{"id":133,"date":"2013-04-11T00:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T07:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/03\/24\/don%e2%80%99t-act-on-negative-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:16","slug":"dont-act-on-negative-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/dont-act-on-negative-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Act on Negative Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Negative thoughts are a normal part of depression- this means that you\u2019ll have them no matter what you really think about a situation. I know I used to!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0I was a negative @$#%. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You can fill that in with any word you like. <\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing was ever good enough. <\/span><\/p>\n

When I lived in Japan for three years- I complained for three years- I just can\u2019t believe that people put up with me! It was awful- and now I feel I wasted so much time there with my anger and irritation. <\/span><\/p>\n

In hindsight,\u00a0 most of this was due to untreated bipolar disorder. I still have some of the thoughts now- I still want to kick things and yell at people \u2013 but I just don\u2019t do it. It\u2019s a struggle- especially with email as it\u2019s so easy to complain on email. <\/span><\/p>\n

But I don\u2019t do it! I truly try to step back and think before I do something stupid.<\/span>
\n\u00a0The thoughts are still there- my brain still races all night when I feel someone has done me wrong- or when I feel I\u2019ve been treated unfairly- but it\u2019s often just bipolar talking. I can listen, but I don\u2019t have to act on the thoughts. This saves relationships and saves me a lot of stress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Julie<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Negative thoughts are a normal part of depression- this means that you\u2019ll have them no matter what you really think about a situation. I know I used to!<\/p>\n

I was a negative @$#%. <\/p>\n

You can fill that in with any word you like. <\/p>\n

Nothing was ever good enough. <\/p>\n

When I lived in Japan for three years- I complained for three years- I just can\u2019t believe that people put up with me! It was awful- and now I feel I wasted so much time there with my anger and irritation. <\/p>\n

In hindsight, most of this was due to untreated bipolar disorder. I still have some of the thoughts now- I still want to kick things and yell at people \u2013 but I just don\u2019t do it. It\u2019s a [ Read More ]<\/a><\/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\/133"}],"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=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}