{"id":113,"date":"2012-07-19T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T21:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/02\/11\/i-spoke-in-front-of-a-large-crowd%e2%80%a6-and-i-didn%e2%80%99t-get-sick\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:22","slug":"i-spoke-in-front-of-a-large-crowd-and-i-didnt-get-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/i-spoke-in-front-of-a-large-crowd-and-i-didnt-get-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaching a dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u00a0gave a\u00a0talk for a very large crowd this weekend. \u00a0It was such a great experience- and I am very aware that a few years ago it was an experience that would have been too stressful for me to even contemplate.\u00a0 But after years of work, I am now well enough to reach a dream- to help people who are in crisis by talking to them in a live setting.<\/p>\n

I did all that I needed to do to stay well. My trusted business partner Sheri went with me- she helped with all of the set up. My hosts did all of the preparation for the talk. I made sure I got enough sleep the night before-\u00a0 and I had a plan ready for how I would feel after the talk.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0In the past, the<\/span> paranoia would have started as soon as I got off the stage. Yes, that soon! I take care of a lot of this by telling the audience that I will get paranoid- this gives them an idea of what a person with bipolar goes through as well as giving me a reminder that paranoia is normal for me- I don\u2019t have to believe it.<\/p>\n

It also makes everyone laugh.<\/p>\n

Once the speech was done- I followed my own rules and said to myself, \u201cGreat job Julie. I am so proud of you. You did a great job.\u201d and that was that. No second guessing and no self flagellating. This is a huge change for me. I\u2019ve worked hard on it.<\/p>\n

I went to a new location and gave a big presentation without having \u00a0mood swings. all right!<\/p>\n

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

\"\"<\/a>I gave a talk for a very large crowd this weekend. It was such a great experience- and I am very aware that a few years ago it was an experience that would have been too stressful for me to even contemplate. But after years of work, I am now well enough to reach a dream- to help people who are in crisis by talking to them in a live setting.<\/p>\n

I did all that I needed to do to stay well. My trusted business partner Sheri went with me- she helped with all of the set up. My hosts did all of the preparation for the talk. I made sure I got enough sleep the night before- and I had a plan ready for how I would feel after the [ 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\/113"}],"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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11497,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}