{"id":5363,"date":"2007-12-08T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-christmas-rule-book\/"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T20:31:00","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-christmas-rule-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-christmas-rule-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder And Christmas Rule Book."},"content":{"rendered":"

==>>Help with ALL aspects of bipolar disorder<<==
Check out all my resources, programs and information
for all aspects of bipolar disorder by visiting:
http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/catalog.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

Hi,<\/p>\n

Hope you are doing well.<\/p>\n

This is funny, I was briefly
at a Christmas party yesterday.<\/p>\n

I want to talk about an important
lesson with bipolar disorder. First
I want to tell you a funny Christmas
party story.<\/p>\n

There were a bunch of people there.<\/p>\n

There was this little girl and she
said something to me like, “I can’t
believe you just started using an
ipod.” <\/p>\n

An ipod is like this thing that holds
a bunch of music on it. It’s a bigger
cd player.<\/p>\n

I was like, “Well I might not have known
how cool ipods were but I know lots of
other stuff.”<\/p>\n

She goes, “Yea, I do too.” She said I have
a question for you. I said, “oh,
yea?” So she asked what Hanna Montana
is?<\/p>\n

I heard hear of this person and wasn’t sure
what she was. So I was like, “Darn, umm well,
she is a singer.” The girl laughed at me
and said she is a children’s show on the
Disney Channel. She sounded like a game
show contestant. <\/p>\n

So then I was like, “oh yea, what’s autism?”<\/p>\n

So she told me it was an illness that a person
has problems interacting with people socially.<\/p>\n

WOW? I was amazed. I said, “how did you know
what Autism was?” She said, “Because I am smart.”<\/p>\n

I thought her response was sooooooo funny. Anyway,
decided that I shouldn’t “play quiz” with
her anymore because I would look like a fool because
she was “smart” and 11 years old.<\/p>\n

I guess she must be in like “gifted program”
or something. Her mom said, “yea, she is really
smart.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, I have an important lesson on bipolar disorder
to tell you today.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m the only one,
but have you noticed all the Christmas
decorations out this year? It\u2019s not just
the sheer numbers, although there is
that, but they seem to be in the oddest
places, too!<\/p>\n

I just know that this isn\u2019t the way it
was meant to be. I remember when it
was just a simple family occasion,
maybe a decorated tree, a family
dinner, maybe a few gifts, but
certainly not the all-out free-for-
all commercialized materialistic
Christmas-ized holiday that it is
today, don\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m only a supporter, and *I* feel
overwhelmed when I step outside
my door and am confronted by all
the lights around me, everywhere
I look! I just can\u2019t imaging how
someone with bipolar disorder
must be feeling.<\/p>\n

In my courses, I talk about handling
stress in a variety of ways:<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n

SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><\/p>\n

You would think that getting together
with family at the holidays would be
all happy and jolly \u2013 at least that\u2019s
what all the stores and commercials
on TV want us to believe \u2013 but for
some people who have bipolar disorder
and their supporters, well, it can be
very stressful.<\/p>\n

For some, just being around so many
people at the same time is very
stressful. Just the sheer amount of
family can do it for some!<\/p>\n

The volume of being around so many
people at the same time can do it for
others! Have you ever noticed that?
It seems like everyone has to talk at
the same time, while the TV is turned
up way loud to hear the football game.<\/p>\n

Oh, the obligation of it all! Don\u2019t you
sometimes wish you didn\u2019t have to go
through it? I have to confess that I do.<\/p>\n

But then I came up with a truly great
revelation. Where does it say in the
Christmas Rule Book that you have to
visit every relative, go to every family
affair, put up with all the loud noise,
be around people you really don\u2019t like,
etc., etc.?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know about you, but it certainly
doesn\u2019t say it in MY Christmas Rule
Book! So I think this year, I am only
going to go to those affairs I really
want to, those that won\u2019t stress me out,
those I\u2019ll really enjoy\u2026AND SKIP
THE REST!<\/p>\n

What about you? Do you think this
Is a revolutionary idea? Or are you
going to do the same thing?<\/p>\n

Your friend,<\/p>\n

Dave
–
P.S. Don’t forget to take a look through the
different programs I’ve put together… each one is designed
to help you with a different area of bipolar disorder whether
you have it or you are supporting someone with it.
You can see them all and get the details by visiting:
http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/catalog.asp<\/a><\/p>\n

P.P.S. Check out my F.ree blog with copies of emails
that I have sent in the past and lots of great
information for you:
http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/supporterblog\/<\/a><\/p>\n

P.P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
you can’t learn anywhere else.
http:\/\/bipolarcentral.libsyn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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