth the pain.<\/p>\n<p>In my courses, you learn how to grow and to learn from diagnosis onward, learning how to manage your disorder:<\/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>But when talking about childbirth itself, the act of it, the pain of it, that\u2019s called the birth process.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s something I call:<\/p>\n<p>THE BIPOLAR PROCESS.<\/p>\n<p>And the Bipolar Process is compared to the birth process.<\/p>\n<p>In the Bipolar Process, you grow in your stability like going from a child into an adult.<\/p>\n<p>You go from low functioning to high functioning.<\/p>\n<p>See, learning to manage bipolar disorder is a process.<\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t happen overnight.<\/p>\n<p>And it will be painful.<\/p>\n<p>Any process that is worth doing can sometimes involve pain.<\/p>\n<p>You know I work out a lot, so in the gyms I\u2019m always hearing the saying, \u201cNo pain, no gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, in the Bipolar Process, it\u2019s the same thing. There will be pain.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s like the childbirth process.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever pain there is, will be forgotten in the end, when you are left with something beautiful \u2013<\/p>\n<p>When you become that high functioning person with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>But it is a process\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And no process happens overnight. Even the birth process takes time.<\/p>\n<p>The mother first has to go through the pregnancy, and that takes nine months.<\/p>\n<p>And for some women, it&#8217;s easy.<\/p>\n<p>But for other women, it&#8217;s not as easy.<\/p>\n<p>For those women, they get sick a lot.<\/p>\n<p>For some, in the end, they are even bed-ridden.<\/p>\n<p>Then a woman has to go through labor, and sometimes that can take a long time.<\/p>\n<p>For some women, they say their labor was easy.<\/p>\n<p>For other women, they say their labor was very, very hard.<\/p>\n<p>For some women, they say the pain was bearable.<\/p>\n<p>For other women, they say it was the worst pain they ever had to go through in their whole lives.<\/p>\n<p>But again, like I said before\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ask any one of them about the nine months\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ask any one of them about the labor\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ask any one of them about the birth and the pain\u2026<\/p>\n<p>And every one of them will tell you it was all worth it.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the birth process is all worth it in the end.<\/p>\n<p>So what I&#8217;m saying is that everything you have to go through in the Bipolar Process\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Everything you have to go through to become stable\u2026<\/p>\n<p>All the pain\u2026 the side effects of medication\u2026 the doctor visits\u2026 etc.<\/p>\n<p>Will all be worth it in the end, when you are something beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>When you are a high-functioning, happy, productive, STABLE person with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s it going?<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re doing ok.<\/p>\n<p>Today I\u2019m going to talk about the pain of childbirth.<\/p>\n<p>This lady in the gym was telling me about childbirth that\u2019s why I thought of this daily email today.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I know, you\u2019re thinking well, what does that have to do with bipolar disorder?<\/p>\n<p>Well, bear with me, and I\u2019ll show you how it does.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/the-bipolar-process-revealed\/\" 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>The Bipolar Process Revealed - 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\/the-bipolar-process-revealed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Bipolar Process Revealed - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How&#8217;s it going? 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