Being a sufferer of Bipolar Disorder

Being a sufferer of Bipolar Disorder, this Client  gave me permission to present her thoughts and disclose about her condition and problems in suffering Bipolar Disorder. In this case study, you will notice how she handles and shares her true feelings. Its very brave and we have worked together using Integrative Psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy both methods have been very powerful in helping her overcome the symptoms and control thoughts and actions to be able to function as a career woman and everyday life.

A Case Study

Advice For Bipolar Disorder
Being A Sufferer Of Bipolar Disorder

I am diagnosed as bipolar with severe depression/anxiety.  At times, the anxiety is a very crippling thing.  There are days that I can only handle doing one thing at a time.  If you add going to the store, crowds of people, commotion, loud traffic or personal relationships, things become very hard to cope with.

One big thing I have been able to accomplish in the last few years is not taking it out on other people when I am so stressed out, Therapy with Genovieve helped me rationalise my thoughts and reframe my self talk going on in my head.  It’s possible that I am able to refrain from doing that partly because I try to stay away from people as much as possible, going to work is bearable now; I don’t have to go into work everyday as I consider my self lucky to be self employed and contract my services. When dealing with clients and meetings I now choose more selectively where we meet according to how I’m feeling from day to day.  Living with myself and others accomplishes most of that, but it’s still a special thing I have learned to do since starting therapy some while back in 2012 with Genovieve; and it comes from an action that is called being responsible.

This special newly acquired trait of being responsible soon spread over to other aspects of my life.    I started paying more attention to my children as far as the important things are concerned, even though I deeply affected them in a negative way prior to my getting help two years ago.  I have come to the realization that the best and only way I can help them from now on is by the example I set with the rest of my life.

That awakening and the one regarding not taking my hardships out on other people helped me to stop justifying my negative actions or words that I thought were the result of someone else’s actions or words directed toward me.    I guess if I had to wrap it all up into one word, I couldn’t.  It means more using two words…..”being responsible”.  When we all turned eighteen we became (officially) our self’s own individual.

It didn’t matter whether we had the most perfect parents of all time or whether they were only human ones who made mistakes.  We were who we were, a confused person with both negative and positive qualities and probably unaware at the time of how to retain the positive and discard the negative.    It is a shame that if we are lucky, twenty years later we may see the light when our children are resenting us because we made mistakes being a parent.  After eighteen years of age there is no one responsible for you but you.  You may try to hide from that truth your entire life, but you will never truly be happy. I found Hypnotherapy with Genovieve deeply explorative and liberating to make new understandings of old patterns and the people in my life, I think I best understand myself now and enjoy life and my family.

So, here’s the story and I hope its given you an insight of the impact and effects of Bipolar, what you can do to help you get the most of your life is seek help from your Doctor, family or Psychotherapist/Hypnotherapist. Its All Up To YOU!!! Get back Control Stop being a sufferer of Bipolar Disorder. visit http://thechoicetochange.com/take-back-control-of-anxiety-depression-and-stress/

 

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