{"id":126,"date":"2012-12-08T15:07:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T23:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/03\/08\/hope-if-you%e2%80%99re-in-a-severe-depression\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:18","slug":"hope-if-youre-in-a-severe-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/hope-if-youre-in-a-severe-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope &#8211; If You\u2019re in a Severe Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5857\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"tough\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hope<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I just thought I would write and say that I know how you feel if you\u2019re in a severe depression. I go there often. There is hope- every day when you wake up, get out of bed and say to yourself-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0I have bipolar disorder, this is why I\u2019m depressed. It\u2019s an illness. I can treat this illness successfully. I will not let depression ruin my life. I will keep going. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I did this last week and I got out of bed. I drove to my friends and\u00a0 had some fun. I knew I had to get out and do things. The depression lasted three days. I felt like it would\u00a0never get better, but it did.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Depression is a reality of bipolar disorder. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Keep going and do all that you have to do to get better- if this means going into the hospital then do it- if it means changing medications, then do it. Just do something no matter how depressed you feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">I am thinking about you. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Julie<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5857\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"tough\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tough.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hope<\/p>\n<p>I just thought I would write and say that I know how you feel if you\u2019re in a severe depression. I go there often. There is hope- every day when you wake up, get out of bed and say to yourself-<\/p>\n<p> I have bipolar disorder, this is why I\u2019m depressed. It\u2019s an illness. I can treat this illness successfully. I will not let depression ruin my life. I will keep going. <\/p>\n<p>I did this last week and I got out of bed. I drove to my friends and had some fun. I knew I had to get out and do things. The depression lasted three days. I felt like it would never get better, but it did. <\/p>\n<p>Depression is a reality of bipolar disorder. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/hope-if-youre-in-a-severe-depression\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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\/126"}],"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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11425,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/11425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}