It is a blessing to be associated with a group of like minded friends and families who will understand your situation and instead of showing sympathy, will in-fact share mutual respect and hope.
Bipolar Support Group Chennai is such a great initiative and during its wonderful launch in the City recently, the families and friends who are all care-givers joined together in a hour long discussion which showcased various ways in which the support group can help themselves and each other.
25 Key Take-aways of the inaugural meeting of the Bipolar Support Group Chennai
1. Engage in 'me' time. All participants loved the idea of doing what you like, long forgotten hobbies or interests
2. strengthen your belief in God and not to lose confidence in recovery
3. Encourage spouses to trust in marriage and give a good try to make the marriage sustain and successful.
4. Hope to avoid hatred and feelings to leave and run away from the situations
5. Eat, sleep and exercise properly
6. Rewind good old moments and recall all good work done in the past by the patients.
7. To be responsible for emotional and psychological well being of the family.
8. It is never possible to take full responsibility and to make every one in family to understand the support system
9. Explain the importance of medication by sharing experiences and suggestions
10. Awareness discussion on the disease and to remove the stigma associated to mental illness
11. Take help of doctors or para-medical staff to handle crisis intervention
12. Plan and discuss to handle financial implications
13. Take help to handle children, explain and educate them as needed
14. Stop counter productivity
15. Be perseverant in the process of acceptance and focus on harmonious reslationships
16. Take support when not able to match expectations
17. Stop over care-giving , possessiveness and pampering that no one else can take care of the patient than you. It is a myth
18. Try to read and understand the information of the disease and understand the patient
19. Build an under current attachment with acceptance and expressed emtions.
20. Handle conflict information subtly and assimilation and stay informed
21. Gain good insight of the disease and stop stigmatizing
22. Need to balance leaves and loss of job in the process of care-giving
23. Maintain organizers to manage forgetfulness in handling multiple priorities
24. Understanding of side effects of medication is very important and this will help to balance the patient's food, routine and sleep requirements.
25. Practice meditation and yoga. Keeping faith and confidence in life.
Bipolar Support Group Chennai is such a great initiative and during its wonderful launch in the City recently, the families and friends who are all care-givers joined together in a hour long discussion which showcased various ways in which the support group can help themselves and each other.
25 Key Take-aways of the inaugural meeting of the Bipolar Support Group Chennai
1. Engage in 'me' time. All participants loved the idea of doing what you like, long forgotten hobbies or interests
2. strengthen your belief in God and not to lose confidence in recovery
3. Encourage spouses to trust in marriage and give a good try to make the marriage sustain and successful.
4. Hope to avoid hatred and feelings to leave and run away from the situations
5. Eat, sleep and exercise properly
6. Rewind good old moments and recall all good work done in the past by the patients.
7. To be responsible for emotional and psychological well being of the family.
8. It is never possible to take full responsibility and to make every one in family to understand the support system
9. Explain the importance of medication by sharing experiences and suggestions
10. Awareness discussion on the disease and to remove the stigma associated to mental illness
11. Take help of doctors or para-medical staff to handle crisis intervention
12. Plan and discuss to handle financial implications
13. Take help to handle children, explain and educate them as needed
14. Stop counter productivity
15. Be perseverant in the process of acceptance and focus on harmonious reslationships
16. Take support when not able to match expectations
17. Stop over care-giving , possessiveness and pampering that no one else can take care of the patient than you. It is a myth
18. Try to read and understand the information of the disease and understand the patient
19. Build an under current attachment with acceptance and expressed emtions.
20. Handle conflict information subtly and assimilation and stay informed
21. Gain good insight of the disease and stop stigmatizing
22. Need to balance leaves and loss of job in the process of care-giving
23. Maintain organizers to manage forgetfulness in handling multiple priorities
24. Understanding of side effects of medication is very important and this will help to balance the patient's food, routine and sleep requirements.
25. Practice meditation and yoga. Keeping faith and confidence in life.
