{"id":2041,"date":"2009-07-25T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2009-07-25T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T10:48:04","slug":"bipolar-disorder-getting-back-on-the-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-getting-back-on-the-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder? Getting back on the worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How’s it going?<\/p>\n

I am going hiking today so I had to get this off early in the morning.<\/p>\n

Okay, so, have you ever heard the expression “getting back on the horse”?<\/p>\n

People use it when talking about having failed at something and then trying it again.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, if you’ve messed up, it’s hard to get back to where you were.<\/p>\n

But sometimes it’s CRUCIAL that you “get back on the horse” when it comes to things that you<\/p>\n

mess up with your bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, your medication.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to forget to take it.<\/p>\n

If you do, that’s ok. You just take the next dose when it’s time.<\/p>\n

But too many people will just stop taking it altogether, and that is a HUGE mistake!<\/p>\n

Because that is almost a SURE way to go into a bipolar episode!<\/p>\n

And also because when you’re ready to go back on your medication, it’s like starting at square one again.<\/p>\n

Bipolar medication takes time to build up in your bloodstream, so if you’ve been off it for awhile, you have to start at a low dose again and build back up to the level where you were before you stopped taking it.<\/p>\n

Some people mess up seeing their doctor, psychiatrist, and\/or therapist.<\/p>\n

They miss one appointment, then it gets easier to miss another, then another\u2026<\/p>\n

Then they stop going altogether.<\/p>\n

And that is NOT the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

If you miss an appointment, you have to “get back on the horse” and go to the next one.<\/p>\n

There are so many parts that can be messed up in a treatment plan, but I’m not going to go into all the parts of a treatment plan here, because I go into them extensively in my courses\/systems:<\/p>\n

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HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n

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But I do want to talk to you about what happens when you do start to mess up parts of your treatment plan.<\/p>\n

Let’s say you’ve started isolating again.<\/p>\n

Isolation is one of the symptoms of bipolar disorder, and one of the top triggers to a bipolar episode.<\/p>\n

But if you let this slip, and you start to isolate again, then you are in a dangerous place, and could be jeopardizing your stability.<\/p>\n

Now you have two choices:<\/p>\n

You can either close down, shut out the world, get all depressed, climb into bed, pull the covers over your head, feel sorry for yourself, cry, and go into a bipolar depressive episode\u2026<\/p>\n

OR\u2026 you can “get back on the horse” again.<\/p>\n

Another example is if you start to slip with your sleep patterns.<\/p>\n

Lack of sleep (or too much sleep) is another trigger to a bipolar episode.<\/p>\n

But you can fix it if you catch it soon enough.<\/p>\n

In other words, you can accept that even though you let a PART of your treatment plan get messed up, your WHOLE treatment plan is still working, and you can still fix it.<\/p>\n

First you identify what went wrong. Then you can fix it (“Get back on the horse.”)<\/p>\n

It doesn’t have to be anything really dramatic, but even small parts of your treatment plan, if they get messed up, can cause you to go into an episode.<\/p>\n

Even if it does cause you to go into an episode, though, you can still recover from that episode and\u2026<\/p>\n

That’s right \u2013 “get back on the horse” again.<\/p>\n

Start back doing the things you were doing before you went into that episode.<\/p>\n

What do you think of the idea of “getting back on the horse”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How’s it going?<\/p>\n

I am going hiking today so I had to get this off early in the morning.<\/p>\n

Okay, so, have you ever heard the expression “getting back on the horse”?<\/p>\n

People use it when talking about having failed at something and then trying it again.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, if you’ve messed up, it’s hard to get back to where you were.<\/p>\n

But sometimes it’s CRUCIAL that you “get back on the horse”<\/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? Getting back on the worse - 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-getting-back-on-the-worse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipolar Disorder? Getting back on the worse - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How’s it going? I am going hiking today so I had to get this off early in the morning. 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