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Hi,<\/p>\n
What’s going on?<\/p>\n
I hope that you are doing well. <\/p>\n
Hey, I have something really interesting
today…<\/p>\n
I saw this post on my blog that said:<\/p>\n
“Thanks, Dave. I recently spoke with my
daughters dr and therapist. Her dr cut
me off and didn’t want to hear any family
history while her therapist listened to me
and invited me to call again and possibly
have a conference with my daughter <\/p>\n
(we are 12 hrs away and speak rarely…
she thinks she had a terrible childhood
which is not true.) Anyway I am concerned
because the therapist said that she didn’t
know of bipolar causing false memories and
this is what I think my daughter has. Anyway
the things she is saying to me and her father
are totally false. Is there some way I can
convince the therapist that this is true?”<\/p>\n
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This is a SERIOUS issue. I have found
that with bipolar disorder, if a person is
not stable and not doing well, he\/she can
wind up distorting the truth and making up
things.<\/p>\n
I have seen it with my mom. When my mom goes
into an episode, she will wind up believing
that stuff happened to her that didn’t,
that she had a far worse childhood than
she did, my dad did this or that.<\/p>\n
Some people say this is lying but I think
of it as a distortion of the truth or
reality. Why? Well when a person is not
stable, he\/she can actually believe things
that are not true so it’s not really lying
if you think it’s true.<\/p>\n
Let me explain better. Let’s say that you
believed that your neighbor stole your
lawn mower. You felt like you had ample
proof of this. You saw a lawn mower
in your neighbors garage that looked
just like yours.<\/p>\n
So then you told your friends that your neighbor
stole your lawn mower. Now let’s say that
your lawn mower was found a week later
and your husband took it to be serviced
and forgot to tell you.<\/p>\n
So would you be a liar? NO. You would
actually be miss perceiving what is going on.<\/p>\n
It’s the same thing with people in episodes
that have bipolar disorder. If a person
is in an episode, he\/she can say or do
anything. Remember it’s a mood disorder.<\/p>\n
We’ve talked about time and time again it’s
a mood disorder and you can’t take things
personally, people can do stuff they would
never ever do normally and that they can
ultimate make up things or distort the
truth. <\/p>\n
Now as for the therapist, if this therapist
doesn’t know this can happen with a person
with bipolar disorder that is not stable,
he\/she probably has no clue about bipolar
disorder.<\/p>\n
On a side note, I find that many therapists
have no clue about much of anything. Don’t
get my wrong, I totally believe that therapy
is really, really important in the bipolar
stability equation. My mom has a good therapist
but she had two really bad ones before this
good one.<\/p>\n
I find that people become therapists and instead
of specializing they try to do everything. I think
it’s because they are struggling financially and
instead of turning potential clients away and referring
them to more qualified therapists, they wind up
taking on cases they have no clue about. <\/p>\n
Then they quickly try to learn about the disorder
or problem the person may be having. <\/p>\n
I once asked my mom’s therapist if she could
handle someone with an eating disorder. She
said that is not a specialty of hers and she
knows of an excellent therapist who handles
that. <\/p>\n
In my courses\/systems I have a doctor finding
system which also is for finding therapists.<\/p>\n
People ask all the time how I found a great doctor
and therapist for my mom and had them contact
and call me. It’s all in my courses\/systems
below:<\/p>\n
SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/p>\n
SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/p>\n
HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/p>\n
When I first came out with my doctor\/therapist
finding system, it was more than 20 pages long,
and then it became more than 30 pages long and
had audio. People thought I was out of my mind.<\/p>\n
People would call and say, “hey, know any
good bipolar doctors and therapists in (insert
area)?”<\/p>\n
I would say no. They would kind of be annoyed with
me. I would say, I don’t believe in just getting
random referrals. I like to get doctors\/therapists
through a filtering system that I use.<\/p>\n
Many people thought I was weird, some asked if I had
bipolar disorder because I didn’t give them the answer
they wanted to hear. I remember one said, “I thought
you were so smart, how the heck don’t you know any
good doctors in Great Bear Kansas?” It’s kind of funny
because I don’t even know where Great Bear Kansas is.<\/p>\n
The reason why I have such a serious system for
finding doctors and therapists for bipolar disorder
is because it’s super important. <\/p>\n
The woman who posted on my blog might have serious
problems with this therapist. Why? The therapist doesn’t
appear to know bipolar well. As a result, unfortunately,
the woman’s daughter will probably fun circles around
the therapist. <\/p>\n
At some point the therapist may realize he\/she needs
more information on bipolar disorder. The therapist
will probably get some books. NONE of the books will
tell the therapist what she needs to know. 99% of books
I have read on bipolar disorder either are long sad
stories, or written for the person who has bipolar
disorder but lack the hard core information that people
really need to know if they are helping someone who is
not stable.<\/p>\n
Then the therapist will probably jump on google and run
some searches. She may find my site and try to learn.<\/p>\n
The entire process will take a long time. The therapist
will be learning on the lady who posted on my blog’s
dollar and it will get expensive. Results will not
be there for a long time if ever.<\/p>\n
I realized how this type of thing happens again
and again with bipolar disorder. People in the field
who don’t have a clue, especially many doctors
and therapists. As a result, I created a system to
quickly and efficiently sort through lots of doctors
and therapist who don’t know bipolar disorder
well and find the ones that do.<\/p>\n
One last thing I want to say today. Back to the
bipolar lie. If your loved one always lies all the time
since birth, it’s not bipolar disorder. Many people
without bipolar disorder lie.<\/p>\n
But if you loved one tells the truth most of the time
and then all of a sudden starts making stuff up,
it’s probably signs the person is going into an
episode or is in a bipolar episode already.<\/p>\n
Finally, don’t try to convince a person who has
bipolar disorder and not stable that what they
are saying it not true. It’s a huge gigantic
waste of time. I have wasted tons of time doing
this. Focus your effort on the treatment.<\/p>\n
I feel today I will get hate mail. I will get
one set of hate mail from some mental health
people on my list saying that I am bashing doctors
and therapists. I will get another set of hate
mail from some with bipolar disorder that think
that I say all people with bipolar disorder lie. Even
though I didn’t say that.<\/p>\n
How do I know? Well I had a f.ree teleseminar a year
ago and I talked about these concepts and I got
some hate mail afterwards :). Don’t worry, I
can handle it. I tell the truth and I know some
don’t want to hear it. That’s okay, because I know
that you do.<\/p>\n
If you look at the mortgage industry, lots of
people are in trouble. I think one reason and
this is just one reason, many people didn’t
realize how crooked that mortgage industry is.<\/p>\n
So people bought a house, trusted a m.ortgage person,
the person gave them a loan that was going to
destroy them in the future and well look what’s happen
today.<\/p>\n
I tried to tell many people buying houses to be careful,
get second, third and fourth opinions on mortgages
and read some books on the subject.<\/p>\n
I heard time and time again that I was crazy, I was
paranoid, that real estate was going through the roof.
I have no clue. I was like an old man. People mocked
me in many places. I was just trying to help
people prevent disaster because I saw it coming.<\/p>\n
Well check the news and look at what’s going on.<\/p>\n
The reason why I write a lot of what I do, is to PREVENT
the bad things that happen to myself and my family from
happening to you.<\/p>\n
Over the years, there was no one there for me to
ask. There wasn’t anyone to tell me when bipolar
danger was around the corner. As a result, many times
there was bipolar quick sand so to speak and we
got caught in it time and time again. It was really
hard to get out.<\/p>\n
So I try to share these bipolar lessons with you, knowing
that it will make some mad. But I know that tens of thousands
of people will benefit.<\/p>\n
Well, I have to go and I will catch you tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I have a million things to do. I would appreciate
if you have a story about lying and bipolar disorder
you post it for others to read. It can be from a
personal vantage point if you have bipolar disorder
or it can be about a loved one. <\/p>\n
Your Friend,<\/p>\n
Dave<\/p>\n
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<\/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\/<\/p>\n
P.P.P.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give
mini seminars designed to teach you information
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