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Bipolar Denial by: Family Member of Bipolar Denial
Thank you for your comments Bill and you are right in suggesting the family has to accept that this disorder can certainly be found throughout the family tree line. I like your reference to "riding the bicycle" but my situation is at the point where we have to get our loved one to accept the idea of even getting on the "bicycle" and we are all prepared to help balance the bike from all sides! Where we are at is trying to find the best approach to enable our family member to accept that there is a disorder causing unbalance in their life and with help it can be addressed. We feel like are hands are tied...
Jan 06, 2010 Rating
Family Denial can be added cruelty by: Bill
As a bipolar person, denial is a huge issue, and it helps tremendously in coping with the disease to acknowledge one has it to learn as much about it as possible. As horrid as the disease seems it can have a rhythm between the two wheels of mania (or hypomania) and depression (or severe depression), and once one learns to somewhat ride this bicycle it is not all that bad.
Denial is that fear of even getting on the bicycle of bipolar, for the approach of some less compassionate physicians or families is a presentation that it is solely a matter of an "outer control". Along with intervention there has to be presentation that within the disease, especially these days, there is a possibility of managing it from the end of the one suffering.
Also at a certain juncture in education of the bipolar overcoming denial, they will discover that some family members, a grandparent, a sister, a brother, or a parent, also has either bipolar lite, or full on bipolar, and the FAMILY has to be equally OPEN and not in DENIAL that BIPOLAR RUNS IN FAMILIES (or at least variations on a theme).
