{"id":10057,"date":"2016-12-28T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=10057"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:03","slug":"carrie-fisher-and-staying-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/carrie-fisher-and-staying-stable\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrie Fisher and Staying Stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What advice do you have for those who are deeply saddened by the people who have left the earth this year? I know it can be tough to have bipolar disorder and hear of so many deaths. How can we mourn someone we cared about and remain stable?<\/p>\n<p>How can we say thank you for all that Carrie Fisher did for people with bipolar disorder and keep ourselves in one piece?<\/p>\n<p>My advice is to set up a specific mourning time that has an end date. Rituals for the death of a loved one can be incredibly helpful. Create a collage. Write a poem. Do a beautiful, loving post about how the person changed your life. Then, and this is hard. Take care of your bipolar disorder. You matter too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fastjulie\" target=\"_blank\">My Julie A. Fast Facebook page has more great support.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What advice do you have for those who are deeply saddened by the people who have left the earth this year? I know it can be tough to have bipolar disorder and hear of so many deaths. How can we mourn someone we cared about and remain stable?<\/p>\n<p>How can we say thank you for all that Carrie Fisher did for people with bipolar disorder and keep ourselves in one piece?<\/p>\n<p>My advice is to set up a specific mourning time that has an end date. Rituals for the death of a loved one can be incredibly helpful. Create a collage. Write a poem. Do a beautiful, loving post about how the person changed your life. Then, and this is hard. Take care of your bipolar disorder. You matter too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fastjulie\" target=\"_blank\">My Julie A. Fast Facebook page has more great support. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/carrie-1-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11103,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10057\/revisions\/11103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}