{"id":495,"date":"2008-12-22T08:37:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T12:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-03-12T01:40:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T05:40:19","slug":"greatest-christmas-gift-for-your-loved-one-with-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/greatest-christmas-gift-for-your-loved-one-with-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Christmas Gift for Your Loved One with Bipolar Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I hope you&#8217;re having a great holiday season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you celebrate Christmas all done shopping?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shockingly, I haven&#8217;t even started. I have been working so hard on so many things, I haven&#8217;t had time. I am going tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nothing like waiting until the last second, huh : )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I want to ask you a question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you think is the greatest Christmas gift you could get for your loved one with bipolar disorder this year?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take a guess, then scroll down for the answer.<br \/>\nScroll down &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keep scrolling&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No cheating!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Think you know what it is?<br \/>\nKeep scrolling to find out&#8230;<br \/>\nOk, I&#8217;ll give you a hint.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The greatest Christmas gift you could get for your loved one this year is not something you can buy in a store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Think you know now?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then scroll down one more time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ok, I&#8217;ll tell you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The greatest Christmas gift you could get for your loved one this year is the gift of being a good supporter to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s the gift of your love and understanding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See?  That&#8217;s something that, as the commercial says, is &#8220;priceless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only you can do that for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that means being a good supporter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How can you do that?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re a good supporter, you help your loved one manage their disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You don&#8217;t let them skip their medication just because they&#8217;re &#8220;sick of taking it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You don&#8217;t let them stop seeing their doctor, psychiatrist, and\/or therapist just because they &#8220;don&#8217;t feel like going.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You don&#8217;t enable them when they can do those things perfect fine all by themselves. In other words, you are not their caretaker, mother, or babysitter, and you&#8217;re not afraid to tell them so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You set boundaries, and you&#8217;re not afraid to stick to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You make them pay consequences to their actions from what they do when they&#8217;re in a bipolar episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And even though all these things sound so harsh and like negative things, they are all very important.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I go over all these things in my courses\/systems, because they are all things that make up a good supporter.<\/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 \/>\nYou do all these things because you ARE a good supporter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You do all these things because you know they are important to your loved one&#8217;s stability.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You do all these things because you want to help your loved one manage their bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You do all these things because you LOVE your loved one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because you UNDERSTAND them. And that is your gift to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The gift of love and understanding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A gift that no money could buy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A gift that no one else could give them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So remember that this Christmas.<\/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;\">I hope you&#8217;re having a great holiday season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you celebrate Christmas all done shopping?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shockingly, I haven&#8217;t even started. I have been working so hard on so many things, I haven&#8217;t had time. I am going tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nothing like waiting until the last second, huh : )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I want to ask you a question:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you think is the greatest Christmas gift you could get for your loved one with bipolar disorder this year?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/greatest-christmas-gift-for-your-loved-one-with-bipolar-disorder\/\" 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>Greatest Christmas Gift for Your Loved One with Bipolar Disorder - 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\/greatest-christmas-gift-for-your-loved-one-with-bipolar-disorder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Greatest Christmas Gift for Your Loved One with Bipolar Disorder - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I hope you&#8217;re having a great holiday season. 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