{"id":163,"date":"2013-05-15T00:30:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T07:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/04\/27\/you-can-get-well-enough-to-work\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:15","slug":"you-can-get-well-enough-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/you-can-get-well-enough-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"You CAN Get Well Enough to Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"artwork\"<\/a>After 15 years of daily bipolar disorder management- I’m really seeing the results. I never thought I would get better. I’m going to sound like a broken record on this, but it’s true. You can get better. I can’t give you a time frame, but it can happen.<\/p>\n

By better I mean that I can work part time. It’s interesting that I would measure my success on this level,but I do. I have worked for years on my friendships and they are going well. They are always challenging,but I feel I have the skills to deal with what comes up- especially in terms of my jealousy and paranoia when I get depressed. I have a good relationship with my family. I can see a lot of good things in my life. It’s not perfect of course.\u00a0 People leave me – get upset with me- maybe even grown tired of me! But I can handle it.\u00a0 The big change is that I can sit and work.<\/p>\n

Being\u00a0able to work without getting sick has eluded me\u00a0for many years.\u00a0It happened because I found medications that work well with my management plan.\u00a0 It took a long time to adjust to the side effects- and my life is not perfect- which I very naively thought it would be! But I’m better.<\/p>\n

Believe me, if I’m 49 and am working more efficiently than in many years.<\/p>\n

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

\"artwork\"<\/a>After 15 years of daily bipolar disorder management- I’m really seeing the results. I never thought I would get better. I’m going to sound like a broken record on this, but it’s true. You can get better. I can’t give you a time frame, but it can happen.<\/p>\n

By better I mean that I can work part time. It’s interesting that I would measure my success on this level,but I do. I have worked for years on my friendships and they are going well. They are always challenging,but I feel I have the skills to deal with what comes up- especially in terms of my jealousy and paranoia when I get depressed. I have a good relationship with my family. I can see a lot of good things in my life. It’s [ 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\/163"}],"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=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11381,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/11381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}