{"id":10639,"date":"2017-10-02T12:15:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=10639"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:55:58","slug":"ask-julie-fast-how-do-you-remain-organize-and-focus-in-your-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/ask-julie-fast-how-do-you-remain-organize-and-focus-in-your-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Julie Fast: How do you remain organized and focused in your thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new way to focus my attention! \u00a0I am trying to focus on just one sporting event when faced with a gazillion TVs in a sports bar. HEHE.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

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ANSWER: \u00a0\u00a0I don’t remain organized and focused in my thinking. It’s a daily and sometimes hourly struggle for me to focus. I have to get help in order to get my work done.<\/p>\n

I’m\u00a0extremely<\/em> <\/strong>unfocused- it’s pathological and is a struggle very single day. My manager Vy is a life savor. She makes charts that I work hard to follow. I cannot write books without help.<\/p>\n

I’m getting worse as I get older and there is no question that my head injury from 2012 doesn’t help. This is not meant to be depressing. It is simply my reality. When I’m stable, I just deal with it. When I’m depressed, it’s my #1 worry. How are we supposed to work and support ourselves when our bipolar brains give us so much trouble? ARG!!!!<\/p>\n

I CAN say that I truly use the tips in Get it Done When You’re Depressed<\/a>. I use them every single day and they help me focus as best I can. So, I do have moments of focus and organization, but it’s hard work and I use everything I write about in my books. Get it Done saves me. It was written for depression, but it works for ADD\/ADHD symptoms just as well. Anxiety is also a big reason for focus problems. Sometimes it hurts to work. I was much more able to work in the past. My goal these days is getting as much work done as possible when I’m stable so that I have a buffer on the tough days. I wish I could tell you that I focus just fine and that I have a secret so that you can end your focus problems. I have not found this yet. For now, it’s management. I am still here, still writing and still getting things done, so something is working. \u00a0You can do it as well!<\/p>\n

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I have a theory. I believe that many of us with bipolar disorder are innately restless. It is an issue that affects our work and relationships. Here is my blog for Bp Magazine: \u00a0Life with Bipolar: Why Am I So Restless? on the topic.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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A new way to focus my attention! I am trying to focus on just one sporting event when faced with a gazillion TVs in a sports bar. HEHE. <\/p>\n

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ANSWER: I don’t remain organized and focused in my thinking. It’s a daily and sometimes hourly struggle for me to focus. I have to get help in order to get my work done.<\/p>\n

I’m extremely unfocused- it’s pathological and is a struggle very single day. My manager Vy is a life savor. She makes charts that I work hard to follow. I cannot write books without help.<\/p>\n

I’m getting worse as I get older and there is no question that my head injury from 2012 doesn’t help. This is not meant to be depressing. It is simply my reality. When I’m stable, I just deal [ 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\/10639"}],"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=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}