{"id":518,"date":"2008-12-28T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T14:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2009-03-12T00:49:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T04:49:19","slug":"bipolar-disorder-lesson-from-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-lesson-from-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Lesson From Candy"},"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;\">Hey, over the last couple of days, I have been to so many places with holiday candy. I actually had some and I was thinking last night about Candy and bipolar disorder which I must admit is kind of odd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have heard this saying too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Bipolar disorder is like candy &#8211; if you don&#8217;t manage it right, it can make you really, really sick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It sounds almost funny, but it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can almost compare the bipolar manic episodes to candy\/too much sugar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You get really, really high, really hyper. You feel great &#8211; on top of the world! All your ideas (grandiose ideas) are great ideas &#8211; you don&#8217;t understand why they&#8217;ve never been thought of before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You have so much energy, you could go on forever &#8211; who needs to sleep, anyway?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And money IS like candy &#8211; endless supply of it, you go through it until it&#8217;s gone, with no thought of how you&#8217;re going to feel afterward (or of what the consequences are going to be).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And the fun &#8211; oh the fun!  What a grand time you&#8217;re having!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;until the inevitable crash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just like the crash you&#8217;d have after eating a lot of candy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That high does not last forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And there are always consequences to pay (sometimes some pretty harsh ones).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That feeling-great-on-top-of-the-world feeling becomes a deep depression.  So deep, in fact, that you may even become suicidal (some people have even killed themselves).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Your great ideas are only great to you &#8211; to other people they may seem a bit odd, or even crazy. After all that energy is gone, and that lack of sleep catches up to you, you may hit the bed and not emerge for days (or weeks) at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that spending spree?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The overdrawn checking account&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The credit card debt&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The loss of your car&#8230; your home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The loss of your\/your family&#8217;s possessions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bankruptcy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The financial ruin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s why in my courses\/systems, I teach you how to have systems in place to prevent against all that&#8230; because they can devastate you and your family.<\/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 \/>\nBut worst of all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is the loss of trust from your supporter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because the consequences of your behavior may extend beyond everything I already listed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You may not remember what you&#8217;ve done during a bipolar episode, but they do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You may have done or said things that truly hurt your supporter, and they are still smarting from them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They may be feeling mistrustful, hurt, angry, resentful, embarrassed (because of things you&#8217;ve done in public), isolated, lonely&#8230; among other negative feelings\/ emotions.  All because of you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You might want them to feel sorry for you, and may not understand their distance (after all, they&#8217;ve been through a lot, too).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What you need to remember is that bipolar disorder is not only your disorder.  Because of you, it&#8217;s your supporter&#8217;s disorder as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have to deal with the consequences of your behavior when you&#8217;ve had an episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nFIND 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;\">Hey, over the last couple of days, I have been to so many places with holiday candy. I actually had some and I was thinking last night about Candy and bipolar disorder which I must admit is kind of odd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have heard this saying too:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Bipolar disorder is like candy &#8211; if you don&#8217;t manage it right, it can make you really,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-lesson-from-candy\/\" 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>Bipolar Disorder Lesson From Candy - 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\/bipolar-disorder-lesson-from-candy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipolar Disorder Lesson From Candy - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How&#8217;s it going? 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