This Bee Buzzing in circles

A circle goes round and round. It goes down just to come back up and complete itself. It constantly is going in these directions to make a whole part or as we know it a circle. That is my life with Bipolar. I go round and round. I go down with depression just to come back up with a bout of mania. I don't swing very low anymore or swing very high because I am on the right medication. But when life is hard, we can give up or we can come to Jesus with our problems and wait patiently for His answer.

It is imperative that you get a doctor that you like and can honest with. It is also imperative that you stay in contact with that doctor if you are having major cycling. Most of all you must take your medicine everyday. Now that it is pretty outside it is also helpful to get out as often as you can and get some sunlight. I have trouble with this because I don't work and I stay in the house alot.

For those family members out there that have members with bipolar please try and be patient. You can try to understand what the person is going through but you never really can. You can be compassionate and pray for that person. You can be a friend and listen. Often times that is what we need the most, and I know you want to try to fix things especially if you have children with Bipolar. But there is no fixing, there is stabilizing and maintaining a good healthy relationship.

I am sorry for all the things that we put our family members through, and I am sure most Bipolar people are, but it is what it is and we can't dwell on the past. Don't let it destroy your relationship instead let it enhance it. I know with the bouts ofanger and frustration that comes with cycling, you think how can a relationship be established. Well Noah built a boat when it had never rained before, and he did it by blind faith in God. Believing what God had promised Him and His family if only He would be faithful and do as God commanded. Low and behold, He built that boat and it began to rain. The act of believing and faith in God saved Him and His whole family.

You and your family have to have that kind of attitude. That even though I may not see the end of the road or the end to all this mess that Bipolar can be, I am going to step out by faith and believe God is with me and He will guide me and my family through. When everything is not as you dreamed it to be and no one dreamed of being Bipolar, hopelessness can dominate your life. We can hold on with open hands, knowing that we have hope because God is faithful.

Just remember that cycling is just a process that we with Bipolar have to deal with and with that down there is always a up. It makes a complete circle a circle of love that makes you complete and unique and who God made you to be. So just roll with punches and don't fret because if today is a bad day ( and we all have them-Bipolar or not), as the old song goes, "the sun's coming up in the morning." So with that holds new promises of God's love.