{"id":357,"date":"2008-11-18T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T13:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2009-03-14T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T08:52:14","slug":"update-on-my-mom%e2%80%a6bipolar-relapses-are-not-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/update-on-my-mom%e2%80%a6bipolar-relapses-are-not-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Update On My Mom\u2026Bipolar Relapses are NOT Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hope you&#8217;re having a good day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 12 days ago, my mom started noticing some things that were &#8220;off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She wasn&#8217;t feeling too well, so she asked a friend to describe what she noticed about changes in her (my mom&#8217;s) recent behavior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She thought she might be going into a depressed episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, I&#8217;ve told you before that my mom has systems in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So the first thing she did was call her therapist and ask her for an emergency appointment, and she was able to see her later that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then she made a list of the symptoms her friend had observed, and she took that list with her to her therapist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her therapist said that my mom was in a &#8220;rapid cycle&#8221; of bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my courses and systems, I talk about the different types of bipolar disorder. Rapid cycling is not a type of bipolar disorder in itself, but it just means that your episodes happen more frequently than usual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com\">http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net\">http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><br \/>\nIn my mom&#8217;s case, this is her &#8220;bad time&#8221; of the year anyway, so we watch her more closely than usual.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s why she was using her system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And she did the right thing, that when she noticed that something was &#8220;off,&#8221; or didn&#8217;t feel right, she called her therapist and then went to see her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By doing that, she avoided a full-blown episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are what we call &#8220;mini-episodes,&#8221; or &#8220;relapses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But now my mom feels as if she&#8217;s failed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So is a relapse a failure?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Especially if you&#8217;ve followed your system and done everything right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Remember that with bipolar disorder, there are things you can control, and things you can&#8217;t control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can&#8217;t control the chemical imbalance in your brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But you CAN do something about it when the chemicals fire off unexpectedly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can do exactly what my mom did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She didn&#8217;t fail. She did exactly what she should have done. And that&#8217;s not failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In fact, it&#8217;s just the opposite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m proud of her for the way she handled the situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a time in the past when she didn&#8217;t have a system, and she would have gone into a full-blown episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But because of what she did this time, it shows me that she is following her system, and did the right thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can call this rapid-cycling, or we can call this a mini-episode, or we can just say that my mom just experienced a phase of bipolar depression.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the point is, she did NOT go into a bipolar depressive episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because she followed her system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your loved one should have a system in place as well. And you should be a part of it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can help them by watching for signs and symptoms of an episode. Even if they don&#8217;t notice that they&#8217;re &#8220;off,&#8221; you can, and you can point it out to them, and encourage them to seek help (early).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And as long as they follow their system, they shouldn&#8217;t be going into episodes, either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least not as often as they did before their systems were in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But you can&#8217;t predict what their bipolar disorder is going to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because there still isn&#8217;t a cure for the disorder, episodes are going to happen from time to time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They can be minimized, though, and mini-episodes, or relapses are NOT failures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Relapses should actually be expected, but if you catch them early (by watching for signs and symptoms of episodes), you can keep your loved one from going into a full-blown episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Odd. Guess what?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hey, I just checked my email and my mom sent one that said how she wasn&#8217;t sleeping so she a) scheduled with her therapist b) called her psychiatrist and scheduled an immediate appointment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My mom said that she is confident that a major gigantic episode like what happened in 2004 will not happen again because of all the systems we have in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you think?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT ME<br \/>\nVisit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/testimonials\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/testimonials<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide \u201cBipolar Disorder\u2014The REAL Silent Killer.\u201d  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypertracker.com\/go\/Post\/BP_Kills_BlogAd\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong> to get <strong>FREE Information<\/strong> sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hope you&#8217;re having a good day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 12 days ago, my mom started noticing some things that were &#8220;off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She wasn&#8217;t feeling too well, so she asked a friend to describe what she noticed about changes in her (my mom&#8217;s) recent behavior.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She thought she might be going into a depressed episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, I&#8217;ve told you before that my mom has systems in place.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/update-on-my-mom%e2%80%a6bipolar-relapses-are-not-failures\/\" 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>Update On My Mom\u2026Bipolar Relapses are NOT Failures - 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\/update-on-my-mom\u2026bipolar-relapses-are-not-failures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Update On My Mom\u2026Bipolar Relapses are NOT Failures - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, Hope you&#8217;re having a good day. 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