{"id":52,"date":"2008-06-28T08:50:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-03-19T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:59:43","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-unkeepable-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-unkeepable-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Unkeepable Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

Today I want to talk to you about<\/p>\n

UNKEEPABLE PROMISES<\/p>\n

This is a serious subject, and I’m sure many of you have come up against this.<\/p>\n

This is more than just promising your child something for Christmas and then not being able to get it for them.<\/p>\n

Hear me out \u2013<\/p>\n

This is like an alcoholic or addict promising never to do it again (just to get their parents, spouse, family, or the court system off their back), but then doing it again\u00a0 anyway, because they’re in full blown addiction.\u00a0 They made an unkeepable promise.<\/p>\n

This is like a company that promises no lay-offs, but then goes into a down period and has to lay off some of their employees anyway.\u00a0 They shouldn’t have made the promise in the first place, because business is unpredictable.\u00a0 They made an unkeepable promise.<\/p>\n

This is like the government promising no new taxes or promising to cut old taxes and then doing it anyway.\u00a0 Or promising us there won’t be a recession and then there is.\u00a0 They never should have made these promises to begin with.\u00a0 Our government is notorious for making unkeepable promises.<\/p>\n

Now here’s the point:<\/p>\n

TRUE STORY:<\/p>\n

Bill promised Michele he would never put her in the hospital again during a bipolar episode.<\/p>\n

One day, when Michele was in a bad manic episode, Bill came home to find Michele had scratched up her arms (using her fingernails) until they were so deep and long that they were bleeding.<\/p>\n

Michele was completely unaware that she had done\/was doing this. She felt no pain.\u00a0 She was doing this subconsciously.<\/p>\n

NOTE:\u00a0 This is called self- mutilization, and is one of the signs\/symptoms of a type of bipolar disorder that I go over in my courses:<\/p>\n

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Bill tried to stop Michele, but he couldn’t.\u00a0 He tried to reason with her, but he couldn’t.\u00a0 He tried to get Michele to go to the hospital, but he couldn’t.<\/p>\n

All Michele kept saying was, “You promised you would never put me in the hospital again!”\u00a0 Over and over again.<\/p>\n

Bill didn’t know what to do. He knew he had made that promise and, not being a man who breaks his promises, he just didn’t know what to do.<\/p>\n

But he also knew he couldn’t just sit there and watch his wife suffer. Maybe she didn’t feel the pain from scratching her arms until they bled, but it was painful for him to watch and do nothing.<\/p>\n

He realized he had made an unkeepable promise, and he took her to the hospital anyway.\u00a0 It was for her own good, even though she couldn’t know it at the time.\u00a0 But she had become a danger to herself.
\n———————————————<\/p>\n

The point of that story is that, as a supporter of a loved one with bipolar disorder, you may find yourself having to break a promise to your loved one as well.<\/p>\n

I know of another case where this\u00a0 happened between a supporter and his wife, where he promised his wife that he wouldn’t ever take her to the hospital again, and because he didn’t, what should have been just maybe a month-long episode turned into a six-month episode.<\/p>\n

Now, you don’t want that to happen to you.\u00a0 So the first thing is, don’t ever promise your loved one that you will never take them to the hospital. But the second thing is, if you have done that, understand that it may be
\nan unkeepable promise.\u00a0 Hopefully, if you do find yourself in this situation, your loved one will go into the hospital on a voluntary basis.\u00a0 But if not, you may have to face involuntary hospitalization.<\/p>\n

The important thing is that with bipolar disorder, you have to be really careful and watch for these signs\/symptoms of self-harm, etc. to make sure your loved one is not a harm to themselves or others, because that’s when hospitalization is necessary.<\/p>\n

David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide \u201cBipolar Disorder\u2014The REAL Silent Killer.\u201d Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong> to get FREE Information<\/strong> sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

Today I want to talk to you about<\/p>\n

UNKEEPABLE PROMISES<\/p>\n

This is a serious subject, and I’m sure many of you have come up against this.<\/p>\n

This is more than just promising your child something for Christmas and then not being able to get it for them.<\/p>\n

Hear me out \u2013<\/p>\n

This is like an alcoholic or addict promising never to do it again (just to get their parents,<\/p>\n

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":"\nBipolar Disorder and Unkeepable Promises - 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-and-unkeepable-promises\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipolar Disorder and Unkeepable Promises - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, Today I want to talk to you about UNKEEPABLE PROMISES This is a serious subject, and I’m sure many of you have come up against this. 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