{"id":5163,"date":"2008-05-26T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/happy-mmd-realize-your-power-over-bipolar\/"},"modified":"2008-05-26T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T10:25:00","slug":"happy-mmd-realize-your-power-over-bipolar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/happy-mmd-realize-your-power-over-bipolar\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy MMD Realize Your Power Over Bipolar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>=>PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS, FAMILY AND LOVED ONES <=\n\nHi,\n\nHappy Memorial Day if you celebrate it.\n\nFor our international readers, here is<br \/>a quick description of what this day<br \/>is:<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day is a United States Federal <br \/>holiday observed on the last Monday of May <br \/>(in 2008 on May 26). Formerly known as <br \/>Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and <br \/>women who perished while in military service to <br \/>their country. First enacted to honor Union soldiers <br \/>of the American Civil War, after World War I, <br \/>Memorial Day was expanded to include casualties <br \/>of any war or military <\/p>\n<p>Since today is a day in the US that focuses<br \/>on the military, I was thinking about<br \/>all the military people I know. <\/p>\n<p>They all believe one thing&#8211;they have<br \/>power.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that you have POWER?<\/p>\n<p>You DO! <\/p>\n<p>You have power over your own<br \/>thoughts, feelings, and actions!<\/p>\n<p>There is a relationship between your <br \/>thinking, the way you feel, and the<br \/>actions you take on the way you feel, <br \/>and that&#8217;s where your power lies.  You<br \/>have power over your own thoughts<br \/>so you have power over the way you <br \/>feel and your actions\/choices.<\/p>\n<p>We are all constantly thinking.  And<br \/>it&#8217;s worse for someone with bipolar <br \/>disorder, because sometimes their <br \/>thoughts don&#8217;t stop when they go to <br \/>bed \u2013 they aren&#8217;t able to turn off their <br \/>brain, and their thoughts just keep on <br \/>going.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking is subconscious.  It&#8217;s like <br \/>breathing.  Unless you&#8217;re aware of it, <br \/>you don&#8217;t know that you&#8217;re doing it.  <br \/>Because you&#8217;re always doing it, it&#8217;s <br \/>easy to forget.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike breathing, though, with a<br \/>person with bipolar disorder, forgetting<br \/>that you&#8217;re thinking can cause serious <br \/>consequences, because not all thinking <br \/>is good thinking.  Your thoughts can <br \/>become distorted and cause all kinds <br \/>of bad things to happen.<\/p>\n<p>There are even some types of bipolar <br \/>disorder where thinking becomes so <br \/>distorted that it leads to hallucinations <br \/>and delusions.<\/p>\n<p>Forgetting that you&#8217;re thinking can <br \/>cause some serious problems in your <br \/>life as a supporter, too, such as <br \/>unhappiness, inner conflicts, anger, <br \/>and stress.<\/p>\n<p>In my courses\/systems, I teach about<br \/>having control over your thoughts,<br \/>which helps you to have control over<br \/>your thinking, which in turn helps you<br \/>have control over your actions:<\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>Visit:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>Visit:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com\">http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>Visit:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net\">http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts are directly related <br \/>to your feelings, and your feelings <br \/>are directly related to your actions.  <br \/>In other words, you can&#8217;t feel angry <br \/>before first having an angry thought.  <br \/>And you can&#8217;t react in anger without <br \/>first feeling angry.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, in order to experience <br \/>a feeling, you must first have a <br \/>thought that produces that feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Unhappiness doesn\u2019t and can&#8217;t exist<br \/>on its own.  Unhappiness is the <br \/>feeling that accompanies negative <br \/>thinking about your life.  Without <br \/>that thinking, the unhappiness <br \/>(or stress, anger, etc.) can&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>So you have to change your thoughts, <br \/>because you DO have the power <br \/>to change them!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As you are, so your thinking is&#8221; <br \/>is the old adage.  Knowing you <br \/>have the power to change your <br \/>thoughts, you also have the power <br \/>to change your thinking and, so, <br \/>your actions.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing to hold your <br \/>negative feeling in place other <br \/>than your own thinking.  The <br \/>next time you&#8217;re feeling upset, <br \/>take the time to notice your <br \/>thinking \u2013 I bet it&#8217;ll be negative.  <\/p>\n<p>Then remind yourself that it&#8217;s <br \/>your thinking that&#8217;s negative, and <br \/>NOT your life!  You may not be <br \/>able to change your life (your <br \/>loved one will still have bipolar <br \/>disorder), but you CAN change <br \/>your thoughts about your life!<\/p>\n<p>You can change your negative <br \/>thoughts into positive ones.  <br \/>This is something you DO have <br \/>power over.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t change your loved one&#8217;s <br \/>thoughts from negative to positive.  <br \/>This is something you do NOT <br \/>have power over.<\/p>\n<p>So stick to something you CAN <br \/>control  \u2013 your own thoughts, <br \/>feelings, and  actions.  Use your <br \/>power to change  yourself.  And <br \/>maybe, by a positive  example, <br \/>your loved one will begin  to <br \/>change as well.<\/p>\n<p>Your Friend,<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n<p>===>> Great Resources For You <===\n\nGet Your Own Subscription To This Newsletter<br \/>Want your own copy of these daily bipolar<br \/>emails sent to you for F.ree? If so, visit:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/register3\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/register3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get More Help On Bipolar Disorder<br \/>Don&#8217;t forget to take a look through the<br \/>different programs I&#8217;ve put together&#8230; each<br \/>one is designed to help you with a different<br \/>area of bipolar disorder whether you have it or<br \/>you are supporting someone with it.<br \/>You can see them all and get the details by visiting:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/catalog.asp\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/catalog.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>View Past Daily Bipolar Emails For F.REE<br \/>Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails<br \/>that I have sent in the past and lots of great<br \/>information for you:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/supporterblog\/\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/supporterblog\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get Audio Information On Bipolar Disorder For F.REE<br \/>Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give<br \/>mini seminars designed to teach you information<br \/>you can&#8217;t learn anywhere else.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bipolarcentral.libsyn.com\">http:\/\/bipolarcentral.libsyn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>=PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS, FAMILY AND LOVED ONES Great Resources For You <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/happy-mmd-realize-your-power-over-bipolar\/\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy MMD Realize Your Power Over Bipolar - 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