Each day, we make choices, good, bad or otherwise that take us down a variety of paths. Many choices only effect you, but some can impact those around you.
As my family struggles with bipolar, I'm very aware of how our choices and decisions impact each other and the future. I look at my daughter and worry about how the fact that both her parents are bipolar will affect her. How can I protect her? How can I help her to understand that it's not her fault for our moods? I worry that my sweet girl will blame herself for our foul moods. How can we better equip ourselves to help her to understand? It breaks my heart. Our choices to get help and allow help to be part of our lives, can make the difference between a stable and healthy family and a family with problems. Having the proper tools to help us when dealing with an episode would be awesome.
My hope is that we can make better choices, obtain the tools to not only help ourselves, but strengthen ourselves during the bipolar storms. To positively change ourselves and improve our future as a family. That sounds like a great long term plan to me.
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