{"id":1554,"date":"2012-10-02T16:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T23:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:20","slug":"do-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/do-half\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/50s-dishwasher4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5975\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"50's dishwasher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/50s-dishwasher4-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>When things are tough, almost everything you have to do can seem impossible- especially the daily stuff like cleaning your house, making dinner, mowing the lawn, making work calls, etc, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned something-\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have to do all of something-\u00a0 I can vacuum half of the house, unload half of the dishwasher, cut half of the roses in my yard, make one call instead of all the calls&#8230;\u00a0 (You can then go back and do the rest later.)<\/p>\n<p>The problem with bipolar is that it makes us think in all or nothing terms &#8211; I must clean the whole house and if I don&#8217;t I&#8217;m a failure. Hmm, actually, there is nothing that says you can&#8217;t do half.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better than doing nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<dl><\/dl>\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\/50s-dishwasher4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5975\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"50's dishwasher\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/50s-dishwasher4-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>When things are tough, almost everything you have to do can seem impossible- especially the daily stuff like cleaning your house, making dinner, mowing the lawn, making work calls, etc, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I have learned something- I don&#8217;t have to do all of something- I can vacuum half of the house, unload half of the dishwasher, cut half of the roses in my yard, make one call instead of all the calls&#8230; (You can then go back and do the rest later.)<\/p>\n<p>The problem with bipolar is that it makes us think in all or nothing terms &#8211; I must clean the whole house and if I don&#8217;t I&#8217;m a failure. Hmm, actually, there is nothing that says you can&#8217;t do half.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s better than doing nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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\/1554"}],"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=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11465,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions\/11465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}