Hi,<\/p>\n
How’s it going? I have to make it quick because
I am really behind today. I overslept. I’ve
been under a ton of stress lately. <\/p>\n
Tomorrow I think I am going to tell you one
strategy that I use to deal with lots of
stress. Actually I will probably tell you
two. <\/p>\n
Anyway, things have grown so fast with all
this bipolar stuff it’s hard to keep up.
Not to mention that I run 4 businesses
in total.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was most frustrating because I
received numbers threats against me
including one person that said that I
“was working with drug companies to
medicate and destroy bipolars.”<\/p>\n
This person suggested that the world
would be better without me and he was
going to get me.<\/p>\n
Oh well I know the person was in an
episode because half the conversation
he liked me and the other half he
wanted to kill me.<\/p>\n
NOTE-I get some many threats on a daily
basis, it’s amazing and really annoying.
I try not to take it personal but sure
is hard because I don’t have a personality
that loves hearing and reading threats and
just looking the other way. But this
organization sure has taught me how
to improve this skill \ud83d\ude42 There
have been some people that call
and write with nice things only to
threaten the next week. <\/p>\n
This brings up an important point
with bipolar disorder. It’s a mood
disorder that impairs someone’s
judgment when they are not stable.<\/p>\n
So you have to be careful even with
your own loved one. People not getting
the right treatment from a good
doctor and do something bad. That something
can be violent. My mom has taken swings
at me, spit on me, punched me sort of,
thrown a phone at me, etc.<\/p>\n
If she is not stable I always watch
her hands and make sure I can defend myself.
I NEVER assume that my mom is my mom and
would never do such a thing. Why? Well
it’s because if she is not stable I
can’t assume that her motherly instinct
will override her instability.<\/p>\n
With that said, I was speaking to someone
that said his wife was never violent in
any bipolar disorder episodes but then in the last
couple of years has become violent.<\/p>\n
My mom on the other hand has gone the OPPOSITE.
My mom use to yell, scream, cry TONS. And I
mean TONS. But in the last year, that happens
less and less and less.<\/p>\n
I was talking to Michele Soloway who has
bipolar disorder and she said she is not
violent but her sister was (her sister
killer herself and had bipolar disorder), but
she noted how bipolar can change with time.<\/p>\n
So you have to constantly watch, learn
and plan for the worst but hope for the
best. That’s why when you look at my courses
at:<\/p>\n
SUPPORTING AN ADULT?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/p>\n
SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/p>\n
HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?
Visit:
http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/p>\n
You will notice that I try to cover every possible
situation. For example, the violent person, the drinking
person, the non violent person. The person who wants
to go to the doctor, doesn’t want to go. The person
who gives permission for you to talk to his\/her doctor
the person that doesn’t.<\/p>\n
I do this because a person with bipolar disorder can
change and you need to have a strategy if he\/she changes
and not just say, “Man, this stinks, they weren’t suppose
to do that, they never generally did something like
that but now they did and I don’t know what to
do…this isn’t fair. What the heck???”<\/p>\n
That’s the kind of thinking my dad has. Not so
much any more. BUT my dad still is too dependent
on me as my mom’s supporter. I am working to
stop this and shift more responsibility to him.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I have to run and will catch you tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Your Friend,<\/p>\n
Dave<\/p>\n
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.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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hi,<\/p>\n
How’s it going? I have to make it quick because
I am really behind today. I overslept. I’ve
been under a ton of stress lately. <\/p>\n
Tomorrow I think I am going to tell you one
strategy that I use to deal with lots of
stress. Actually I will probably tell you
two. <\/p>\n
Anyway, things have grown so fast with all
this bipolar stuff it’s hard to keep up.<\/p>\n