{"id":1327,"date":"2010-05-08T19:11:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:15","slug":"some-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/some-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME ADVICE for the Depressed Person  Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something that is very true and can help a lot for those of us with bipolar disorder:<\/p>\n<p><strong>You do not have to feel good about something in order to do it well. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I really believe that we keep ourselves from many projects simply because we expect a mood to be there that will help us along. The facts are that when y0u&#8217;re depressed- the mood is not going to be there. It&#8217;s not going to be there when you are anxious either! So, you just have to dig in your heels and do something anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You will be shocked to see that the outcome is almost always just as good as if\u00a0 you wanted to do the project in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So, never forget- how you feel about doing something is not always the best indication of how something will turn out.\u00a0 Go ahead and do your best no\u00a0 matter what your mood is telling you. That is how you accomplish great things even when your mood is low.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>Here is a podcast on this topic! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/may_8_blog_getitdone_20102.mp3\">may_8_blog_getitdone_2010<\/a><\/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>Here is something that is very true and can help a lot for those of us with bipolar disorder:<\/p>\n<p>You do not have to feel good about something in order to do it well. <\/p>\n<p>I really believe that we keep ourselves from many projects simply because we expect a mood to be there that will help us along. The facts are that when y0u&#8217;re depressed- the mood is not going to be there. It&#8217;s not going to be there when you are anxious either! So, you just have to dig in your heels and do something anyway.<\/p>\n<p>You will be shocked to see that the outcome is almost always just as good as if you wanted to do the project in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So, never forget- how you feel about doing something is not always the best indication of how something will turn out. Go ahead and do your best no matter what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/some-advice\/\">[ 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\/1327"}],"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=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11884,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/11884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}