{"id":13303,"date":"2020-09-06T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T01:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=13303"},"modified":"2020-09-06T18:06:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T01:06:48","slug":"just-diagnosed-with-bipolar-disorder-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/just-diagnosed-with-bipolar-disorder-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Instagram account where I focus on bipolar basics. You can find me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/juliefast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JulieFast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a recent post:<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Just diagnosed with bipolar? I remember every moment of my diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>What has it been like for you?<\/p>\n<p>Read over my strategies and let me know if they address what you\u2019re going through.<\/p>\n<p>The bipolar diagnosis saved my life. There is NO way I would still be here if I didn\u2019t finally get diagnosed, but that doesn\u2019t mean it has been easy!!<\/p>\n<p>Life is messy. You can be thankful for the diagnosis, hate it and want to forget it&#8230; all while getting help. 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You can find me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/juliefast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JulieFast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a recent post:<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Just diagnosed with bipolar? I remember every moment of my diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>What has it been like for you?<\/p>\n<p>Read over my strategies and let me know if they address what you\u2019re going through.<\/p>\n<p>The bipolar diagnosis saved my life. There is NO way I would still be here if I didn\u2019t finally get diagnosed, but that doesn\u2019t mean it has been easy!!<\/p>\n<p>Life is messy. You can be thankful for the diagnosis, hate it and want to forget it&#8230; all while getting help. Let yourself be complex!<\/p>\n<p> Julie <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/353141F6-A4D1-48C8-9C09-DF84C6714742-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/353141F6-A4D1-48C8-9C09-DF84C6714742-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/353141F6-A4D1-48C8-9C09-DF84C6714742-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/353141F6-A4D1-48C8-9C09-DF84C6714742-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/353141F6-A4D1-48C8-9C09-DF84C6714742-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/353141F6-A4D1-48C8-9C09-DF84C6714742-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/353141F6-A4D1-48C8-9C09-DF84C6714742.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20EB4563-BEBC-4490-8ADA-58AB808E3F47-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20EB4563-BEBC-4490-8ADA-58AB808E3F47-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20EB4563-BEBC-4490-8ADA-58AB808E3F47-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20EB4563-BEBC-4490-8ADA-58AB808E3F47-150x150.png 150w, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/just-diagnosed-with-bipolar-disorder-4\/\">[ 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":13309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303"}],"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=13303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13312,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13303\/revisions\/13312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}