{"id":10161,"date":"2017-11-03T00:41:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T07:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=10161"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:55:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:55:57","slug":"what-is-it-really-like-to-work-when-you-have-active-bipolar-disorder-psychosis-and-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-is-it-really-like-to-work-when-you-have-active-bipolar-disorder-psychosis-and-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it really like to work when you have active bipolar disorder, psychosis and anxiety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10138 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just sent out a newsletter. Here is what I experienced the entire time I was working:<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">1. Shortness of breath.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 2. Felt like my heart was in my throat- literally- like a lump.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 3. Dizziness<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 4. Worry<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 5. Guilt<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 6. Dread<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 7. Anger that I have to go through this CRAP<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 8. Lack of faith in what I was writing.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 9. A great desire to simply quit what I was doing.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> 10. Zero belief I would reach my goal.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have lived with this my entire life. It is my brain. I have a lot of mental health symptoms that simply show up when I work.<\/p>\n<p>The secret is learning to work THROUGH them.<\/p>\n<p>I sent that darn newsletter and it is beautiful. Who cares that I felt like I was dying while working on the project. I will keep going.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10138 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0259-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just sent out a newsletter. Here is what I experienced the entire time I was working:<\/p>\n<p>1. Shortness of breath. 2. Felt like my heart was in my throat- literally- like a lump. 3. Dizziness 4. Worry 5. Guilt 6. Dread 7. Anger that I have to go through this CRAP 8. Lack of faith in what I was writing. 9. A great desire to simply quit what I was doing. 10. Zero belief I would reach my goal.<\/p>\n<p>I have lived with this my entire life. It is my brain. I have a lot of mental health symptoms that simply show up when I work.<\/p>\n<p>The secret is learning to work THROUGH them.<\/p>\n<p>I sent that darn newsletter and it is beautiful. Who cares that I felt like I was dying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-is-it-really-like-to-work-when-you-have-active-bipolar-disorder-psychosis-and-anxiety\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- 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\/10161"}],"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=10161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10811,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10161\/revisions\/10811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}