Your posts are interesting on this.
Can you help someone who is bipolar change the way they look at what others do or say? I know someone who is bipolar, and this person tends to look at things from a very negative viewpoint, so misinterprets the other person’s intentions. It’s like being in a courtroom where you are judged guilty for everything you do, and there’s no defense lawyer allowed to explain why someone said or did something, It’s like a toxic spiral downward.
How do you help someone stop thinking in negative terms? Can they be helped if they think everyone else is the problem?
Ultimately, there is only one way to develop a positive attitude...and that way is Jesus.;-)
For a positive attitude to be realistic and durable, it has to be based on "real" hope.
BTW, I am mildly bipolar (cyclothymia). My case got better with age.
…but I used to struggle with how to interpret others as well as my own “wrong” thinking…
…my simple self came up with…
…sometimes there are hardware problems…
…and sometimes there are software problems…
…the user may have a he best of intentions…
…but occasionally we need bug fixes and physical work arounds to get the user’s intended outputs…
…(yeah I know, I’m a bit of a simpleton 🤣)…
There's the one you hear about from everyone else (an often kind of cheap, tacky rendition). And then there's the actual person you encounter when you seek him on your own.
The 2 persons are not remotely similar.
I do a demonstration with groups to show how prayer is a process that raises the frequency of your consciousness above the lower frequencies of fear and worry.
Part of it I have a person pull in the worst traumatic memory they ever experienced in their life. Often they start crying and/or shaking it’s so traumatic.
I then anchor it on their forearm while they are remembering it.
Next I have them say a silent prayer to themselves and I anchor it on the same location on their forearm.
I ask them to count from 5 down to 1 to clear their thoughts.
Next I ask them to recall the traumatic memory.
About 40% cannot even remember what the traumatic memory was. The remaining 60% remember it, but there is no negative emotion attached to it. They say it’s like they are watching it on tv and it happened to someone else.
I explain that they did all the work, not me. All I did was connect their prayerful thought to the trauma memory. They can do what I did with their other hand and they don’t need me.
Prayer is powerful.
This is not temporary. The trauma is healed permanently.
Often, I will actually touch the trauma prior to the prayer and it knocks them over, even though I’m many feet away from them. After the prayer, I touch the same location in their soul and show them it’s no longer there.
The trick to it is that they must tap their forearm until the memory anchor point in their body moves to their forearm, from wherever it was previously attached. This is very true when there were physical injuries associated with the trauma.
I did this demonstration at the Divinity School for a large group to show them how prayer worked, and why it sometimes doesn’t.
One other thing, people on medications like SSRI’s can pray for an hour and they cannot raise the frequency of their consciousness as there is a disconnect created by the drugs. This is why they often have a flat affect when on medications.
Pharma has a non spiritual evil use in that it blocks people from growing closer to God. However, it is sometimes necessary temporarily as it can save lives too.