When You Don't Feel Like It With Bipolar

Sometimes, with bipolar disorder, you don't feel like doing everything you're supposed to do to keep it under good management. You don't feel like taking all those pills, or going to all those appointments, or exercising or eating right, etc.

So what do you do when you don't feel like doing all these things? You press on anyway, knowing that you don't want to face the consequences if you should stop doing them.

If you don't keep doing all the things you're supposed to do even when you don't feel like doing them, the consequences are worse, usually that you will go into a bipolar episode, and you don't want that.

You need to press on, even when you don't want to. It helps to have a positive attitude, to keep in mind the stability that doing the things you should brings you.

If you have a negative attitude, it's easy to fall into the "I don't feel like it" frame of mind, and then you start letting things slip, jeopardizing the very stability that you hold dear.

There was a time when I fell into that "I don't feel like it" frame of mind, and I let it get a hold of me. I even went off my medications, because I "didn't feel like" taking them any more. You guessed it! I went right into a bipolar episode!

After that, I began to take my medications religiously, as well as to do all the other things I do to keep me stable, even when I don't feel like it. Stability is just too important to me, and I don't want to pay the consequences.

Sometimes, like I said, you just have to press on, even when you don't feel like it. It will be worth it in the end, when you remain stable for a long period of time and go without those bipolar episodes you so dread.

Don't forget to check out my bipolar book at: www.brokenroseministries.com

Wishing you peace and stability,

Remember God loves you and so do I,

Michele