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Life with bipolar disorder is up and down. When I am down, I know what to do. When I am up, I know what to do. My goal is to stay in the middle. Last night, I got some really exciting news about work. It was around 9:30 PM. I immediately went up. I didn’t want to.<\/p>\n
I wanted to just take in the information and go to sleep.<\/p>\n
Bipolar doesn’t allow this. I had an instant cascade of ideas. I wanted to get started on the project immediately.<\/p>\n
I was not #<\/span>manic<\/span><\/span><\/a> when I heard the news. Within a few minutes, I started to get manic. This may seem impossible to those who are not familiar with my type of rapid cycling bipolar, but I really am this sensitive in both directions. I live on a balance board. I need to think about bipolar every minute of the day.<\/p>\n What did I do to calm down?<\/p>\n I immediately took my lithium orotate. I then took my sleep meds and added an extra dose of one of the meds. I forced myself to close my computer. I got in my room, turned off the lights and listened to a calming podcast. I did manage to sleep. These meds make me fat and hungry.<\/p>\n It’s not fair. Nothing about this is fair.<\/p>\n This morning I woke up in an down swing. I had the thought, ‘What is the point of work anyway? Why get excited about something that has no meaning?”<\/p>\n Bipolar is BS. That is the truth.<\/p>\n My goal today is to stay in the middle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Life with bipolar disorder is up and down. When I am down, I know what to do. When I am up, I know what to do. My goal is to stay in the middle. Last night, I got some really exciting news about work. It was around 9:30 PM. I immediately went up. I didn’t want to.<\/p>\n I wanted to just take in the information and go to sleep.<\/p>\n Bipolar doesn’t allow this. I had an instant cascade of ideas. I wanted to get started on the project immediately.<\/p>\n I was not #manic<\/a> when I heard the news. Within a few minutes, I started to get manic. This may seem impossible to those who are not familiar with my type of rapid cycling bipolar, but I really am this [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406"}],"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=12406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12408,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12406\/revisions\/12408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Julie\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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