{"id":2006,"date":"2009-07-19T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2009-07-19T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T15:16:31","slug":"bipolar-disorder-take-the-bad-with-the-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-take-the-bad-with-the-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder? Take the Bad With the Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How are you doing?<\/p>\n

I was thinking about a place where I have found a bunch of people to work for me.<\/p>\n

Now I have found some terrible people at this place but I have found some of my very best people from this place too.<\/p>\n

For a while I started to think of the place as a bad one and hated it.<\/p>\n

Then I thought of all the good people that I’ve gotten from this place.<\/p>\n

It made me think of the expression, “You have to take the good with the<\/p>\n

bad.”<\/p>\n

In other words, what if I had condemned this place, saying that I would never go there again to get any more people to work for me, just because I got some bad people from it?<\/p>\n

What if I focused only on the bad?<\/p>\n

Then what if the very next person I would have hired from there would have been the best employee I ever would have hired?<\/p>\n

I really would have missed out on something good just because I didn’t take the bad with the good.<\/p>\n

Just because I judged something without having all the facts.<\/p>\n

Just because I was too quick to judge.<\/p>\n

And just because I had a few bad experiences, I could have decided to hate the whole thing.<\/p>\n

Many people with bipolar disorder do the same thing that I started to do.<\/p>\n

They start focusing on the bad.<\/p>\n

They don’t take the bad with the good.<\/p>\n

They condemn without getting all the facts.<\/p>\n

Or they even make decisions before they consider all the choices, or all the consequences.<\/p>\n

Like the bad side effects from their bipolar medications.<\/p>\n

Instead of thinking that ok, there are some bad side effects, but the medication is good\u2026<\/p>\n

Or calling the doctor and telling him about the bad side effects to see what can be done\u2026<\/p>\n

They just jump right to wanting to go off the medication.<\/p>\n

And in my courses\/systems, I talk about how dangerous it is for you to do that, and how important staying on medication is:<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n

Visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n

SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n

Visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n

Visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Some people judge a doctor as a bad doctor just because one time he didn’t call back in exactly 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

Or maybe he kept you waiting in the waiting room for an hour.<\/p>\n

Or maybe you don’t feel like he treated you the way you expected to be treated when he did see you, etc.<\/p>\n

You have to take it all into account before you condemn something or someone in the medical or mental health field.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, there are some bad doctors, but you can’t just jump right in there and say that your doctor is one because of one of these reasons.<\/p>\n

You have to take the bad with the good.<\/p>\n

Just like with the medications \u2013 you can’t condemn all bipolar medications just because some of them have some bad side effects.<\/p>\n

You can’t expect all medications to work perfectly every time.<\/p>\n

Medication isn’t perfect.<\/p>\n

But you have to take the bad with the good, because you have to take medication for your bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

You just have to work with your doctor.<\/p>\n

But you can’t expect your doctor to be perfect all the time.<\/p>\n

They aren’t.<\/p>\n

They have bad days just like you do, and what if that day that you felt you weren’t treated exactly the way you wanted to be treated was just a bad day for them?<\/p>\n

You have to take the bad with the good.<\/p>\n

Just like what if I had expected this source for finding people to work for me to be perfect and to give me absolutely perfect people every time?<\/p>\n

And what if I stopped using them just because they weren’t perfect?
\nHave you learned to take the bad with the good?<\/p>\n

Can you give me an example of how you had to apply this principle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How are you doing?<\/p>\n

I was thinking about a place where I have found a bunch of people to work for me.<\/p>\n

Now I have found some terrible people at this place but I have found some of my very best people from this place too.<\/p>\n

For a while I started to think of the place as a bad one and hated it.<\/p>\n

Then I thought of all the good people that I’ve gotten from this place.<\/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":[],"yoast_head":"\nBipolar Disorder? Take the Bad With the Good - 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-disorder-take-the-bad-with-the-good\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipolar Disorder? Take the Bad With the Good - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How are you doing? I was thinking about a place where I have found a bunch of people to work for me. 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