{"id":1502,"date":"2010-08-16T20:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:12","slug":"manic-depression-rapid-cycling-what-can-one-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/manic-depression-rapid-cycling-what-can-one-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Manic Depression rapid cycling: What can one do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manic depression is such an old term. I like to use it once in awhile. It&#8217;s certainly descripitve! Now, on with the blog!<\/p>\n<p>I ask myself this question a lot- so I will ask it to you. What can you do if your bipolar simply won&#8217;t stop affecting your life? I know that I do every single thing I write about in my books and have changed my life 100%. And yet there is still a problem. Bipolar disorder can be managed, but it doesn&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n<p>This sucks- pardon my French.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer struggle with the &#8216;why me&#8217; of having this illness. What I struggle with is working so hard every minute of the day and still being sick off and on. I do know that I would be in and out of the hospital without my plan. And I know I would not be able to do the work I love so much and have friends and family all around me who want to support my wellness.\u00a0 I would not be able to travel and write books and&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>But it sure does take a lot of time to manage the constant mood swings. I am not going to stop trying- but I am going to continually search for what I can do to move to the next step. I use the Health Cards and my other book ideas all day and every day- they have given me a great life in many ways.\u00a0 I now ask myself what I can do next.\u00a0 I&#8217;m thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>And you? 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>Manic depression is such an old term. I like to use it once in awhile. It&#8217;s certainly descripitve! Now, on with the blog!<\/p>\n<p>I ask myself this question a lot- so I will ask it to you. What can you do if your bipolar simply won&#8217;t stop affecting your life? I know that I do every single thing I write about in my books and have changed my life 100%. And yet there is still a problem. Bipolar disorder can be managed, but it doesn&#8217;t go away.<\/p>\n<p>This sucks- pardon my French.<\/p>\n<p>I no longer struggle with the &#8216;why me&#8217; of having this illness. What I struggle with is working so hard every minute of the day and still being sick off and on. I do know that I would be in and out of the hospital without my plan. And I know I would not be able to do the work I love so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/manic-depression-rapid-cycling-what-can-one-do\/\">[ 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\/1502"}],"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=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11850,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/11850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}