Newbie's Guide To Bipolar Disorder; 10 Keys to Understanding Your Impairment

WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:10.750 It's only head and now it's online Bible this stylecom yes, emotions with Bible 2 00:00:11.429 --> 00:00:16.589 style. Hey, welcome back to bipolar style for September two thousand and nineteen. 3 00:00:16.629 --> 00:00:21.940 I'm your host, Johnny emotions. Come on in. So today I've 4 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:26.179 got a kind of a top ten list of the things that you can look 5 00:00:26.219 --> 00:00:32.179 out for when your first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and I think we'll just 6 00:00:32.340 --> 00:00:36.850 call this the newbies guide to bipolar disorder. Listen to this if you've been 7 00:00:36.890 --> 00:00:42.409 recently diagnosed and share it with your friends and family if you think it might 8 00:00:42.490 --> 00:00:47.130 help your situation, because it is pretty scary. So let's just jump right 9 00:00:47.170 --> 00:00:54.560 in. Number one, the diagnosis. This is tricky, right. You've 10 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:59.320 been feeling crazy, at at your wits end for a while, maybe sad, 11 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:06.310 maybe unhinged. You finally get into a doctor and they say you have 12 00:01:06.469 --> 00:01:10.950 bipolar disorder. Now that's interesting, right, because a lot of people, 13 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:15.590 well, it's evenly split, probably, and a lot of people have both 14 00:01:15.590 --> 00:01:19.060 feelings, but a lot of times people are horrified at that. The patient 15 00:01:19.099 --> 00:01:23.900 we're talking about, the patient families, are always horrified at diagnosis that they 16 00:01:23.900 --> 00:01:27.739 don't understand. But as a patient, just remember just because a doctor told 17 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:33.769 you you have bipolar disorder today or yesterday or whatever, you're not a different 18 00:01:33.810 --> 00:01:38.489 person than you were a week ago. You are still you. So don't 19 00:01:38.530 --> 00:01:44.409 let the diagnosis change who you are. You are fine as you right. 20 00:01:44.530 --> 00:01:48.480 You just have a disorder that can be dealt with and be managed and you 21 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.879 could live along prosperous life. So don't let that part get you down. 22 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.480 In fact, a lot of people, self included, when I was told 23 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.510 that, when I was given a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, a lot of 24 00:02:01.629 --> 00:02:05.629 things clicked. I'm like, AH, so it was kind of like a 25 00:02:05.750 --> 00:02:08.469 relief, like a weight had been lifted off my shoulder, like I wasn't 26 00:02:09.430 --> 00:02:15.469 incurably crazy in my head. I actually had something that was identifiable, that 27 00:02:15.629 --> 00:02:20.860 have symptoms that other people could recognize and that doctors could help me treat, 28 00:02:21.219 --> 00:02:27.460 doctors meaning, you know, psychiatrist, pharmacist and therapist. So the diagnosis 29 00:02:28.060 --> 00:02:31.849 unto itself is hard to take for your friends and family understand that to you 30 00:02:31.889 --> 00:02:37.129 might as well tell them been diagnosed with cancer, because some people really freak 31 00:02:37.169 --> 00:02:39.729 out when you say you've got bipolar disorder. In fact, I've known families 32 00:02:40.050 --> 00:02:46.400 that would rather them here that you were diagnosed with cancer, then bipolar disorder. 33 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.560 So because at least with cancer it's black and white. It's either cure 34 00:02:49.639 --> 00:02:53.960 to some pine or you die at some point. With bipolar disorder they don't 35 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.080 really know exactly what it is. They know the symptoms, but they don't 36 00:02:57.080 --> 00:03:00.189 know exactly how to treat it. Everybody's different and it goes on for fucking 37 00:03:00.349 --> 00:03:06.069 years. So know that if you have bipolar disorder, is going to go 38 00:03:06.189 --> 00:03:08.710 on for years. That's why it's important to remember you are still you. 39 00:03:08.789 --> 00:03:14.419 You're the same person you were a week ago. Don't let that part throw 40 00:03:14.419 --> 00:03:17.340 you off track. The one thing I would recommend, though, for sure, 41 00:03:19.379 --> 00:03:23.900 is to get a second opinion, or third or a fourth. I'm 42 00:03:23.979 --> 00:03:28.409 not saying go shop around doctors until you get the opinion you want. I'm 43 00:03:28.449 --> 00:03:35.210 just saying the bipolar disorder stigma is very strong and if you're labeled with that 44 00:03:35.810 --> 00:03:39.569 and they're not able to help you get past the the initial shock, it 45 00:03:39.689 --> 00:03:43.879 could do a lot of damage when you start telling people you have bipolar disorder. 46 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:47.439 So make sure that that is what you have, and the only way 47 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:52.039 to do that is to get a second or third or fourth opinion. For 48 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:54.710 example, lots of people have mania and, I'm sorry, lots of people 49 00:03:54.750 --> 00:04:00.469 have depression and anxiety. Anxiety is the most common mental health problem in America 50 00:04:00.509 --> 00:04:06.789 right now. Depressions probably in number two, close behind depression and anxiety together 51 00:04:08.069 --> 00:04:12.259 can kind of feel like bipolar. Your Moody, your sensitive, you know, 52 00:04:12.379 --> 00:04:14.860 the whole realm of I remember going to go through all the all the 53 00:04:15.099 --> 00:04:19.259 symptoms, but they match up pretty closely. The difference is mania. You 54 00:04:19.459 --> 00:04:24.610 turnsy Cotic, you hear voices, you start to you know things that aren't 55 00:04:24.610 --> 00:04:30.410 really there. Psychosis can set in right that's mania. If you're just hyper, 56 00:04:30.569 --> 00:04:32.170 if you're running around cleaning the house, that's not mania. You do 57 00:04:32.370 --> 00:04:36.810 you might not have bipolar disorder if that's all that you're dealing with. So 58 00:04:36.970 --> 00:04:41.319 you need to have some psychic I'm sorry, some psychic you need to have 59 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:46.959 some psychological break. There has to be an issue of true mania where you 60 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:51.560 experience psychosis. Look up the you know, symptoms of psychosis and see if 61 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.310 you have those. If you don't, and if you just hyper and talking 62 00:04:56.430 --> 00:04:59.750 fast and upset and anxious and can't leave the house and you're depressing you want 63 00:04:59.750 --> 00:05:02.589 to kill yourself, you might not be bipolar. You could still just have 64 00:05:02.750 --> 00:05:09.019 depression and anxiety. So always I know insurance is hard to come by, 65 00:05:10.139 --> 00:05:15.420 life is expensive, the medical system in America sucks ass and it's going to 66 00:05:15.459 --> 00:05:18.139 be hard to get anybody to want to give you a second opinion or to 67 00:05:18.300 --> 00:05:21.689 pay for a second opinion, let alone a third or fourth opinion. Just 68 00:05:21.930 --> 00:05:26.490 remember that one critical thing. If you're not psychotic, if you haven't reached 69 00:05:26.529 --> 00:05:30.290 psychosis, you probably don't have mania and you may not have bipolar disorder. 70 00:05:30.329 --> 00:05:33.610 So when it comes to the diagnosis, make sure they get it right in 71 00:05:33.649 --> 00:05:38.759 the beginning. Otherwise you can go ten or twenty years taking the wrong medicine 72 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.439 with no effect. How do you like them apples? That fucking sucks. 73 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:46.839 Not speak from experience there. So move it on to number two, the 74 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:49.750 abbreviations. This can get tricky, especially when you start doing when you do 75 00:05:49.870 --> 00:05:55.910 your research online or you're on social media and things like that. So bipolar 76 00:05:55.949 --> 00:06:00.189 disorder is pretty straightforward. You just take the B and the d. So 77 00:06:00.269 --> 00:06:04.180 if you're going to initialize it, bipolar disorder is bed. There's another similar 78 00:06:04.339 --> 00:06:10.620 condition called borderline personality disorder, which, again using the rules of initials, 79 00:06:10.740 --> 00:06:14.540 you take the be and the P and the D. that's bpd. For 80 00:06:14.660 --> 00:06:19.449 some reason people still call bipolar bpd. I don't know why, because we 81 00:06:19.529 --> 00:06:27.970 don't hyphenate by words anymore. It's not binoculars or bicycle or binary, it's 82 00:06:28.490 --> 00:06:31.730 bipolar. It's one word. STARTS WITH THE BE. No, you don't 83 00:06:31.769 --> 00:06:39.240 capitalize the P just that confuses everybody. So with regards to the initials, 84 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:43.560 just remember, just look following somebody on twitter or something that says bepd. 85 00:06:44.120 --> 00:06:47.230 Double check. Are they borderline or they bipolar or do they have that? 86 00:06:47.750 --> 00:06:50.629 And there's tons of others, but those are the two to make. Make 87 00:06:50.629 --> 00:06:56.029 sure to get right, because if the doctor is old fashioned and still usings 88 00:06:56.110 --> 00:07:00.699 in by words, he might put bpd meaning bipolar disorder, when it he 89 00:07:00.860 --> 00:07:06.300 just wrote borderline personality disorder. Just clarify with whoever you're dealing with whether or 90 00:07:06.339 --> 00:07:12.540 not they have bed or bpd, using the rules of initials. Got It. 91 00:07:13.300 --> 00:07:17.089 So number three, mendication, like I just mentioned. If they get 92 00:07:17.129 --> 00:07:23.529 the diagnosis wrong, the medication for bipolar disorder will not work for you. 93 00:07:24.370 --> 00:07:29.329 So if your medicines not working, go back and try something else. Ask 94 00:07:29.449 --> 00:07:34.439 Them for the next thing. There the medicine research becomes a rabbit hole. 95 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:39.240 On the Internet you can just dig deeper and deeper and find all kinds of 96 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.279 things to take and reasons not to take it. Anyway, let's just all 97 00:07:42.319 --> 00:07:46.829 agree that the chemicals in medicine do change your brain. They're supposed to change 98 00:07:46.829 --> 00:07:50.310 your brain for the better. If they're not, then they just don't working, 99 00:07:50.550 --> 00:07:55.269 and that's okay. You're not broken again. You might not have bipolar. 100 00:07:55.629 --> 00:07:59.259 You might just be taking a medicine for bipolar and you're anxious or something 101 00:07:59.300 --> 00:08:01.740 like that. Again goes back to the original diagnosis. Make sure you get 102 00:08:03.060 --> 00:08:05.819 first, second, third opinions and then, when it comes to medication, 103 00:08:05.220 --> 00:08:11.060 don't be shy if it's not working and you still feel suicidal angry. That's 104 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:15.889 another thing. Depression makes people angry. So if you feel angry, you 105 00:08:15.970 --> 00:08:20.050 could be the depression taking it out around you know, on the people around 106 00:08:20.089 --> 00:08:22.129 you. I would like to say it's not your fault, but you are 107 00:08:22.170 --> 00:08:26.250 in control of that, your emotion. You can not control of your emotions, 108 00:08:26.250 --> 00:08:28.240 but you're in control of whether or not you open your mouth. So 109 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:33.480 just be aware that depression makes people angry and inform those around you that it 110 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:37.120 might just be a symptom of depression. And if you're taking something for bipolar 111 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.509 disorder, like an Antipsychotic Med that's not addressing the depression. Well, Shit, 112 00:08:41.549 --> 00:08:43.669 you just going to be angry and the meds aren't going to work. 113 00:08:45.590 --> 00:08:48.470 So do your research on the meds and make sure the meds match and accurate 114 00:08:48.830 --> 00:08:54.470 diagnosis. Number four, just briefly, the symptoms from mania to depression. 115 00:08:54.470 --> 00:08:58.460 I just talked about depression a minute ago. There some things about depression that 116 00:08:58.500 --> 00:09:03.059 people don't understand. It's not simply sadness. To me, depression feels more 117 00:09:03.139 --> 00:09:07.940 like having the flu, the nausea and the screaming headache, but that lethargy, 118 00:09:09.220 --> 00:09:13.210 like your body's just been weighed down by there I can't fucking get up, 119 00:09:13.330 --> 00:09:18.370 can't do anything. You lose all your motivation. Soon you lose hope. 120 00:09:18.490 --> 00:09:22.610 Your hopelessness just pervades everything. That's depression. Yeah, for sure, 121 00:09:24.289 --> 00:09:28.639 depread. That's why depression leads to suicidal ideation and suicide itself. Is because 122 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.000 if you're living so hopeless from day to day to week to week, Shit, 123 00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:35.320 it's like, I don't want to kill myself, but I just don't 124 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:37.559 want to endure this. If this is the way it's going to fucking be 125 00:09:37.710 --> 00:09:41.110 forever, than fuck it. I'm done. And that's where a lot of 126 00:09:41.149 --> 00:09:45.710 people get so if your depression is kicking your ass, go back to see 127 00:09:45.750 --> 00:09:48.750 your doctor and let him know. Just be out, be outspoken about your 128 00:09:48.789 --> 00:09:52.629 depression, because it will fucking kill you if you're not it, or it 129 00:09:52.669 --> 00:09:56.220 can kill you, you know what I mean. So the symptoms of depression. 130 00:09:56.620 --> 00:10:00.899 Obviously, anger, lethargy, acting out. Sadness, of course, 131 00:10:00.980 --> 00:10:05.820 is one, but it's not necessarily the primary one. I would say it's 132 00:10:05.820 --> 00:10:11.169 hopelessness is the primary one. And then when we get through Hypo mania, 133 00:10:11.370 --> 00:10:13.049 which is like mania light, I guess, is a good way to say 134 00:10:13.090 --> 00:10:16.850 it to a lay person, you know, that's that still could be anxiety, 135 00:10:18.090 --> 00:10:20.720 that could be adhd. You could be just the spas. Pardon my 136 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:26.080 friends, and in the UK. I realize spas is offensive to you the 137 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.559 way FAG is offensive to Americans, but hey, let's trade off on those 138 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:33.279 words. I'm going to keep saying spas because I have that too. Okay, 139 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:35.429 I am a spas when use the word I want to use. Anyway, 140 00:10:37.470 --> 00:10:39.830 I'm a spass, but it might maybe I'm not maddic. Maybe it's 141 00:10:39.870 --> 00:10:43.830 just the HD, the ADHD. And getting back to the whole idea of 142 00:10:43.909 --> 00:10:48.230 mania. If you haven't been psychotic, like out of touch with reality, 143 00:10:48.789 --> 00:10:52.940 you might not have mania. Don't wear that label so readily because once you're 144 00:10:52.980 --> 00:10:56.059 label with it, you're more fucked than you might think. Number five is 145 00:10:56.179 --> 00:11:01.779 easy one to measure and it's a hard one to attain perfection with in that 146 00:11:01.899 --> 00:11:05.809 sleep. Sleep is a huge thing. Anytime you go to a doctor about 147 00:11:05.889 --> 00:11:13.129 mental health issues, when especially mania or hyperactivity or anything like that comes up, 148 00:11:13.409 --> 00:11:16.529 one of the first questions that going to ask you how's your sleep? 149 00:11:16.889 --> 00:11:18.440 Are you getting eight hours a day? Is it the same eight hours? 150 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.759 Are you sleeping too much? You're sleeping too little? This is this is 151 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:24.840 key. So I use a little alarm tells me when to go to bed. 152 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:28.600 Despite the fact that we're watch on my wrist and there's clocks all around, 153 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.429 I still don't I don't think about it, even with an alarm. 154 00:11:33.309 --> 00:11:37.389 Thirty PM comes around, like I was alarm, I'll hit it and I'll 155 00:11:37.429 --> 00:11:39.429 turn it off. I fucking find myself still up at thirty because I turn 156 00:11:39.470 --> 00:11:45.149 the alarm off anyway. It's good to have reminders. And also the other 157 00:11:45.230 --> 00:11:48.259 side of that is, if you want to be sleepy at nighttime, get 158 00:11:48.299 --> 00:11:50.059 the fuck up out of bed in the morning. If you'll, if, 159 00:11:50.100 --> 00:11:52.700 say, if your alarm goes off at eight o'clock in the morning and you 160 00:11:52.779 --> 00:11:56.740 keep whacking it until it's eleven, well, yeah, of course not going 161 00:11:56.740 --> 00:12:00.539 to be tired come midnight. You still going to be awake. The key 162 00:12:00.659 --> 00:12:03.570 to getting good sleep is to waken the fuck up. I know you don't 163 00:12:03.570 --> 00:12:05.289 feel like standing up. Maybe if you're depressed, you won't even want to 164 00:12:05.289 --> 00:12:09.450 get out of bed, but wake up like wake wake up, stand up 165 00:12:09.450 --> 00:12:13.049 for a second, sit back down, whatever you got to do, but 166 00:12:13.250 --> 00:12:16.159 you got to get up in the morning if you want to participate in life 167 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.840 with everybody else. The rest of the world gets up in the morning and 168 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:22.519 goes to bed at night. It's a very natural human cycle for you to 169 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:24.840 be standing up till two or three or four in the morning on the fucking 170 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:28.080 Internet, you know, browsing social media or shopping on Amazon or whatever. 171 00:12:28.480 --> 00:12:31.990 That's not helping you at all. You got to get sleep, and you 172 00:12:31.110 --> 00:12:35.110 are in control of your sleep. How? By getting the fuck up out 173 00:12:35.149 --> 00:12:37.669 of bed in the morning. I guarantee. If you get up out of 174 00:12:37.750 --> 00:12:41.470 bed at the rig of the time each morning, you're going to start to 175 00:12:41.509 --> 00:12:45.340 be tired at the same time each night and eventually you might actually get eight 176 00:12:45.419 --> 00:12:48.980 hours of sleep on a regular basis. That's key. It's nice to be 177 00:12:48.019 --> 00:12:50.940 able to go and tell your psych doctor, Yep, I got my eight 178 00:12:52.019 --> 00:12:56.019 hours of sleep, Yep, but been sleeping regularly all week long. That's 179 00:12:56.059 --> 00:12:58.450 cool, that's a good thing to do. And then the natural component to 180 00:12:58.610 --> 00:13:05.610 sleep is number six, diet and exercid eyes. fucking mental health twitter generally 181 00:13:05.490 --> 00:13:11.289 hates this idea because the moment you mentioned diet and exercise, they try to 182 00:13:11.330 --> 00:13:15.440 clap back with that's not gonna Carre it. We look, motherfucker. We're 183 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:16.879 not saying it's going to cure it, we're saying it's going to help you. 184 00:13:18.519 --> 00:13:20.759 Got It. No, it won't cure it. If you have bipolar 185 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:26.000 disorder, Diet and exercise will not cure you, but it's not going to 186 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.070 hurt you either if you start drinking more water and going outside for a walk 187 00:13:30.190 --> 00:13:33.950 now and then. And the Diet and exercise also contributes to better sleep. 188 00:13:35.509 --> 00:13:41.070 So once you get in a systematic kind of rotation of sleep. Wake up 189 00:13:41.190 --> 00:13:43.899 on time in the morning. Get up, even if you don't you have 190 00:13:43.980 --> 00:13:46.299 to do anything on a lot of people that are sick don't have jobs or 191 00:13:46.299 --> 00:13:48.100 anywhere to go, or even hobbies. But just fucking get up, read 192 00:13:48.100 --> 00:13:52.179 a book, stare out the window, something, just be awake. Get 193 00:13:52.220 --> 00:13:56.929 up and try to eat protein for your brain. Don't eat sugar. Sugars 194 00:13:56.970 --> 00:14:01.129 horrible for you. Sugar is my Achilles heel right now. I love it, 195 00:14:01.929 --> 00:14:05.090 can't do without it. Trying to figure out how to get rid of 196 00:14:05.129 --> 00:14:07.610 it anyway. So again, like I'm not perfect at all, I'm just 197 00:14:07.690 --> 00:14:11.000 saying these are the things that help. These are not the things that will 198 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.440 cure you, but they will definitely help. Now, if you are family 199 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:20.919 member listening to this, just stay out of it. Don't because family members 200 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:22.960 kind of suck at this. Family members say, well, you hurt that 201 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.590 vodcast. I say you got to get diet and exercise. It's not for 202 00:14:26.750 --> 00:14:31.350 you to say it's for us the pace and to figure that out on our 203 00:14:31.350 --> 00:14:35.909 own. We know Diet and exercise can help, and now you know diet 204 00:14:35.990 --> 00:14:39.059 and exercise can help. It's not a cure, but it can definitely help 205 00:14:39.620 --> 00:14:43.299 eliminate sugar, drink more water. If those are the two tips I can 206 00:14:43.340 --> 00:14:46.820 give you on diet, stop eating sugar, drink more water. Exercise. 207 00:14:48.220 --> 00:14:50.539 It doesn't even matter. Just get up and move. You could walk a 208 00:14:50.700 --> 00:14:54.330 hundred feet, that's enough. If you can do a hundred feet, walk 209 00:14:54.370 --> 00:14:56.850 a hundred and twenty feet the next day you get it. Just incrementally build 210 00:14:56.850 --> 00:15:01.929 up your exercise until the pumps are moving into blood's pump and everything's like starting 211 00:15:01.970 --> 00:15:07.009 to rotate through your system the way it should. Laying in bed drinking sugar 212 00:15:07.049 --> 00:15:09.960 all day, looking at the Internet. No, that's horrible. If you 213 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.720 weren't sick before, that will make you sick. So I'm not going to 214 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:18.960 harp too much about that. It's pretty obvious all the researches on the Internet. 215 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.830 If you're not paying attention to it, you're ignoring it on purpose, 216 00:15:20.870 --> 00:15:24.789 then fine, you just going to be sick. That's the decisions up to 217 00:15:24.870 --> 00:15:28.710 you. Number seven, this one's kind of cool too. I like this 218 00:15:28.830 --> 00:15:35.100 one. Alternative Treatments. So is it really weird? There's Jesus people out 219 00:15:35.100 --> 00:15:41.460 there, Christians and Muslims and Jews. I don't know all the religions of 220 00:15:41.500 --> 00:15:43.779 the world whatever, but in a lot of people are full into their religion 221 00:15:43.860 --> 00:15:50.570 and there against Med's, there against medications and pharmaceuticals. I'm I lean more 222 00:15:50.610 --> 00:15:52.649 towards science. I know the chemicals will change the way you feel. If 223 00:15:52.730 --> 00:15:56.529 you take the right ones, that will make you feel better. Cool, 224 00:15:56.409 --> 00:16:00.570 but that said, I know prayer makes few people feel better. I know 225 00:16:00.730 --> 00:16:03.840 going to church, the community of being around people that are similar to you, 226 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.320 that has a positive effect on humans. I can't pull myself to go 227 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:11.320 fake it to be in the church or anything like that. But I'm not 228 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:17.159 going to dismiss people who use church as an alternative method. Again, like 229 00:16:17.279 --> 00:16:19.990 the Diet and exercise, though, it could help, but it's definitely not 230 00:16:21.309 --> 00:16:25.789 going to cure you. And the same thing goes with the bullshit the crystals 231 00:16:25.909 --> 00:16:30.789 and the healing and the energy healers and all that whatever. And if you 232 00:16:30.830 --> 00:16:33.340 want to go down that path, good luck. That's not going to help 233 00:16:33.340 --> 00:16:36.779 you. Again, it might make you feel better in a weird way. 234 00:16:36.779 --> 00:16:38.460 I mean, because I'm like in the FUNC Suay, which you know, 235 00:16:38.620 --> 00:16:41.580 scientist will say, well, you're an idiot like and I'd like. I 236 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:45.940 read my astrology too, but I don't live my life by it. It's 237 00:16:45.940 --> 00:16:48.409 just entertainment. In FUNC Suay, for example, I just don't like facing 238 00:16:48.450 --> 00:16:52.009 a wall. My desk never faces a wall. That's bad. You'd like 239 00:16:52.490 --> 00:16:55.970 facing a wall when you're trying to work, where all your energies Pam just 240 00:16:56.049 --> 00:16:59.690 right into the wall. That's dumb. But again, you know, that's 241 00:16:59.730 --> 00:17:03.319 just my opinion. So with alternative healing, just take it with the grain 242 00:17:03.319 --> 00:17:07.559 of salt, like Diet and exercise, the crystals and the prayer, all 243 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:11.240 that stuff. I mean, it might help you feel better in a placebo 244 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:14.880 kind of way, or even a realistic way. I mean people say there's 245 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:17.789 scientists that are said no, prayers proven to work. I don't know. 246 00:17:18.390 --> 00:17:22.710 Good might choose your choose your poisons carefully, though, whether it's medication or 247 00:17:22.750 --> 00:17:26.950 Jesus. They're not going to cure you if you have bipolar disorder. They 248 00:17:26.990 --> 00:17:30.019 will just help, like diet and exercise and sleep. Those things might help 249 00:17:30.140 --> 00:17:33.900 if they make you feel better. I'm just I'm really leary of people like 250 00:17:34.380 --> 00:17:38.579 hey, stop your maids and smoke weed, or just try these crystals, 251 00:17:38.619 --> 00:17:42.380 then a salt bath, or it likes handles and do all a man. 252 00:17:45.170 --> 00:17:48.809 Yeah, treat yourself. Well, that's a good idea. Treat yourself well. 253 00:17:48.329 --> 00:17:53.569 But the alternative medicines and treatments, yeah, I'm not going to recommend 254 00:17:53.609 --> 00:17:59.119 those. I would say some of them are downright dangerous, but that's up 255 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:02.279 for you to decide. You're an adult, mean hopefully, I mean I 256 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:04.319 think you're probably an adult. So, yeah, he could do what you 257 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:10.359 want. Just know that the other ones start with this, start with the 258 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:12.910 sleep and the Diet and exercise before moving on to the crystals in the Jesus. 259 00:18:12.990 --> 00:18:15.950 Okay, that's a good thought. Yeah, seems common sense to me. 260 00:18:17.589 --> 00:18:21.309 Now number eight. This one gets really tricky. I call number eight 261 00:18:21.390 --> 00:18:26.700 coming out. So do what I mean. I mean. You're in America. 262 00:18:26.859 --> 00:18:30.099 They have thing called Hippah Health Insurance Privacy Act or something like that, 263 00:18:30.859 --> 00:18:36.579 so your medical information is supposed to be secure and private. If you get 264 00:18:36.579 --> 00:18:41.140 a diagnosis like bipolar disorder, nobody else knows. They bye know that you're 265 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:44.369 not performing well at work or at school, but they don't know that you 266 00:18:44.410 --> 00:18:48.450 have bipolar disorder. Whether or not the public knows you have a mental illness 267 00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:52.769 is entirely on you. If you decide to come out somebody with the mental 268 00:18:52.930 --> 00:18:56.759 illness, there are huge risks involved. With that. What are they? 269 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:03.160 Let me tell you. Your job. They can fire you. They're not 270 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:06.880 supposed to quote unquote illegal, but you know, there's a lot of shit 271 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:10.470 that's illegal. That happens all the time. Mass shootings happen on the regular 272 00:19:10.509 --> 00:19:14.470 in America. That's illegal, it still happen. You will get fired from 273 00:19:14.470 --> 00:19:18.990 your job if you exhibit signs of Mental Health Disorder, and especially if you 274 00:19:19.069 --> 00:19:23.339 acknowledge it, to say hey, I have bipolar disorder, I've borderline, 275 00:19:23.700 --> 00:19:27.299 I have adhd, what, whatever it is, people around you will treat 276 00:19:27.299 --> 00:19:30.579 you differently and the upper management will use that to get rid of you. 277 00:19:30.980 --> 00:19:34.220 And because they're not stupid, they will never say they're getting rid of you 278 00:19:34.539 --> 00:19:37.650 because of that. You got it. So an ideal world? Yeah, 279 00:19:37.690 --> 00:19:41.809 Oh no, that's wrong, that's not fair. Well, whatever, we 280 00:19:41.890 --> 00:19:44.769 have to live in the world that exists, not the one we wish existed. 281 00:19:45.410 --> 00:19:48.569 So be really careful. Also, here's another crazy, creepy thing. 282 00:19:48.609 --> 00:19:52.119 If you come out on the Internet with your real name, like in your 283 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:56.720 linked in profile or twitter or facebook or whatever, and you're using your real 284 00:19:56.799 --> 00:20:02.079 name, it just spouting off a nothing like Oh, I'm sick, I'm 285 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:03.880 sick as fuck. I want to kill myself. I have this. I 286 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:07.190 have that. You know what, all that data is being collected on you 287 00:20:07.309 --> 00:20:11.509 and attached to your name. In the future you might be denied insurance, 288 00:20:11.750 --> 00:20:15.029 you might be rounded up put into a cage. You don't know. These 289 00:20:15.069 --> 00:20:19.950 are kind of slippery slope argument, I'll admit, but it's dangerous. It 290 00:20:21.150 --> 00:20:25.140 could happen and I've heard the government talking about this already. For example, 291 00:20:25.900 --> 00:20:29.980 one of the ideas that the White House is floated in America is to monitor 292 00:20:30.059 --> 00:20:33.500 all of the phone calls of the mentally ill to try to prevent gun violence. 293 00:20:34.220 --> 00:20:37.130 So, first of all, how the fuck do they know you're mentally 294 00:20:37.170 --> 00:20:41.210 ill? They can't just like monitor everybody's phone call. Where they going to 295 00:20:41.250 --> 00:20:45.450 look? They're going to scour all the data they have, including your social 296 00:20:45.490 --> 00:20:48.009 media account, and then they'll track your phone without you even knowing it. 297 00:20:48.569 --> 00:20:52.960 That's problematic to me, and not only just I mean aside from the creepy 298 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:56.160 thing of the government listening to your phone calls and potentially putting you in a 299 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.240 locked room. That's one thing. The other thing is, again like the 300 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:04.829 idealistic world where insurance shouldn't cancel you because you've got one condition or another. 301 00:21:06.470 --> 00:21:10.190 They're not going to admit they canceled you for that reason. Duh. If 302 00:21:10.269 --> 00:21:12.710 you've got an insurance company that sees you're posting nothing but how sick you are, 303 00:21:12.829 --> 00:21:15.990 how you can't get out of bed or work, or you're sick, 304 00:21:15.150 --> 00:21:18.859 not weak, whatever it that's, that's going to be a problem for you 305 00:21:18.900 --> 00:21:22.259 too. So lots of things to consider when you come out, so to 306 00:21:22.339 --> 00:21:26.579 speak, coming out as a bipolar person, a person with bipolar disorder. 307 00:21:26.779 --> 00:21:30.019 I'll really like to phrase it. So just just be aware. There's obvious 308 00:21:30.019 --> 00:21:33.369 that's the obviously the reason I don't use my real name. I don't want 309 00:21:33.410 --> 00:21:37.049 to be in the database. If they want to come after a cartoon face 310 00:21:37.170 --> 00:21:40.049 looks like a Yin Yang and put that in jail, go ahead, I 311 00:21:40.130 --> 00:21:42.609 don't care. It's not me stepping away from that. It's a character I 312 00:21:42.690 --> 00:21:48.200 have created so that I can have a voice and I would consider, I 313 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.160 would suggest that you consider the same thing, either not using your whole name 314 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:56.559 or holding back on some of the more private information. I see literally people 315 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.319 putting pictures of their medications on the Internet. You can see their name and 316 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:03.230 their phone number in the medicine they take. That's dumb. Come on. 317 00:22:03.269 --> 00:22:10.109 And so eight kind of segues into nine with regards to work, jobs and 318 00:22:10.269 --> 00:22:14.950 productivity. Like how does the bipolar person, a person with bipolar disorder, 319 00:22:15.630 --> 00:22:18.859 function in that sense? Now, in the grand scheme of things, I 320 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:22.259 think the whole idea of work is is dumb. I like to be productive, 321 00:22:22.299 --> 00:22:26.900 I like to have, I guess, money, for lack of a 322 00:22:26.980 --> 00:22:29.940 better word, so that I can buy things and have a life. But 323 00:22:30.009 --> 00:22:32.730 when people say, yeah, get a job, fuck that job. Suck. 324 00:22:32.930 --> 00:22:36.410 Anybody that that has a job, job, they hate it. If 325 00:22:36.450 --> 00:22:40.210 you go to work for somebody else, eventually you're not going to like to 326 00:22:40.250 --> 00:22:41.690 go to work for someone else. Maybe you do, I don't know. 327 00:22:41.809 --> 00:22:45.759 I don't. Never liked working for someone else. And you fall into this 328 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.039 trap when your twenties, like Hey, got to get a job, have 329 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:51.119 a family there now, fuck that. WHO said you have to get a 330 00:22:51.119 --> 00:22:52.920 job? All you have to do is eat and live. That doesn't require 331 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:56.440 a job. The government likes say, Oh yeah, the job numbers are 332 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:59.029 up. I don't care, who cares. That means. It's just more 333 00:22:59.230 --> 00:23:03.269 people enslaved to misery. So the idea that you have to work, you 334 00:23:03.430 --> 00:23:07.910 don't. If you're bad enough, if your symptoms are bad enough, apply 335 00:23:07.109 --> 00:23:11.940 for state disability. You Know Sti they call social disability and turns or something 336 00:23:11.980 --> 00:23:15.740 like that. In America it's basically, quote unquote, on the doll but 337 00:23:15.859 --> 00:23:18.700 fuck it. You know, we paid into this system. If you've worked 338 00:23:18.740 --> 00:23:22.299 ever, then you've paid into it by living here. We pay into it. 339 00:23:22.500 --> 00:23:26.819 Oh, what's socialism? But who cares? We're taking care of each 340 00:23:26.819 --> 00:23:29.650 other. All I'm saying is you don't have to work, you don't have 341 00:23:29.769 --> 00:23:33.809 to be productive. There's no requirement to be a productive human on earth. 342 00:23:33.329 --> 00:23:37.089 I wouldn't go on the Internet and say Hey, I'm a unproductive person. 343 00:23:37.250 --> 00:23:40.970 That's you know what good will come from that? I'm just saying, like, 344 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.680 just reapproach the idea of work and productivity and jobs. If you've really 345 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.720 got it bad, if you've got bipolar disorder really badly, come up with 346 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:56.910 a hobby and seriously, just get your social security check, pay your rent, 347 00:23:57.069 --> 00:24:00.990 buy some food, start a podcast. It's virtually free. He buy 348 00:24:02.029 --> 00:24:04.430 a Micre Secondhand Mike, Borrow Mike. I'll send you a mic whatever, 349 00:24:04.869 --> 00:24:08.390 just you don't have to work. And to the families that might hear this, 350 00:24:08.869 --> 00:24:14.099 quit pushing people to work, push them to be in alignment with themselves, 351 00:24:14.579 --> 00:24:18.180 if they're an artist or a creative person or dancer or whatever. Push 352 00:24:18.220 --> 00:24:22.380 them to do that. That will take care of the depression. Forcing them 353 00:24:22.460 --> 00:24:26.890 to a miserable job that's going to make things worse. So really, really 354 00:24:26.970 --> 00:24:30.009 think hard about whether or not you can actually work and if that's an important 355 00:24:30.009 --> 00:24:34.130 thing in your life, meaning the work. Obviously some kind of income is 356 00:24:34.210 --> 00:24:37.599 important because you need to eat, you need shelter, but it doesn't have 357 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:41.680 to come from work. It could come from anywhere. There's people with trust 358 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:44.799 funds, there's people, like I said, they get social security from the 359 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:48.000 government. There's lots of different ways to generate money or food. is just 360 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:52.400 start a farm. Just go live somewhere where it's really cheap to live, 361 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:55.029 like in this little town. You can start a little farm and grow your 362 00:24:55.069 --> 00:24:57.990 own food. I'm not saying that that's practical. I'm just saying that you 363 00:24:59.029 --> 00:25:02.109 should reconsider the idea of that trying to get a job as practical. It 364 00:25:02.230 --> 00:25:04.509 might not be practical, so don't stress too much about it. Don't make 365 00:25:04.549 --> 00:25:08.099 that your first goal. The first goal should be to get better and then 366 00:25:08.220 --> 00:25:11.579 decide can I handle a job. Is that the right job for me? 367 00:25:11.660 --> 00:25:15.019 Am I even in the right field of work? All those things need to 368 00:25:15.099 --> 00:25:18.940 be considered. And then, lastly, number ten. I call it support 369 00:25:19.019 --> 00:25:22.450 network. You're going to want to develop a support network. Not all of 370 00:25:22.529 --> 00:25:29.049 our families are supportive of our diagnosis and not everybody with a similar diagnosis is 371 00:25:29.210 --> 00:25:33.849 supportive of other people with that. So what helped me a lot was the 372 00:25:34.210 --> 00:25:40.559 depression and bipolar support alliance. You can find them on the Internet at DBS 373 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:45.960 ALLIANCE DOT ORG. They were helpful because they have what are called peer support 374 00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:49.349 groups, which are just groups of other people with depression and bipolar a meet 375 00:25:49.630 --> 00:25:53.470 regularly and you sit in a circle. There's no table, you just sit 376 00:25:53.549 --> 00:25:56.589 there. You go around the circle and you listen to people share and you 377 00:25:56.710 --> 00:26:00.109 can share yourself if you want. If you have something you need to get 378 00:26:00.109 --> 00:26:03.549 off your chest, something that you know others will understand in the group. 379 00:26:03.230 --> 00:26:07.180 That's a great place to do it. It's it's like a call a quote 380 00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:12.579 unquote, safe space for bipolar folks. So DBSA, DBS ALLIANCE DOT ORG. 381 00:26:14.180 --> 00:26:18.019 That's a great peer to peer group. It's free. They're not everywhere, 382 00:26:18.099 --> 00:26:21.529 but if you're anywhere near kind of a bigger city or town, there's 383 00:26:21.569 --> 00:26:26.089 probably a branch nearby. I've been in places where they don't exist. In 384 00:26:26.130 --> 00:26:27.730 people say, yeah, you should start when yourself. Fuck that this like 385 00:26:27.849 --> 00:26:32.849 it's like being sick isn't enough work. Trying to start a group of other 386 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:36.880 sick people. It's like crawling cats. It's too much work. So peer 387 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:40.480 support groups are great. The Internet is another place to find help, but 388 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:44.000 don't expect it. Don't expect much help like I do this show, for 389 00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:48.670 example. You think it would be helpful, but honestly, nobody that has 390 00:26:48.750 --> 00:26:52.630 other podcasts or blogs that I did. I mean I've met a couple people 391 00:26:52.670 --> 00:26:56.269 from this show and we've exchanged interviews, but other people outside of your network, 392 00:26:56.349 --> 00:27:00.029 they don't give a fuck about you. So don't expect people that have 393 00:27:00.190 --> 00:27:06.420 their own blogs or shows or podcast or whatever to come and ask you to 394 00:27:06.539 --> 00:27:08.579 be on their show like I would ask other people, and I used to 395 00:27:08.619 --> 00:27:12.220 bring a lot of guests on so they can share their stories and their projects, 396 00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:17.089 but they don't reciprocate. So I'm like, well, that's a waste 397 00:27:17.089 --> 00:27:18.609 of time and you know if you're going to reciprocate, if you want to 398 00:27:18.650 --> 00:27:22.930 invite me back on your show, then I'm not going to do that kind 399 00:27:22.930 --> 00:27:26.730 of show anymore. And so you might find the same problem if you're all 400 00:27:26.809 --> 00:27:30.200 hell bent on becoming a social media mental health advocate, so to speak. 401 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.160 You know, hey, I'm an advocate. Great, but just know that's 402 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:36.359 a hobby. You know, no one's going to pay you to do that. 403 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:38.480 It's good for you. You didn't get it out of your system. 404 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:42.319 You got to be kind. Don't say things you know. I have a 405 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:47.470 issue with people posting trigger warning kind of stories on the Internet. That's very 406 00:27:47.470 --> 00:27:49.029 passive aggressive in my mind. You know, if you have if you know 407 00:27:49.150 --> 00:27:52.309 it's going to trigger somebody, why the fuck are you sayin it anyway? 408 00:27:52.589 --> 00:27:56.990 Just shut up. Can't you keep your mouth shut? It's not more important 409 00:27:56.990 --> 00:28:00.660 for you to for your ego to get that message out than it is to 410 00:28:00.859 --> 00:28:04.700 protect the other person's feelings. I mean there's, you know what I'm saying, 411 00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:11.740 Shit. People feel certain ways about things like suicide or molestation or things 412 00:28:11.779 --> 00:28:15.009 like that. If you know they already feel bad in those might trigger them. 413 00:28:15.089 --> 00:28:18.730 Why would you trigger them, especially as an advocate? No, maybe 414 00:28:18.849 --> 00:28:23.289 become just like a person like me. This is a personal journal podcast. 415 00:28:23.369 --> 00:28:27.599 It's not an advocacy it's not a medicine or health podcast. So I'm say 416 00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:30.359 what the Fuck I want, but if you're claiming to be a advocate, 417 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:36.759 don't post trigger warning things. Just be kind, be compassionate, be understanding 418 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:38.440 that other people don't want to hear that or see that kind of stuff. 419 00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:42.789 So when you're building your network it's always important to like, what's the end 420 00:28:42.869 --> 00:28:45.589 goal? If you're going to be an advocate, being advocate, and if 421 00:28:45.630 --> 00:28:49.549 you're going to go to a peer support group, be supportive and what's what's 422 00:28:49.589 --> 00:28:53.630 really need those. As you gain more insight into your condition, you do 423 00:28:53.750 --> 00:28:57.859 actually have more to share. You really have to push back the EGO and, 424 00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:03.819 you know, again, not post things just to get like, a 425 00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:07.660 response or likes or clicks. You know a lot of people like here's, 426 00:29:07.779 --> 00:29:10.369 here's the term I heard. For example, the other day I was watching 427 00:29:11.890 --> 00:29:15.009 bill burr has a new stand up, paper tiger, on Netflix. Of 428 00:29:15.210 --> 00:29:18.529 like bill burn in the past. I like him as a person. Seems 429 00:29:18.529 --> 00:29:21.690 like an interesting guy. I like his other works, cartoon if his for 430 00:29:21.769 --> 00:29:26.440 family all that stuff. His latest stand up special, though, is this 431 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:29.599 thing I called clapture. I didn't make up the term. There's a term 432 00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:36.599 called claptor, I'm sorry, claptor clap teer, and that's basically when comedians 433 00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:41.829 go out there and say jokes for applause and approval instead of for laughs. 434 00:29:41.829 --> 00:29:45.910 And I feel that way a lot of times with social media, I'm sorry, 435 00:29:45.910 --> 00:29:51.710 with mental health advocates on social media, is that they're not there to 436 00:29:51.710 --> 00:29:55.019 actually get laughs. In other words, they're not there to help. They're 437 00:29:55.140 --> 00:30:00.059 they're just to get clapped and applause and, you know, validation. So 438 00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:03.339 if you're an advocate, you're not there to get validation for yourself, you're 439 00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:07.250 there to help others. So just always know your role. It's okay, 440 00:30:07.289 --> 00:30:11.329 you don't have to be an advocate, just don't call yourself that. And 441 00:30:11.410 --> 00:30:15.009 then the other thing is along the same lines of know your role. If 442 00:30:15.089 --> 00:30:19.369 you are not a licensed therapist or a trained psychiatrist, you can't be a 443 00:30:19.450 --> 00:30:23.519 mental health coach. That doesn't make any sense. That seems like you're cutting 444 00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:29.960 corners. What qualifications do you have to, quote unquote, coach somebody about 445 00:30:30.599 --> 00:30:33.359 mental health? That's for a doctor. You know what I mean. So 446 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:38.269 watch where you go with the networking, the peer support, the advocacy. 447 00:30:38.750 --> 00:30:42.230 It's all good. And again remember, you know, back to number eight, 448 00:30:42.430 --> 00:30:45.309 coming out publicly. You got to decide whether you're going to use your 449 00:30:45.309 --> 00:30:52.140 own name, an Avatar of some kind or whatever. But so many things 450 00:30:52.299 --> 00:30:55.660 to consider. One other thing to considers just not doing anything, you know, 451 00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:57.819 like the there's a flip of like don't just don't just sit there, 452 00:30:57.900 --> 00:31:02.299 do something. One of my favorite quotes I heard from a Buddhist was don't 453 00:31:02.339 --> 00:31:07.890 just do something, sit there. So maybe consider that. If you're about 454 00:31:07.890 --> 00:31:11.490 to post something that requires a trigger warning or about to be provocative, if 455 00:31:11.569 --> 00:31:17.890 you're calling yourself an advocate, just maybe stop, take a breath, hold 456 00:31:18.009 --> 00:31:22.519 back, don't say anything, just let it go. Let that pranact go, 457 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:25.640 just let it go. Cool, all right. So let's recap real 458 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:27.359 quick. I know I talk fast, but you know the nature of the 459 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:32.680 beast. Number one, diagnosis. Always get a second at third opinion. 460 00:31:33.029 --> 00:31:37.910 Number two, the abbreviations. Bipolar disorder is bed, borderline personality disorder is 461 00:31:38.109 --> 00:31:42.269 bpd. It' see. Number three, medication. Make sure you get the 462 00:31:42.309 --> 00:31:45.230 right kind, the match of diagnosis, or it just won't work. If 463 00:31:45.309 --> 00:31:48.859 it doesn't work, tell your doctor it's just not helping. Don't be shy. 464 00:31:51.099 --> 00:31:55.380 Number for the symptoms. Mania to depression. For Remember, depression makes 465 00:31:55.420 --> 00:31:59.859 people angry and a couple of other things you wouldn't expect, and mania requires 466 00:31:59.940 --> 00:32:02.329 some bit of psychosis. So if you've never lost touch with reality, you 467 00:32:02.410 --> 00:32:07.009 might not have mania. Number five, sleep. Get the fuck out of 468 00:32:07.089 --> 00:32:10.529 bed in the morning. You'll be tired at night. Just do it. 469 00:32:12.410 --> 00:32:15.519 It's number six. Died and exercise. Would like, I said, stop 470 00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:22.359 eating sugar, drink more water. Number seven, alternative treatments, crystals and 471 00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:24.160 Jesus might make you feel better and if they do, good for you, 472 00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:29.200 but they're not going to cure you. Number Eight, coming out publicly. 473 00:32:29.640 --> 00:32:32.470 You know, watch you tell your job, the government, family, you 474 00:32:32.589 --> 00:32:36.710 know all of those entities and people could use it against you. So be 475 00:32:36.829 --> 00:32:42.190 careful coming out. Number nine, rethink the idea of working and a job. 476 00:32:42.549 --> 00:32:45.140 Maybe it's not for you, maybe you'd be better off living in the 477 00:32:45.259 --> 00:32:50.140 forest or something. You know. Just no, not everybody has to have 478 00:32:50.180 --> 00:32:53.700 a job. Got It. And then number ten, your peer support network, 479 00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:59.490 peer groups, online advocacy. Just think about what you're doing ahead of 480 00:32:59.569 --> 00:33:05.369 time and know your role and contribute. You know if and reciprocate. Obviously, 481 00:33:05.490 --> 00:33:08.009 if someone's helping you, then offer to help them back. So that, 482 00:33:08.210 --> 00:33:14.519 in a nutshell, one to ten the newbies guide to buy polar disorder. 483 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:16.720 If you like to contact me, you can try to find me on 484 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:22.799 twitter, bipolar style and and, Oh yeah, bipolar stylecom will take your 485 00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:28.269 right to the web page where you can listen to this without subscribing to itunes. 486 00:33:28.950 --> 00:33:31.190 Cool, cool, all right, next episode is going to be fun. 487 00:33:31.589 --> 00:33:36.349 We're going to talk about mental illness and gun control. That should be 488 00:33:36.950 --> 00:33:39.069 hot topic. You might want to hear some of that. I think my 489 00:33:39.190 --> 00:33:45.700 take on is a little bit different than most liberal, Progressive Mental Health Advocacy. 490 00:33:45.900 --> 00:33:50.220 Can the type people again. Yeah, not actually an advocate. So 491 00:33:50.819 --> 00:33:53.579 I'm going to tell you what I think about gun control and mental illness coming 492 00:33:53.579 --> 00:33:58.049 up on the next bipolar style. I appreciate you hanging out with me and 493 00:33:58.569 --> 00:34:01.329 listening to me rant and know, yeah, especially if you're listening to it, 494 00:34:01.609 --> 00:34:07.009 don't speed or full speed must be. Hey, I appreciate you and 495 00:34:07.329 --> 00:34:12.960 I'll see soon. Take care of by an you don't know. I'm awesome, 496 00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:43.139 baby. Subscribe style cheese as following on twitter. joyless. Excuse me, 497 -->