{"id":647,"date":"2009-02-02T10:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2009-03-11T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T00:03:25","slug":"with-bipolar-disorder-you-must-avoid-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/with-bipolar-disorder-you-must-avoid-this\/","title":{"rendered":"With Bipolar Disorder, You MUST Avoid This"},"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;\">Well the Super Bowl was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Steelers won in case you care : )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It actually was a great game and right down to the end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I ate a ton yesterday and I feel sick today. I had lots of bad carbohydrates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I gave myself a free eating day so I had pizza, wings (chicken), chips and ice cream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I really feel sick. Oh well it was fun while I was doing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hey, so let&#8217;s jump into today&#8217;s topic. These days there&#8217;s a lot of doom and gloom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You watch the news and you would think the world is going to end tomorrow or in a hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My friend was really down and was getting depressed as we talked about everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I told him to avoid:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CATASTROPHIZING<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do you know what that means? Take a guess and then scroll down. According to psychcentral.com it is n irrational thought a lot of us have in believing that something is far worse than it actually is&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People with bipolar disorder and their supporters do this all the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s so common.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They make something big out of something small.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my courses\/systems, I talk about what the signs and symptoms of bipolar disorder are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NEW<br \/>\nLEARN THE SECRETS OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarmastersystem\/\">http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarmastersystem\/<\/a><br \/>\nSUPPORTING 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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I also talk about how important it is for you, as a supporter, to know those signs and symptoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And it is, no doubt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But catastrophizing would be like if you saw only one sign or symptom and then jumped to the conclusion that your loved one was in a major episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Do you see what I&#8217;m getting at?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Making some big thing out of a small thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like a hypochondriac, who, say, was out exercising, maybe running a little bit, and runs out of breath, then starts complaining that they&#8217;re having a heart attack.  You know those kinds of people, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Making something big out of something small.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s catastrophizing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s what I want you to avoid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I do want you to be vigilant in watching your loved one for signs and symptoms of a bipolar episode (that&#8217;s just a part of being a good supporter), but I don&#8217;t want you to catastrophize over it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just because they have one sign or symptom, or even two, doesn&#8217;t mean they&#8217;re going into an episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And watch yourself as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just because you have the flu, doesn&#8217;t mean you have lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ok, I&#8217;m exaggerating a little bit there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Try to keep the right perspective, and you can avoid:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">CATASTROPHIZING<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I seriously want to ask, have you ever done this? If so, please post a story. It&#8217;s odd how our minds many times think the worst instead of the best.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let me know.<\/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;\">Well the Super Bowl was yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Steelers won in case you care : )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It actually was a great game and right down to the end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I ate a ton yesterday and I feel sick today. I had lots of bad carbohydrates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I gave myself a free eating day so I had pizza, wings (chicken), chips and ice cream.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/with-bipolar-disorder-you-must-avoid-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":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>With Bipolar Disorder, You MUST Avoid This - 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\/with-bipolar-disorder-you-must-avoid-this\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"With Bipolar Disorder, You MUST Avoid This - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How&#8217;s it going? 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