Bipolar Disorder - Sometimes You Have to Wait

When you have bipolar disorder, sometimes you have to wait for the results you want. You can't always have what you want when you want it (as much as you would like to).

Some things may come quickly, such as when you have a quick (and positive) result from a new medication; however, other times you have to wait for longer-term results, such as stability.

This can be difficult, especially if you're one of those people who is used to getting what they want when they want it. Bipolar just doesn't work that way.

Not that you want it to be in charge of you (in fact, you want the opposite - you want to be in charge of it), but there are some things that just take time to work out the way you want them to, like bipolar stability, for example.

In order to attain bipolar stability, you have to do certain things. Like take your medication on a daily basis, go to see your medical and mental health professionals on a regular basis, maintain a good sleep schedule, eat a healthy diet, and exercise.

In addition, you need to stay productive, and do other things to maintain a healthy emotional life as well as a healthy physical and spiritual life.

You also need to stay balanced in every way, and you need to do it on a regular, long-term basis. Stability doesn't happen overnight.

That bears repeating - stability does NOT happen overnight. It takes long term devotion to doing the things you need to do to maintain that stability. That takes an investment on your part, and it doesn't comes easily, nor quickly.

Usually, however, the things most worth having are worth waiting for, and stability is no different. You will find, as time goes on, that you will begin to feel better, and it will have been worth the wait as you attain your goal.

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Wishing you peace and stability,

Remember God loves you and so do I,
Michele