Whenever I’m having a tough time and it feels like I can’t get things done- I always say, “Buck up Julie!” I just had the thought that I’m not sure if I’m using the term correctly! So I looked it up:<\/p>\n
BUCK UP: to make or become more cheerful, vigorous, etc.:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, that is correct! In my book Get it Done When You’re Depressed<\/em> I say you can Think Like and Athlete and Be Your Own Drill Sergeant. It’s the same thing. We usually have to be the ones to get ourselves out of mild to moderate depression. I believe we can access a part of our brain that isn’t sick and stand up straighter and just get on with our work.<\/p>\n Depression never wants a person to do anything- but I believe that we can buck up in certain lower depression situations and take back our minds. When\u00a0 you open Get it Done, the table of contents reads like a mini boot camp for depression. It helps to read them out loud!<\/p>\n Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whenever I’m having a tough time and it feels like I can’t get things done- I always say, “Buck up Julie!” I just had the thought that I’m not sure if I’m using the term correctly! So I looked it up:<\/p>\n BUCK UP: to make or become more cheerful, vigorous, etc.:<\/p>\n Yes, that is correct! In my book Get it Done When You’re Depressed I say you can Think Like and Athlete and Be Your Own Drill Sergeant. It’s the same thing. We usually have to be the ones to get ourselves out of mild to moderate depression. I believe we can access a part of our brain that isn’t sick and stand up straighter and just get on with our work.<\/p>\n Depression never wants a person to do anything- but I believe that we can buck up in certain lower depression situations and take back our minds. When you open Get it Done, the [ 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\/1090"}],"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=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11915,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/11915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}