{"id":13015,"date":"2020-01-27T17:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=13015"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T03:20:39","slug":"how-you-can-help-a-person-with-bipolar-depression-%f0%9f%92%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/how-you-can-help-a-person-with-bipolar-depression-%f0%9f%92%99\/","title":{"rendered":"How You Can Help a Person with Bipolar Depression 💙"},"content":{"rendered":"
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😿<\/span><\/span><\/span> I lived with dangerous suicidal depression from age 19. I had ECT in my mid 40s. I was very sick. I use all of the ideas in my books to stay alive and remain stable enough to work and have relationships. I taught the people around me to help.<\/span><\/div>\n
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✍️<\/span><\/span><\/span> 📘<\/span><\/span><\/span> Here is a bit of my story and what led to my writing Get it Done When You’re Depressed, a book that teaches you how to help a loved one or client who is depressed how to get out of bed and out of the house to get on with life… even when the depression is strong.<\/span><\/div>\n
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🌧<\/span><\/span><\/span> In 1997, I realized that if I didn\u2019t teach myself to get out and do things when I was depressed, I would spend the rest of my life in bed. I remember standing on a street in Seattle and being so sick I didn\u2019t even know what direction to walk. I told myself, \u201cI\u2019m going to walk no matter what. It\u2019s not going to feel good. My mind will tell me I went in the wrong direction. I don\u2019t care. Starting today. I control my brain.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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🌈<\/span><\/span><\/span> I practiced this for a few years until it became the habit I have today. Everything in my life changed. I was still depressed, but I was able to work and be social again.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A person can train the brain to get things done when depressed. Ultimately I know this helped me get better overall. I now control my suicidal depression with meds and lifestyle choices. It’s not easy, but it is possible.<\/span><\/div>\n
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✍️<\/span><\/span><\/span>📘<\/span><\/span><\/span>💙<\/span><\/span><\/span> Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed<\/a> will change your life. It tells the story of what I did the first years after I made the decision to live with depression and not die from it. It teaches you how to use the ideas to help a loved one. It gives specific strategies that you use. It’s NOT based on therapy. Talk therapy doesn’t work for very well for bipolar depression. Talking about being depressed is not a treatment. Behavior change is far more effective. (Therapists who understand bipolar and focus on recognizing the signs of depression and then taking action to end the depression can be very effective.)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Get it Done is action oriented and action changes our brain.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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I use the ideas in this book ever day to deal with attention and focus, anxiety, depression when it shows up and any other obstacle that gets in my way. I need more time than other people. I need to be nice to myself and I need to back off if I do too much, but I would rather regulate my behavior than be stuck in my bed with depression. I hated that life.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You can help a loved one end the hold depression has on the brains and help the person make decisions and take action.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Depression is not permanent.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a> 😿 I lived with dangerous suicidal depression from age 19. I had ECT in my mid 40s. I was very sick. I use all of the ideas in my books to stay alive and remain stable enough to work and have relationships. I taught the people around me to help. ✍️ 📘 Here is a bit of my story and what led to my writing Get it Done When You’re Depressed, a book that teaches you how to help a loved one or client who is depressed how to get out of bed and out of the house to get on with life… even when the depression is strong. 🌧 In 1997, I realized that if I didn\u2019t teach myself to get out and do things when I was [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2464],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015"}],"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=13015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13017,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13015\/revisions\/13017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}