{"id":635,"date":"2009-01-29T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T13:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2009-03-11T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T00:08:37","slug":"joy-with-your-bipolar-disorder-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/joy-with-your-bipolar-disorder-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy With Your Bipolar Disorder Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How&#8217;s it going?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know, I know, the first thing you&#8217;re probably thinking is, &#8220;Dave&#8217;s really gone crazy this time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next you&#8217;re probably wondering, &#8220;How can you possibly have joy if you have bipolar disorder?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, I didn&#8217;t say it would be easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it IS possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has to do with your attitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s a &#8220;for instance&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you think about the fact that there is no cure for bipolar disorder, you&#8217;ll have a bad attitude, and&#8230; NO JOY.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But if you think about the fact that the disorder can be treated, you can have a good attitude, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JOY!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you think about all the things you&#8217;ve lost because of bipolar disorder, you&#8217;ll have a bad attitude, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NO JOY.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But if you think about all the things you still have despite the disorder, you&#8217;ll have a good attitude, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JOY!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Are you starting to see what I&#8217;m getting at?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JOY IS ALL IN YOUR ATTITUDE!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my courses\/systems, I talk about how your attitudes can affect your stability:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NEW LEARN THE SECRETS OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarmastersystem\/\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarmastersystem\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com\">http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\nVisit:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net\">http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><br \/>\nI met a woman who told me this story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her husband had a stroke when he was 39 years old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No one felt as sorry for him as he felt for himself, and he spent most of his time in bed, full of self-pity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The doctors told him the stroke wasn&#8217;t really that bad &#8211; that with some rehab, he could be good as new!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But would he do it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He just laid around, depressed, full of self- pity, expecting his wife (the woman telling me this story) to do everything for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lost all his joy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Know why?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yep, you guessed it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because he had a bad attitude!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, here&#8217;s the difference, and the moral of the story:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One day, in frustration, this woman said to her husband,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;There are 80-year-old men in your stroke support group more productive than you are!  They swim, go out with friends, go to church, they volunteer&#8230; they&#8217;re happy! They don&#8217;t have a bad attitude like you do, just because they had a stroke!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It took a long time, but slowly and surely this man recovered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because he changed his attitude, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JOY returned to his life!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I told you this story because it&#8217;s the same thing with bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can let it rob you of your joy and you can have a bad attitude (in which case, you&#8217;ll probably stay depressed and never get better), OR&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can choose JOY with your bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which will YOU choose?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">FIND OUT WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT ME<br \/>\nVisit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/testimonials\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/testimonials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>David Oliver is the author of the shocking guide \u201cBipolar Disorder\u2014The REAL Silent Killer.\u201d  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypertracker.com\/go\/Post\/BP_Kills_BlogAd\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/strong> to get <strong>FREE Information<\/strong> sent via email on how and why bipolar disorder kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hi,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">How&#8217;s it going?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I know, I know, the first thing you&#8217;re probably thinking is, &#8220;Dave&#8217;s really gone crazy this time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Next you&#8217;re probably wondering, &#8220;How can you possibly have joy if you have bipolar disorder?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, I didn&#8217;t say it would be easy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But it IS possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has to do with your attitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here&#8217;s a &#8220;for instance&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you think about the fact that there is no cure for bipolar disorder,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/joy-with-your-bipolar-disorder-revealed\/\" 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":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Joy With Your Bipolar Disorder Revealed - Bipolar Supporter Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/joy-with-your-bipolar-disorder-revealed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Joy With Your Bipolar Disorder Revealed - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How&#8217;s it going? 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