Bipolar: Too Much Too Fast

Published: Fri, 12/26/14

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Hi,

How's it going for you today?

I hope it's a good day for you.

I've been thinking about something, and
wanted to share my thoughts with you.

It's about what happens when you try to
accomplish too much too fast.

Think about it.

When you try to accomplish too much too
fast, you are just setting yourself up for
failure, because you'll never be able to do it.

It also gets very discouraging for you.

Also, if you don't know how long something
should take, you can start to think it's taking
too long.

For example, after an episode.

It could take up to a year to fully "fix" the after
effects of an episode.

Like the financial ruin - you can't fix a
bankruptcy in just two weeks!

But some people think you can just do it overnight!

We don't rush the stroke victim or even the cancer
victim, why do we rush the victim of bipolar
disorder?

Thinking that they should be over an episode
after just a week or two is just plain unrealistic
expectations.

Would we have that same expectation if they
were getting over a physical illness?

Then why are we expecting it from a bipolar
episode?

In my courses, I interview people who are success
stories, and they talk about how long it took them
sometimes to fully recover from some of their episodes,
and some of them say it took a whole year, and some
even longer!

You can read about this and hear about it in the
interviews in my courses:


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There are certain things in life that take
a certain amount of time to happen.

It's just the way it has to be.

Think about things in nature.

Like the butterfly - it starts off as a
caterpillar...then it goes into a cocoon...
and only after a certain period of time does
it metamorphose into that beautiful
butterfly!

It just doesn't happen overnight.

And if you interrupt it at any point in the
chain of events, the whole thing would
be ruined!

Some things just can't be rushed.

Other things just have to take place in a
certain order.

And still other things have to take place at a
certain time.

Wanting your loved one who has bipolar
disorder to get over their episode overnight
is like wanting them to be that beautiful
butterfly without going through the cocoon
phase!

Some things are just worth waiting for. You
just have to be more patient sometimes.

I know it's hard to be patient sometimes.

It was hard for me with my mom, too.

But I had to learn to be patient with her as she
learned how to manage her bipolar disorder
and get over her episode.

It didn't happen overnight.

It took time.

Some supporters also expect their loved one to
go right back to being themselves after an episode,
and sometimes that just doesn't happen either -
that's something else that might take some time.

Some family members make this mistake, too,
at the very beginning:

They think, good, now that they are diagnosed,
they can just take a pill and they'll be better.

Then they get frustrated when it doesn't happen
right away.

It takes time even in the beginning to get used
to the diagnosis.

What do you think?


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Well, I have to go!

Your Friend,

Dave

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