Bipolar: Getting a Gold Star

Published: Fri, 06/27/14

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Hi,

How's it going for you today?

I hope it's a good day for you.

Do you remember that little foil gold star
that you used to get in kindergarten or first
grade for doing something right or good?

Or maybe your parents even had a chore chart
for you at home for which you got gold stars
if you completed your chores?

Do you remember how good you felt getting
those little gold stars?

It felt great, didn't it?

You'd do anything to get those little stars.

Well...

Those stars are called:

INCENTIVE.

An incentive is sort of a reward for doing something.

It's like motivation that makes you want to do
that thing.

So...

Like I talk about in my courses/systems, the motivation
or incentive your loved one has for doing the right
things with their bipolar disorder would be to get
stable, and I talk about what some of those things
would be.


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Your incentive now wouldn't be gold stars
any more...

But it would be to see your loved one get better
with their bipolar disorder.

So you do the things you think would help them
best.

And if what you're doing isn't working...

You try something else.

And you keep trying things...

Until something works.

Because you want to "get that gold star" -

You want to see your loved one get better.

That's your incentive to do the things you do.

Well...

Your loved one should have their incentive as
well.

They should want to get stable.

The key here is "should," however.

And that doesn't always work.

Sometimes their bipolar disorder gets the better
of them, unfortunately.

And they don't always do what they should do for
their stability.

Like they should take their medication religiously
in order to stay stable.

That's like a "rule" in the bipolar business.

But some people with the disorder do go off their
medications sometimes for various reasons...

And then they get unstable...

And get out of control...

And their symptoms manifest themselves again...

And their bipolar behaviors come back...

And before you know it...

They're in an episode again.

Then there's nothing to do but get them back on
their medications and start all over again.

And hope that this time they'll stay on them.

There's a saying that:

"You can lead a horse to water...
But you can't make him drink."

And that's true, but...

I've also heard that:

"You can't make him drink...
But you CAN make the water salty."

That way...

He'll WANT to drink the water!

In other words, you can provide incentives for your
loved one to want to stay stable.

Like tell them if they stay stable for a month, you can
go out to their favorite restaurant or something.

Or they can go shopping and pick out something they
want.

Or if they stay stable for six months, maybe you can
travel somewhere.

Whatever would be a good incentive for them.

What do you think?


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Well, I have to go!

Your Friend,

Dave

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