Problem is he’s Jim Carrey. The information is solid but the source has no credibility in this area.
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Jim fights with his depression but he (and I) thinks taking meds as a permanent response to your mental issues is planning for failure. They are not fixing anything. They are not helping anything. They are not allowing you to see the real problem. They are allowing you to cope, to stay the same, to exist, not grow. And that is death.
There is no actual holding still in the natural world. There is only growth and death. If you’re holding still, for example, taking drugs to cope, you definitely are not growing. So you’re dying.
Bipolar, depression, high levels of stress…they’re a gift. A horrendous gift wrapped in pain and suffering and delivered with despair, but a gift nevertheless. Here’s why: they are nothing more than a signal from your body, mind, and heart that something in your life is out of whack. By continuing on the path you have set for yourself, you are not only failing at your life but hurting yourself, too. You are missing opportunities. You are missing out on larger joys. You are missing the point.
Bipolar and the like are nothing more than a slap in the face to wake up! Even if you add in the genetic component, the facts stay the same. The genetic switch is thrown on by trauma of some sort. This is not your fault necessarily. If you are a child of abusive parents and you take one hit to the head too many or one verbal attack too many causing your bipolar to activate, this is not your fault. But as you grow older, if you do not account for the bipolar properly, it directly becomes your fault. Even if set in motion by outside forces, your bipolar is telling you to change. The outside forces, horrible as they might have been, simply changed your operating parameters. You have a new set of rules to take into consideration that others don’t and that’s that. If you change correctly, it will go dormant.
Let’s go back to the example of the beaten child. The mere presence of the bipolar is still just a signal that you must change. Doesn’t matter what kicked it off. The change you must make is how you deal with that earlier abuse, because it most definitely is now running you life and causing you to make nothing but poor choices, endlessly, in all areas. If you could see how to overcome that past trauma and rid it from your being, you’d find your bipolar would seemingly evaporate. The thing that allowed it to live no longer exists.
This whole discussion brings me back to why meds don’t work as a long-term solution. They allow you to COPE with the situation AS IT IS! This is fine for immediate survival, like Jim Carrey says. But for the long haul, you need to OVERCOME the thing that is hurting you. To take a pill that allows you to keep your life just as it is only allows you to ignore your much smarter subconscious that is telling you some damn thing is majorly screwed up in your world. Meds dull, either directly or metaphorically. They cause you to accept your life as is, and fight to keep it static, unchanging, when in fact, you should be fighting for all you’re worth in exactly the opposite direction! You should be changing something. Your life depends on it.
The other stuff Jim says about everything that happens, even the gory stuff, being necessary and perfect is also true. But that is such a deep topic that it rockets right past most people’s comprehensive abilities. It’s too far out for consideration so I’ll limit what I say about this.
Take my bipolar for example. I’ve known for a while of what Jim speaks. My bipolar definitely was a gift. Is that how I saw it when I was sick? You tell me how blessed I felt over the 8 years this list covered:
• 30 jobs
• 2 divorces in which my heart was ripped from my chest and stomped on repeatedly
• 1 two-week coma
• 1 actual death (they kept restarting my heart and it apparently took at one point)
• The endless symptoms I fought daily, which were crushing the life out of me
• the loss of my physical health as my body failed
• multiple arrests making me a felon
• jail stays
• cops beating the crap out of me
• deeply hurting my entire family and all around me who loved me most
• shameful acts the likes of which I’ll never admit to, causing me guilt on an indescribable level
• tens of thousands of dollars wasted
• one bankruptcy for $72,000
• one consolidation for $60,000
• lost all I owned to include a house, two cars, and my gym that took ten years to build
• only see my beautiful little boy every other weekend
• huge legal issues
• the psychic carnage I felt from physically hurting all the people I did while at my sickest ( I was massively violent)
• and much, much more pain and suffering
Does any of that sound like a gift? Well, it was. It brought me to where I am today, which is the best place I’ve ever been in my life. If bipolar hadn’t destroyed me, I’d still be the old me, and he wasn’t working out so well.
And that’s the thing. The Universe, or whatever you’d like to call it, will beat you about the head and shoulders until you WAKE THE HELL UP to your faulty planning. Or it will kill you. I’d rather wake up and face the change.
Of course, you need the right plan to do all that and that is where I come in. Please click here for my Christmas gift to you!
So, don’t pick on Jim anyone. He’s got it right. He’s just a comedian is all. He’s teaching with one arm tied behind his back.
Be well,
Ken
“The Bipolar Eradicator”
www.ItTakesGutsToBeMe.com








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