{"id":695,"date":"2009-02-17T11:05:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T15:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-03-11T19:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T23:31:33","slug":"with-bipolar-dont-always-imagine-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/with-bipolar-dont-always-imagine-this\/","title":{"rendered":"With Bipolar Don&#8217;t Always Imagine 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;\">I saw an interesting post that said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I thought you were a wierdo on the make; taking advantage.I ignored most of the emails and felt angry.However today I have discovered the comments by other sufferers and this was because I realised you had words of comfort and wisdom in your updates which made me look further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For some reason, I have gotten a few people this past week asking to work for me but then asking me questions suggesting that I was running some kind of scam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which obviously I am not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am glad this person sees that I am working hard to help. It&#8217;s no simple task.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was reading a book and saw this quote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened,&#8221; by Mark Twain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was thinking about this and it reminded me of many negative supporters who think everything will go wrong and nothing will go right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now bipolar disorder is serious and things do go wrong, but you just can&#8217;t be thinking about all the negative things all the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you concentrate on all the worst things, you can&#8217;t help your loved one get better, because it will make you have a negative attitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then your loved one will pick up on it, and they will have a negative attitude, too, and they won&#8217;t get better.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They&#8217;ll just start thinking, &#8220;I&#8217;ll never get better.  I may as well just give up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s just like that Mark Twain quote. They&#8217;ll just start imagining all sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just like you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you start thinking about the worst things all the time, you&#8217;ll start imagining that things will happen, and they might not even happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like you&#8217;ll be walking around on eggshells waiting for the next episode to happen, when it might be YEARS before the next time your loved one goes into an episode again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And what if your loved one does the same thing?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In my courses\/systems, I talk about how a positive attitude vs. a negative attitude can affect your loved one&#8217;s stability.<\/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><\/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&#8217;m not saying that you shouldn&#8217;t plan for things that might happen.  I&#8217;m not saying that at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You still have to plan but many times, people imagine the worst all the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You should still have your Episode Emergency Plan in place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, even though you don&#8217;t want your loved one to go into an episode, and you shouldn&#8217;t be worried about it all the time, you should still have a plan in place in case they do.  That&#8217;s just smart thinking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What you do is, you make a list of all their medications (keep it current, too) with dosages and when they&#8217;re supposed to take them, and have it in a handy place in case they do go into an episode and have to go to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also keep a list (current) of their doctor, psychiatrist and therapist, with names, addresses, and phone numbers handy, along with all other contact numbers, like family, etc. for the same reason.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, if you have any documents, you need to keep these somewhere where you can get to them easily if your loved one goes into an episode and needs to be hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For example, if you keep them in a safety deposit box and your loved one needs to go to the hospital on a Sunday, you won&#8217;t be able to get to the documents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These are documents like a Power of Attorney and a Medical Release Form, that your loved one needs to sign in advance when they are NOT in an episode.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So what I&#8217;m saying is not that you expect the worst so that you&#8217;re in a constant state of worry, but you still plan for emergencies in case they happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can still keep a positive attitude, especially for your loved one, but still be prepared at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can, as the saying goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Plan for the worst, but hope for the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What do you think?<\/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 saw an interesting post that said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I thought you were a wierdo on the make; taking advantage.I ignored most of the emails and felt angry.However today I have discovered the comments by other sufferers and this was because I realised you had words of comfort and wisdom in your updates which made me look further.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For some reason, I have gotten a few people this past week asking to work for me but then asking me questions suggesting that I was running some kind of scam.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/with-bipolar-dont-always-imagine-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 Don&#039;t Always Imagine 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-dont-always-imagine-this\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"With Bipolar Don&#039;t Always Imagine This - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How&#8217;s it going? 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