{"id":10197,"date":"2017-03-22T13:49:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T20:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=10197"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:02","slug":"10197-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/10197-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Will Not Lie in Bed When I’m Depressed. I will help others and feel better!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If helping others helps depression, what is something you can do from the depths of depression to help someone in need?<\/p>\n

– You don’t have to feel good about helping someone.
\n– You don’t have to be motivated.
\n– You don’t have to have energy at all.<\/p>\n

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Pick one thing, do it and report back about doing it. That is all I am asking for today’s research.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be nice to myself. I got in bed again and binged on a British police procedural. This is my go to depression behavior on the rough days. But I stopped after 30 minutes as really- watching murder mysteries is not a good depression management technique. HEHE.<\/p>\n

I’m not depressed like I used to be- my original depression lasted off and on from age 19 until 48. That is not a typo.<\/p>\n

I am MUCH better now, but I still get triggered. My Kickstarter set off a series of mood swings. Nothing new for me, but still awful to go through.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, when I get sick I run through what I write in my books- “Julie, what would Get it Done Say right now?” and I picture my own strategies.<\/p>\n

So, I did something to feel better. I wrote my Bp Magazine blog for family members to know the signs we are sick. It comes out tomorrow. I will share it below when it’s posted.<\/p>\n

I got myself into my office! I’m still depressed. I feel like crying. I want to isolate. But I won’t.<\/p>\n

You can move forward when the bipolar is raging. Just know you aren’t going to feel good at first.<\/p>\n

That comes later.<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 <\/p>\n

If helping others helps depression, what is something you can do from the depths of depression to help someone in need?<\/p>\n

– You don’t have to feel good about helping someone. – You don’t have to be motivated. – You don’t have to have energy at all.<\/p>\n

Pick one thing, do it and report back about doing it. That is all I am asking for today’s research.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be nice to myself. I got in bed again and binged on a British police procedural. This is my go to depression behavior on the rough days. But I stopped after 30 minutes as really- watching murder mysteries is not a good depression management technique. HEHE.<\/p>\n

I’m not depressed like I used to be- my original depression lasted off [ Read More ]<\/a><\/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\/10197"}],"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=10197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11087,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions\/11087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}