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Goal Setting, Record Breaking
Sue Bergeson
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
One of the sessions at the upcoming DBSA 2007 National Conference that most interests me is the one where Greg Louganis, five-time Olympic Champion, will be talking about his journey. I remember watching and cheering for him as he competed in the Olympics. I remember my complete awe at his grace...
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Sunick
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 01:09 PM
In general bipolar people more so than 'normal' people need goals to keep them going and motivated.
I had a goal .. to develop and write the most user-friendly, all-encompassing IT system to run any company. I met that goal five years ago. Then got bored before extending the goal to make the system work in an entirely new way.
See: www.QXLite.com
Having done that a couple of years ago I really went off the rails ... got hounded out of my own company ... totally bereft of a future I "swallowed the pills".
60 hours later I came to, called an ambulance, spent 24 hours on an ordinary ward, caught the bus home and carried on.
Found goals .. that were too grand ... or before their time. Spent 6 months rapid cycling with periods very near suicide.
Now have some goals ... to influence the world's perception of bipolar people.
See: www.bipolarperceptions.wordpress.com
I am in the process of setting up 'standardised' training courses for bipolar people - including a new mechanism (to be shared shortly) to modify brain physiology to keep processing in the 'best' brain area ... allows the bipolar brain to intercede before reaction to emotions. A really great drug free mood stabiliser. The approach will be web-based to allow use of the technique to be monitored as well as self-assessed as to its efficacy.
As part of the latter project, I plan to use my IT skills to setup a course booking and management system for the whole of the UK. This will be done via a not-for-profit company, Bipolar Trust .. with a charity of the same name and the web site www.BipolarTrust.org (soon).
Then go international ?
I have a creative brain .. a second goal is to see a new engine design of mine built and proved. My first engine design was 'stolen' and is currently being built by a US company.
It is a tragedy that with such creativity the brain can be made to think that one feels worthless with NO future !
No more !!!
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Robin K Annen
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 04:15 PM
Sorry my love,
I will support you in my thoughts and intentions. I am in Dallas. I too am overcoming rapid cycling with meds. Sorry, this is not what you want to hear.
Some really do not get better without the meds. After the first few months of weirdness you get balanced and then you can control this. But you will always be a bi-polar. Just manageable. I always say goaling and hugs get you farther than anything. I am great on computers and understand confidentiality ahving been in the medical field and sales, I know first hand the real needs of people.
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Therese
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 08:07 PM
Hi, Sue.
I set tiny goals. I plan out my day hour by hour and (try to) accomplish my hourly goals. If I fail to set my hourly goals, the day flies by and I have done nothing.
Thanks for the great post!
Therese
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Robin Kemmerer-Annen
Monday, June 25, 2007 at 03:44 PM
Sue, I am a bi-polar and recurrent depressive, over the terrible child abuse I suffered. It was nothing compared to what happened to me as a medical health professional. The very ones who were to help me hurt me the most. I have proof. It got so bad in fact I suffered, ptsd as well as fibromyalgia on top of the already existing mental status. I found a great physician in Dallas, Tx.The Md I worked for was a Harvard trained SWMS (IM) MD. He knew the symptoms of bi-polar, he knew I had to wear a tens unit, he knew I was suffering, because I only worked for him, I was over worked and underpaid,but in my mind I needed to be there to supprt myself and did not have enough training to go elsewhere. He took great advantage of me and even refused me after 5 years and only 5 official days off a year, to use one of them day for a colon screen to recover. He treated me like cattle. His patients loved me because I was willing to go a step further than most and had a caring tone to them. I suffered malpractice from a hospital nearby,after a hard fall off a ladder and the insurance company I was precerting for only chastized me and we only had half hour lunch breaks nad two fifteen minute breaks so I had no time to get a lawyer to help me I was forced to sit all day on a broken back and under intense pressure to meet deadlines. This was just prior to working for this md. I was terrified to work for an MD as I was told they are careless and inconsiderate, and I would be in constant conflict with office staff. I overcame this and tried anyway. I stayed because I had to. There was not enough support out there for me. Noone would help me.This proved true when he let a retied Rn with two huge hearing aides help me in the office. She was in my way, causing me constant grief, telling him lies behind my back and I was his only real staff, but he hired a company to take care of me and payroll etc so he would not be responsible for me or connected (techincally with me in any way) CYA theory. So I continued to see my Md for fibromyalgia and stress on my lunchbreaks. (acupuncture). It took many years of his questions and tracing to discover I was an untreated genius with severe pain.
I recently found out this same physician I worked for blackballed a position I was more then qualified to do by telling the staffing agency that I took too much time off for medical reasons. This is so wrong. So worng. On top of that he is also one of them Md's that reviews disability sppeals and reviews. If he was that inconsiderate to me just think how inconsiderate he will be with the very ones who need compassion the most. I remember patietns with bone on bone and severe pain just crying and crying because he was afraid to give them the medicine they so badly needed. I watched this for 5 years. You tell me?
I am a vicitm of the system that does not work.
This physician may be good at medicine but he is lousy with people. I recently got a letter from a patient of his from New Jersey. She had to almost break the arm of his current secretary to get my address to tell me she loved me. I keep in touch with her. But now the damage is is done and I am unable to sit very long or lift or stand so I wait for my disability decision.
I qualify and would like to add that the depakote 125mg bid along with Cymbalta 30mgs has to conquire the depression but it does nothing for the pain or CF/FM. This I must control on my own. Can someone help me? With love Robin in Dallas I have skills I would love to use but need to know who I can train with or for to ue what I have. How can I help?
Who can I help? I have no money just love and power.
Thank you
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