Hi,<\/p>\n
Did you know that two people, growing up in the same environment, can turn out completely<\/p>\n
different? Consider this case study:<\/p>\n
Carlos and Jose Gonzales grew up with a single mother who had to work two jobs to support them. Because of this, she was rarely home. She tried the best she could, however, to be a good mother. It took every penny she made to keep a roof over her sons\u2019 heads and food in their mouths. Unfortunately, this meant that they couldn\u2019t exactly live in the best neighborhood or go to the best schools. Although she tried to keep their home environment an emotionally healthy one and to give her boys all the love that she could, the fact that there was no good male role model rubbed off negatively on Carlos. He began running with a street gang and got involved with drugs at an early age. Because of this, he turned to theft to support his habit, and got arrested and put in jail. His brother Jose, however, never did those things, and ended up going to college on a scholarship, got out of his bad neighborhood, and became a successful lawyer, eventually even moving his mother out of that bad area.<\/p>\n
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This story just goes to show that it\u2019s not what you\u2019re \u201cdealt\u201d in life that counts, but what you do with it. In other words, it’s not the fact that you (or your loved one) have bipolar disorder, it’s what you do with it that counts.<\/p>\n
I even saw on a commercial the other day (maybe you\u2019ve seen it too) a girl surfing with one arm!<\/p>\n
I was so impressed! Here\u2019s this young girl who didn\u2019t even let the fact that she only has one arm stop her from surfing. So why should you or your loved one let bipolar disorder stop you from living a full, productive, healthy, successful, and happy life? My mother hasn\u2019t!<\/p>\n
There was a time when her bipolar disorder did stop her from having a good life\u2026A time when she had such a bad bipolar episode that it practically had her bedridden\u2026But after I began slowly helping her come out of that episode\u2026Helping her see that what she had been doing<\/p>\n
wasn\u2019t working for her\u2026And trying new techniques and methods and strategies to cope and deal with her bipolar disorder\u2026Helping her get a GOOD doctor to help her get better\u2026And helping her get on the right medication for her disorder\u2026To help her manage the debt that her bipolar<\/p>\n
disorder had gotten her into\u2026And to do the things she needed to do for herself to help her get better\u2026Well\u2026Her life improved to where it is today!<\/p>\n
And today she is healthy, she is productive, she is working, she is successful, she is stable, and she is happy. And there is no reason that your loved one can\u2019t be too.<\/p>\n
If the two of you work together to fight their bipolar disorder (instead of fighting each other), then you have a better chance at winning against this thing.<\/p>\n
Remember, it\u2019s what you do with it that counts! Do something positive!<\/p>\n
Well, I have to go!<\/p>\n
Your Friend,<\/p>\n
Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi,<\/p>\n
Did you know that two people, growing up in the same environment, can turn out completely<\/p>\n
different? Consider this case study:<\/p>\n
Carlos and Jose Gonzales grew up with a single mother who had to work two jobs to support them. Because of this, she was rarely home. She tried the best she could, however, to be a good mother. It took every penny she made to keep a roof over her sons\u2019 heads and food in their mouths.<\/p>\n