My mother had given birth to my sister just two weeks before, when she came home from prayer meeting to find her husband dead in the living room.
Years later, my mother would eventually learn that my father had (what they would have called) bi-polar disorder (if that label had existed at the time).
20 years later my sister would be momentarily instituionalized with sucidal tendancies. Thankfully, my mother had learned much since then, and put in place a protocol that would eventually lead to my sister's full recovery.
Our whole immediate family now all understand what causes those kinds of behaviours and what to do if they ever surface.
Labels, once they've been self applied and merged with your very identity, become very hard to shake. Be careful with labels. Never identify yourself as your illness. You should always identify yourself as a child of God first and foremost, because, in fact, that is what you are. If you don't believe that fact, it won't bear any fruit in your life whatsoever and it will be as though you are not a child of God. But you are. So believe it and act accordingly.
If anyone wants to talk to someone who knows for certain that all bi-polar symptoms can be eliminated for good, forever, for anyone, then PM me. I'm not a doctor. I won't take responsibility for your health. That concept is, in fact, part of the solution.
But I have been given a gift through the death of my father. It was a horrible thing. Something I don't wish on anyone. I would have been much better off if it didn't happen. But nevertheless, it did happen, and God has used it wonderously for good in my life. It is my gift, and I wish to use it to help those who have been faced with the same mental challenges.
God bless, and be well.
Years later, my mother would eventually learn that my father had (what they would have called) bi-polar disorder (if that label had existed at the time).
20 years later my sister would be momentarily instituionalized with sucidal tendancies. Thankfully, my mother had learned much since then, and put in place a protocol that would eventually lead to my sister's full recovery.
Our whole immediate family now all understand what causes those kinds of behaviours and what to do if they ever surface.
Labels, once they've been self applied and merged with your very identity, become very hard to shake. Be careful with labels. Never identify yourself as your illness. You should always identify yourself as a child of God first and foremost, because, in fact, that is what you are. If you don't believe that fact, it won't bear any fruit in your life whatsoever and it will be as though you are not a child of God. But you are. So believe it and act accordingly.
If anyone wants to talk to someone who knows for certain that all bi-polar symptoms can be eliminated for good, forever, for anyone, then PM me. I'm not a doctor. I won't take responsibility for your health. That concept is, in fact, part of the solution.
But I have been given a gift through the death of my father. It was a horrible thing. Something I don't wish on anyone. I would have been much better off if it didn't happen. But nevertheless, it did happen, and God has used it wonderously for good in my life. It is my gift, and I wish to use it to help those who have been faced with the same mental challenges.
God bless, and be well.