{"id":5569,"date":"2007-05-19T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/need-help-with-bipolar-disorder-do-not-do-this\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T10:29:00","slug":"need-help-with-bipolar-disorder-do-not-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/need-help-with-bipolar-disorder-do-not-do-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Need help with bipolar disorder? Do Not do this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How are you? I am not doing well. My back is killing<br \/>me. I feel like someone is stabbing me. I actually<br \/>hurt myself training last night.<\/p>\n<p>I should be better in about a week. The reason<br \/>why I am telling you this is not so you can<br \/>feel sorry for me but because it was my hurt<br \/>back that triggered me to send you<br \/>this specific email today.<\/p>\n<p>After I hurt my back, I called a person<br \/>I know that is a doctor. I wanted to<br \/>find out what he recommended. I told him<br \/>exactly where the pain was, what happen,<br \/>how I felt in about 3 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>He immediately gave me a number of recommendations<br \/>and since this is the 3rd time that I hurt<br \/>my back in the last couple of years, he recommended<br \/>that I start to do two more exercises to help<br \/>to prevent this problem.<\/p>\n<p>BUT, in talking to him, I thought of something<br \/>related to bipolar disorder&#8211;the right<br \/>way and the wrong way to ask for him.<\/p>\n<p>Many people need help when it comes to bipolar<br \/>disorder. I am sure that is not news to you.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is 99% of people do NOT ask for<br \/>help in the right away. My dad is a good<br \/>example.<\/p>\n<p>When my mom use to go into an episode, he would<br \/>simply either not ask for help, or wait until<br \/>the last minute when things were a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>But that wasn&#8217;t even the worst of it. When<br \/>he would take my mom to the hospital, he would<br \/>not be clear as to what he was seeing. He would<br \/>kind of ramble and tell a big long story<br \/>instead of get to the point.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, hospital people are super busy<br \/>and don&#8217;t have time for big long stories. So<br \/>many times, my dad&#8217;s message would get lost<br \/>and the things that needed to be relayed<br \/>to the hospital people were never relayed.<\/p>\n<p>As a result over the years, I am sure<br \/>my mom came in on the wrong track and probably<br \/>didn&#8217;t get the best care.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, about a month and half ago my mom<br \/>went into a brief episode. I say brief<br \/>because I caught it. Anyway, my dad called<br \/>me to say &#8220;mom&#8217;s getting sick.&#8221; Again<br \/>he still uses the term sick which<br \/>is a whole other story that I will<br \/>tell you about some other day.<\/p>\n<p>I asked &#8220;why do you say that?&#8221; Then<br \/>he tells me a really long story which<br \/>after 20 minutes I still don&#8217;t even understand<br \/>what signs and symptoms he is really seeing.<\/p>\n<p>I ask specific questions<\/p>\n<p>Is she sleeping?<br \/>Is she cooking random food?&#8217;<br \/>Is she trying to spend extra money?<br \/>Is she talking on the phone a lot?<br \/>Is she doing a ton of cleaning?<br \/>Does she lack the ability to focus and concentrate?<\/p>\n<p>He answered yes to all these questions and then<br \/>I knew it was time to take action.<\/p>\n<p>So I basically evaluated my mom when I saw her.<br \/>NO I am not a doctor and I did NOT diagnose<br \/>or treat her. I simply looked at her and<br \/>asked questions.<\/p>\n<p>Then I looked at my worksheets from old episodes<br \/>and my notes from her first episode and concluded<br \/>she was going into an episode. I took all<br \/>the information and immediately sent it<br \/>via email to her doctor.<\/p>\n<p>That was that.<\/p>\n<p>The problem that I see when people need help<br \/>with bipolar disorder is that they are not<br \/>clear. They don&#8217;t get specific. Unfortunately<br \/>the vast majority of people do NOT have the<br \/>time to hear long stories and rambling.<\/p>\n<p>You have to get specific. If you need help,<br \/>ask specifics. For example,<\/p>\n<p>I need help finding a qualified doctor<br \/>to help my loved one<\/p>\n<p>I need help getting out of d.e.b.t<\/p>\n<p>I need help finding a therapist.<\/p>\n<p>I need a step by step system on what I<br \/>should do when my loved one starts<br \/>yelling at me.<\/p>\n<p>We want to have a baby, we need<br \/>information on how to handle bipolar<br \/>disorder and a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>See how these are specific questions and<br \/>not a lot of rambling? Also, you have<br \/>to be respectful of people&#8217;s time. I get<br \/>on the phone with people that seriously<br \/>want me to spend hours if not days answering<br \/>every single question they have and I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors report to me the same problem<br \/>they have. Therapists tell me the same<br \/>as well.<\/p>\n<p>Many times, 99% of the questions people<br \/>have are in my courses which are here:<\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING AN ADULT?<br \/>Visit:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN?<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>People think that I am being mean when<br \/>I won&#8217;t spend 5 to 10 hours on the phone<br \/>going over exactly what is in my course.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I have to take off now. Have a great<br \/>day. I hope you didn&#8217;t get offended with my<br \/>email.<\/p>\n<p>Your Friend,<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n<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.S Check out my F.ree podcast. Hear me give<br \/>mini seminars designed to teach you information<br \/>you can&#8217;t learn anywhere else.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bipolarcentral.libsyn.com\/\">http:\/\/bipolarcentral.libsyn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How are you? I am not doing well. My back is killing<br \/>me. I feel like someone is stabbing me. I actually<br \/>hurt myself training last night.<\/p>\n<p>I should be better in about a week. The reason<br \/>why I am telling you this is not so you can<br \/>feel sorry for me but because it was my hurt<br \/>back that triggered me to send you<br \/>this specific email today.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/need-help-with-bipolar-disorder-do-not-do-this\/\" class=\"more-link pull-right\" rel=\"bookmark\">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":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Need help with bipolar disorder? 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