{"id":103,"date":"2012-01-26T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/01\/14\/monitor-your-bipolar-disorder-mood-swings\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:19","slug":"monitor-your-bipolar-disorder-mood-swings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/monitor-your-bipolar-disorder-mood-swings\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitor Your Bipolar Disorder Mood Swings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve kept a chart of my mood swings for the past year. It\u2019s amazing to see what triggers most of my downswings. Without question, it\u2019s difficult relationships. I knew that this was a problem, but seeing the reality on a piece of paper forced me to make some serious behavioral changes. I have to limit contact with certain people, no matter how much I care for them. I wish I were the type who could have exciting, but difficult people in my life, but as my chart clearly pointed out. I can\u2019t. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a mood swing chart and an example of one of my charts at the back of my book Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder<\/em>. The Health Cards can provide you a lot of information as well. I faithfully chart my mood every night. It\u2019s depressing to see how this illness controls my life, but I at least know I am doing what I can to stay stable by seeing the reality of what causes many of my mood swings. <\/span><\/span>Interestingly, the chart has shown me that my hypomanic episodes are usually not triggered by anything I do. Truly interesting. <\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Julie <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve kept a chart of my mood swings for the past year. It\u2019s amazing to see what triggers most of my downswings. Without question, it\u2019s difficult relationships. I knew that this was a problem, but seeing the reality on a piece of paper forced me to make some serious behavioral changes. I have to limit contact with certain people, no matter how much I care for them. I wish I were the type who could have exciting, but difficult people in my life, but as my chart clearly pointed out. I can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

There is a mood swing chart and an example of one of my charts at the back of my book Take Charge of Bipolar Disorder. The Health Cards can provide you a lot of information as well. I faithfully chart my mood every night. It\u2019s depressing to see how this illness controls my life, but I at least know I am doing [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/103"}],"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=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11609,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/11609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}