{"id":1346,"date":"2012-10-27T22:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T05:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/mania-is-selfish\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:19","slug":"mania-is-selfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/mania-is-selfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Mania is selfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6008\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"manic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-400x240.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mania is so hard for a family to deal with\u00a0because\u00a0it&#8217;s so selfish.\u00a0People\u00a0in a manic episode can&#8217;t see\u00a0the needs of others- or even to care about the needs of others.\u00a0\u00a0Awareness just doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>There is also such a lack of insight the person can&#8217;t listen to reason. \u00a0This is why the manic person becomes the center of attention and takes so much family energy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mania makes you think of how the world relates to you and only you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Depression can be very selfish- but it&#8217;s different. Depression can make you whiny, agitated\u00a0and lonely- mania makes you <span style=\"font-size: large;\">noisy<\/span> and <span style=\"font-size: large;\">bossy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar disorder is a tough illness to deal with in any family.\u00a0 I believe that families as a whole need a treatment plan. It has to be a family affair.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6008\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"manic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-150x90.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2-400x240.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/manic2.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Mania is so hard for a family to deal with because it&#8217;s so selfish. People in a manic episode can&#8217;t see the needs of others- or even to care about the needs of others. Awareness just doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>There is also such a lack of insight the person can&#8217;t listen to reason. This is why the manic person becomes the center of attention and takes so much family energy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mania makes you think of how the world relates to you and only you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Depression can be very selfish- but it&#8217;s different. Depression can make you whiny, agitated and lonely- mania makes you noisy and bossy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bipolar disorder is a tough illness to deal with in any family. I believe that families as a whole need a treatment plan. It has to be a family affair.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p><!-- 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\/1346"}],"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=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11449,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/11449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}