{"id":13163,"date":"2020-05-04T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=13163"},"modified":"2020-05-04T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T19:56:40","slug":"notes-from-a-writer-with-bipolar-disorder-and-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/notes-from-a-writer-with-bipolar-disorder-and-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from a Writer with Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13164 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-768x984.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-1199x1536.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-1599x2048.jpg 1599w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-400x512.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-scaled.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want to go back in time when it was easier to finish projects.<\/p>\n<p>I often can\u2019t work if my phone and computer are around. The distraction of 24 hour news and social media is too much for my brain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Will we have a luddite movement one day- come to our office where there are computers and coffee, but no internet!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so distracted when depressed and anxious and it&#8217;s way too easy for me to go see what&#8217;s happening online in the world of people I don&#8217;t even know. It&#8217;s ridiculous and I will always fight this desire to loose myself in front of a screen.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, as I write this, I have the internet turned off on the computer so I at least have to think before looking at social media.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it so easy to look at hundreds of posts and videos instead of working? It&#8217;s avoidance of the pain of working when you don&#8217;t feel well and the result is feeling terrible when I go to bed and when I wake up.<\/p>\n<p>There are goals I want to reach in life &#8211; goals that create a stable future. Social media scrolling will NEVER help me reach those goals.<\/p>\n<p>I will post this once my regular work is done and the internet it back on!<\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em><strong>Julie<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13164 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-800x1024.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-768x984.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-1199x1536.jpg 1199w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-1599x2048.jpg 1599w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-400x512.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/internet-off-gtd-scaled.jpg 1999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I want to go back in time when it was easier to finish projects.<\/p>\n<p>I often can\u2019t work if my phone and computer are around. The distraction of 24 hour news and social media is too much for my brain.<\/p>\n<p>Will we have a luddite movement one day- come to our office where there are computers and coffee, but no internet!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so distracted when depressed and anxious and it&#8217;s way too easy for me to go see what&#8217;s happening online in the world of people I don&#8217;t even know. It&#8217;s ridiculous and I will always fight this desire to loose myself in front of a screen.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, as I write this, I have the internet turned off on the computer so I at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/notes-from-a-writer-with-bipolar-disorder-and-anxiety\/\">[ 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":13164,"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\/13163"}],"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=13163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13163\/revisions\/13166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}