http://www.bipolaradvantage... Bipolar disorder can be turned to your advantage by following the eight steps of the Freedom Stage Loop. This keynote address was presented at the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists annual meeting in Sacramento, California on May 17, 2013.
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The number one question I get from parents is "What do I do about my loved one who is in denial?" The answer is that we diagnose people by painting a picture of a future not worth living. We have to give people a vision of a life worth striving for or else they will deny facing it. Everyone will deny our condition if they believe it is a life sentence that can never be overcome or that we will only survive. This playlist is about turning our lives into greatness, not just surviving.
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com/ Bipolar disorder can be turned to your advantage by following the eight steps of the Freedom Stage Loop. This keynote address was presented at the California Associ...
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com/ This video introduces the Bipolar IN Order Concepts, Assessments For Success, Advanced Tools, and Stage Specific Plans that are part of the Bipolar Advantage educat...
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com What is unfortunate today is that far too many people continue to cling to the old belief that it is impossible to live a full life with a mental condition. On the o...
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com In speaking with several authorities, there is great confusion as to what role hallucinations and delusions play in bipolar, depression, and even schizophrenia. The ...
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com The current standard of care as defined by the National Institute of Mental Health is to minimize symptoms and accept the high probability of relapse. While many too...
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com How insight is an important part of turning bipolar or other mental conditions into an advantage. There are great advantages to being bipolar once you have insight.
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com We can all become free from having to react to triggers and other bipolar stimulus in the same old way. Bipolar does not have to control our lives. We can become fre...
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com Bipolar stability means getting to the point that we can function in all conditions. Aiming to have no highs and lows in bipolar is not stability, it is fear.
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com Once we reach equanimity it becomes so obvious that hiding from our bipolar condition will never work. Bipolar is part of equanimity, not something to avoid.
http://www.bipolaradvantage.com We can learn to act in an exemplary fashion no matter what our bipolar condition. This video is part of a talk at San Bernardino County Mental Health Department Annu...