BLESSED WITH BIPOLAR
                                         
                                                                 
              I wrote "Blessed with Bipolar"to let you know that the disorder is not a death
    sentence.

            I was 40 years-old. I had been hospitalized seven times for bipolar. I had lost too
    many jobs to count and I had recently been expelled from St. Thomas University School of
    Law - one day after the Dean learned that I have bipolar disorder. Acting as my own
    attorney, I sued the school. I came to believe that the lawsuit was my last chance to have a
    life. Four years later, I lost. I was out of work, out of money, unmarried, and had $40,000
    in school loan debt. It was then that I realized how richly God has Blessed me with
    Bipolar.

             God will bless you in the best and the worst of it. In fact, when you harness the
    symptoms, you can use bipolar to actually help you to succeed. In spite of bipolar (and
    with the help of it) I have grown in my Christian faith, earned football scholarships,
    completed a masters degree in psychology (while locked on a psych ward), run a marathon,
    and earned a scholarship to Law School. And I have more peace, joy, and love in my life
    than I ever could have imagined. You can make it, too!
                                                      - Richard Jarzynka
                       Chapter Excerpts
                                Amazing Extremes  God Likes the Crazy    The Tort   
                                Table of Contents        Press Release   

    Blessed with Bipolar is published by Xulon Press, a part of Salem Communications Corporation. Xulon is the world's largest
    Christian publisher, with more than 5,000 titles published to date.   

         "When we feel like we want God to be closer to us, it may be that He is standing right there, but we have put up a wall between
us and Him. We tear down that wall when we give God praise.
     "Sometimes, it may feel like God is not loving you. Please know that He is - even when it may not feel that way. Loving is what he
does. Always.
     "There have been times when I have felt that God is not helping with bipolar. I have learned that in those times I must praise Him
still. Because He is still God. Still worthy. And I know that in All things - even bipolar - God works for good. (Romans 8:28) To God things
like bipolar can be used to bless me. To make me more like Christ. He has blessed me greatly in bipolar. Even in the times when it hurt -
and hurt bad. I could not always see the blessings until later. But it changed my life when I realized that He really is working for my
absolute best, in all things. If I can remember that when I am suffering, then, somehow, the suffering is altered.  God is in it with me.
And, though the suffering may not cease completely, if God is with me in it, then it cannot stay the same.  It must come under His
control and be used for my good. That, at the very least, makes it bearable. His grace is, indeed, sufficient for me." (2Corinthians 12:9)
                                                                                                            -Richard Jarzynka, 1 bipolar type