{"id":171,"date":"2014-06-16T00:22:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T07:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/05\/07\/the-depression-returns\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:57","slug":"breathing-underwater-the-bipolar-depression-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/breathing-underwater-the-bipolar-depression-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathing Underwater. The Bipolar Depression Returns."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"breathing<\/a>I got really sick for three days last week. It was terrible. I thought my\u00a0two month\u00a0stability streak was going to last forever.<\/p>\n

I’m always shocked when the depression comes back full force. It is so nasty and horrible. No one can understand it, unless they have a mood disorder!<\/p>\n

It’s like living underwater with no air- but you don’t die! You just struggle!<\/p>\n

All of us with\u00a0bipolar disorder\u00a0know what it is like.<\/p>\n

The day it started I said to myself, “Oh no. It’s back. But I’m going to get rid of it starting now.”<\/p>\n

It sounds like a cliche, but that is how I have to talk to myself when I get sick.<\/p>\n

In three days it was gone. I’m a lot better today. I woke up and knew I was fine – I knew this because I woke up and didn’t think that getting up was pointless. I just got on with my day. It’s so wonderful to have a normal day!<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

Thanks for the pics from Miss E. They depict what it feels like sometimes! Alive, but underwater!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"breathing<\/a>I got really sick for three days last week. It was terrible. I thought my two month stability streak was going to last forever.<\/p>\n

I’m always shocked when the depression comes back full force. It is so nasty and horrible. No one can understand it, unless they have a mood disorder!<\/p>\n

It’s like living underwater with no air- but you don’t die! You just struggle!<\/p>\n

All of us with bipolar disorder know what it is like.<\/p>\n

The day it started I said to myself, “Oh no. It’s back. But I’m going to get rid of it starting now.”<\/p>\n

It sounds like a cliche, but that is how I have to talk to myself when I get sick.<\/p>\n

In three days it was gone. I’m a lot better today. I woke up and knew I was [ 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\/171"}],"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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}