Mania is devastating. Mania ruins relationships. Mania gets people fired. Mania gets you drunk, makes you gamble away your child’s college fund, gives you STDs, makes you so ‘creative’ you can’t see that what you’re creating makes no sense. Mania… is… dangerous.<\/p>\n
I talk about mania in these terms because I have been there, my former partner was there and in the hospital for two months and I work with families in my coaching business who are either dealing with a manic child who has left the family to ‘take a trip around the states to see what’s out there!’ , has left a partner for greener pastures, is in jail, stopped their medications (this is often the reason for the mania), bought a $10,000 painting because it was so beauuuuuuutifuuuuuuuul!<\/p>\n
I have seen and felt the destruction of mania.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I am here to tel you that mania starts small- it’s starts with small signs that if you notice them early as either the person with bipolar disorder or as a loved one- you can stop the destruction.<\/p>\n
Here are three:<\/p>\n
1. Suddenly feel better after a depression or a long period of wondering what is wrong with life and why you feel so down, uncreative and unloving all of the time. And then the mind clears and things are wonderful and you have energy again and you want to have sex again and you just love everything!<\/p>\n
2. You stop sleeping all day and think of what a good idea it would be to get out and go to a park.<\/p>\n
3. Beer and other alcohol or drugs look good and you no longer think of their destruction if you do them too often.<\/p>\n
4. You can talk to anyone.<\/p>\n
5. You suddenly feel very irritated and restless after being lethargic and unresponsive during a depression.<\/p>\n
6. You want to beat someone up!<\/p>\n
If you look at my mania Health Card, you will see all of this. I need to get mine out and look at them today. If you don’t have the Health Cards or Take Charge or any\u00a0other way to see the beginning signs of mania, I suggest you find something today. It’s summer and mania is on the move.<\/p>\n
There is a link to the right where you can read more about my books and how they help with mania. I use all of the ideas in my books daily.<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mania is devastating. Mania ruins relationships. Mania gets people fired. Mania gets you drunk, makes you gamble away your child’s college fund, gives you STDs, makes you so ‘creative’ you can’t see that what you’re creating makes no sense. Mania… is… dangerous.<\/p>\n
I talk about mania in these terms because I have been there, my former partner was there and in the hospital for two months and I work with families in my coaching business who are either dealing with a manic child who has left the family to ‘take a trip around the states to see what’s out there!’ , has left a partner for greener pastures, is in jail, stopped their medications (this is often the reason for the mania), bought a $10,000 painting because it was so beauuuuuuutifuuuuuuuul!<\/p>\n
I have seen and felt the destruction of mania. <\/p>\n