{"id":405,"date":"2008-11-27T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T12:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-03-13T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T17:10:35","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-and-learning-from-bipolar-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/happy-thanksgiving-and-learning-from-bipolar-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving and Learning from Bipolar Episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How&#8217;s it going?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate it. If you don&#8217;t know what Thanksgiving is, type it into google.com and learn about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t laugh we now have tens of thousands of international readers that might not know what the holiday is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, I have to get ready to do some cardio outside and then head over to my parents house later on after I do some work. YES, I have to work on Thanksgiving. I have a lot of great projects I am working on that you are going to like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Okay, I was talking to a woman the other day who was telling me she had just been in a bipolar episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I told her, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry to hear that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be sorry.  With every episode I have, I learn, and I prevent the same thing from happening the next time, and it gets easier to handle episodes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I thought, what a great attitude!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then I thought about the truth in what she said &#8211; About how she learned from each episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Think back to when you were a kid&#8230; You had to crawl before you could learn to walk, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And you couldn&#8217;t learn to read before you learned your ABC&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now think back to when you were a little older and got a little popular, but you had to do it by making one friend at a time, didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And in high school, you didn&#8217;t get your diploma overnight, did you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each lesson built on the one before it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each grade built on the grade before that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then later you got married (if you are).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You didn&#8217;t instantly know how to be a good husband or wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You had learned it from all the relationships you had before you got married.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You learned what to do and what not to do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now think of your life lessons&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your choices and decisions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your mistakes and failures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And how each success, each accomplishment, everything you&#8217;ve gotten, was based on all of that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;d never failed, you wouldn&#8217;t have learned how to succeed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you hadn&#8217;t made bad choices, you wouldn&#8217;t learned how to make good ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now think of what that woman said to me the other day about her episodes, and how she learned from them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my courses\/systems, when I talk about episodes, I tell you that you have to take responsibility for what happens during those episodes.<\/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 \/>\nThat&#8217;s exactly what this woman was saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She not only took responsibility, but she used the experience as an opportunity to learn and to grow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To turn failure into success.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To turn bad choices into good ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To not make the same mistakes again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;To prevent the same thing from happening the next time,&#8221; is the way she put it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And she had a positive attitude about the whole experience, that&#8217;s what I admire the most.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We can all learn a lot from the things this woman said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m not saying that going through episodes (or life) is easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But if each time you learn something from them, like she said, &#8220;it gets easier to handle episodes.&#8221;<\/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>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;\">How&#8217;s it going?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate it. If you don&#8217;t know what Thanksgiving is, type it into google.com and learn about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Don&#8217;t laugh we now have tens of thousands of international readers that might not know what the holiday is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, I have to get ready to do some cardio outside and then head over to my parents house later on after I do some work.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/happy-thanksgiving-and-learning-from-bipolar-episodes\/\" class=\"more-link pull-right\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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>Happy Thanksgiving and Learning from Bipolar Episodes - 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\/happy-thanksgiving-and-learning-from-bipolar-episodes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Thanksgiving and Learning from Bipolar Episodes - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How&#8217;s it going? 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