{"id":5370,"date":"2007-12-03T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/ever-think-like-this-with-bipolar-disorder\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T13:14:00","slug":"ever-think-like-this-with-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/ever-think-like-this-with-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever think like this with bipolar disorder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==>>Help with ALL aspects of bipolar disorder<<==<br \/>Check out all my resources, programs and information<br \/>for all aspects of bipolar disorder by visiting:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/catalog.asp\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/catalog.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How are you? <\/p>\n<p>I hope you are doing well.<\/p>\n<p>I have a very important bipolar lesson<br \/>to tell you about today.<\/p>\n<p>It all started yesterday. Let me tell<br \/>you the story.<\/p>\n<p>I have so many friends that are overweight.<br \/>It&#8217;s a gigantic problem in the USA. I actually<br \/>think it&#8217;s way bigger than mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. Look around. There are so<br \/>many people overweight it&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have this friend that I was<br \/>talking to yesterday. This person gained<br \/>a ton of weight. A ton. Like 80<br \/>pounds. It&#8217;s amazing. Very strange.<br \/>This is NOT because of a medical condition<br \/>in case you are wondering.<\/p>\n<p>She was complaining to me telling<br \/>me how she was really, really annoyed<br \/>that she started her weight loss program<br \/>and hadn&#8217;t lost any weight.<\/p>\n<p>She asked me for advice.<\/p>\n<p>I actually have a system for losing<br \/>weight. I lost over 60 pounds and<br \/>have done so for 9 years. I haven&#8217;t<br \/>gained it back.<\/p>\n<p>Very few people can do this. Am I special?<br \/>NO. I had a system. I invented it. I did<br \/>the same thing that I did when my mom <br \/>was in a bipolar episode. I went around and did a ton<br \/>of research to figure out how to lose<br \/>weight and keep it off.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this isn&#8217;t about weight loss,<br \/>it&#8217;s about bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>I asked her when she started the weight<br \/>loss program. She said, &#8220;two weeks ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I then asked questions like:<\/p>\n<p>How much did you weigh 10 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>How much did you weigh 5 years ago?<\/p>\n<p>How much did you weigh 1 year ago?<\/p>\n<p>What do you eat?<\/p>\n<p>Why do you think you gained so much weigh?<\/p>\n<p>How much exercise did you do in the last year on<br \/>a weekly basis?<\/p>\n<p>How much water do you drink?<\/p>\n<p>What kind of nutritional supplements do you take?<\/p>\n<p>And a bunch of other questions like this.<\/p>\n<p>Then after she answered I said,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you swear you told the whole truth<br \/>nothing but the truth so help you God?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She laughed. I said, &#8220;well did you?&#8221; She <br \/>put her hand up and said &#8220;YES.&#8221;  I say<br \/>this because, you know people lie with<br \/>answers \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway it was so obvious to me what the<br \/>problem was and it totally relates to<br \/>bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal. She actually started her <br \/>new weight loss program 10 days ago not<br \/>two weeks. She lost 3 pounds. It took<br \/>her 5 years to gain 80 pounds. In the<br \/>last year, she eat terribly, took no<br \/>supplements, didn&#8217;t exercise and basically<br \/>did everything wrong. She had really bad<br \/>habits.<\/p>\n<p>She also believed that she should lose<br \/>the weight in a few months. She said, &#8220;two<br \/>would be good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BIPOLAR LESSON COMING UP<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that I told her<br \/>is that success with losing weight start<br \/>with your mindset and understanding<br \/>one concept.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t put it on in a few days and<br \/>you will NOT and I repeat will NOT take<br \/>it off in a few days or few months.<\/p>\n<p>Lose 80 pounds in two months when it took<br \/>you five years to put it on? How does that<br \/>compute?<\/p>\n<p>She lost 3 pounds in 10 days and was &#8220;disappointed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hear the same thing will bipolar disorder.<br \/>A person have a disaster of a life. Lost<br \/>friends. No job. Tons of de.bt, etc.<br \/>He\/she has been self medicating. Hasn&#8217;t seen<br \/>a doctor regularly. Hasn&#8217;t seen a therapist<br \/>at all. Has been doing this for 5 to 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Finally older age hits. He\/she turns like 40<br \/>and is disgusted. Wants to turn things around.<\/p>\n<p>He\/she comes to me: &#8220;Hey I want to go<br \/>to the doctor now and fix all this stuff.<br \/>I swear I will follow what the doctor says.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The person gets on medication in two weeks,<br \/>they talk to me all mad. The medications make them<br \/>feel bad. They have bill collectors. Their family<br \/>won&#8217;t return their calls. They can&#8217;t find a<br \/>good job. It&#8217;s not fair they tell me. <\/p>\n<p>There mad as heck for me telling them<br \/>he\/she can do well.<\/p>\n<p>I explain to the person. It took years to<br \/>create a disaster of a life and it&#8217;s going to<br \/>take time, probably not years, but a fair amount of<br \/>time to fix it all. I tell the person to hang in<br \/>there. <\/p>\n<p>I coach them.<\/p>\n<p>This is a true story. Actually the other day.<br \/>And it&#8217;s happen to me over and over and over<br \/>again.<\/p>\n<p>Some people get it. Some don&#8217;t and stop<br \/>trying out of frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at my mom, I can say by January<br \/>she would have effectively erased 95% of<br \/>the problems she created in her life from<br \/>bipolar disorder in about 3 years. <\/p>\n<p>You might be thinking &#8220;OH MY! That&#8217;s a long<br \/>time.&#8221; Well, here&#8217;s the deal. She became somewhat<br \/>stable in 3 months, totally stable in like 9 <br \/>months. Was working again in 12 months. She<br \/>is going to make her last payment for her d.ebt<br \/>in January and that would be about 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>BUT think about it, she has been doing the wrong<br \/>stuff for like 20 years. So it took her 3 years to<br \/>fix 20+ years of bipolar problems. Kind of logical right?<\/p>\n<p>What wouldn&#8217;t be logical is it taking 2 weeks<br \/>to fix 20 years of problems, right?<\/p>\n<p>You can short cut things for sure by getting<br \/>resources. Learning from others. Getting things<br \/>like my courses\/systems below:<\/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>I am not giving you a sales pitch but it&#8217;s obviously<br \/>true and logical. If you get information from someone<br \/>who has been there and done that so to speak, you<br \/>will short cut your learning curve. It&#8217;s just<br \/>common sense.<\/p>\n<p>BUT no matter what, even if you get my material<br \/>and have a person one on one mentor, it&#8217;s going to<br \/>take time to turn things around. Will it take 5 to 20 <br \/>years? If you are a good student, and can follow along,<br \/>no.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is, don&#8217;t have unrealistic expectations.<br \/>We are actually heading into weight loss &#8220;season&#8221; so<br \/>to speak and that&#8217;s when everyone starts thinking about<br \/>diets, losing weight and being thin for the new year.<br \/>This why I brought this up.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have to take off. Catch you tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Have a great day.<\/p>\n<p>Your Friend,<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Don&#8217;t forget to take a look through the <br \/>different programs I&#8217;ve put together&#8230; each one is designed <br \/>to help you with a different area of bipolar disorder whether<br \/>you have it or 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>P.P.S. 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>P.P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. 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