{"id":1736,"date":"2010-11-16T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:08","slug":"mania-and-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/mania-and-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Mania and Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mania tells you that you can do anything, go anywhere, be anyone and that nothing bad will ever happen!<\/p>\n

Here is a great story from a reader:\u00a0 This is how she handles her mania. She goes to Walmart with no money- credit cards etc, and then looks at the sales. She tries stuff on, gets stuff for the house and walks around the store as much as she wants. She compares prices and thinks of all the stuff she wants because she is hypomanic.\u00a0 And then, she pushes the cart to the side and walks out the door.<\/p>\n

In laughed so hard when I heard this! No, it’s not fair to Walmart- but they will survive. It’s so much better than someone getting manic and buying all of that stuff and then having to return it. So both sides win out- in a twisted way.<\/p>\n

It’s true that it’s often the shopping that mania wants you to do- not necessarily the buying. If your mania is mild and you can keep it to acting like you’re shopping and then walking away, that is a great tool.<\/p>\n

I am not sure who sent me this story- so if you’re out there, let me know and I’ll give you credit!<\/p>\n

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

\"\"<\/a>Mania tells you that you can do anything, go anywhere, be anyone and that nothing bad will ever happen!<\/p>\n

Here is a great story from a reader: This is how she handles her mania. She goes to Walmart with no money- credit cards etc, and then looks at the sales. She tries stuff on, gets stuff for the house and walks around the store as much as she wants. She compares prices and thinks of all the stuff she wants because she is hypomanic. And then, she pushes the cart to the side and walks out the door.<\/p>\n

In laughed so hard when I heard this! No, it’s not fair to Walmart- but they will survive. It’s so much better than someone getting manic and buying all of that stuff and then having to return it. So both sides win out- in a [ 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\/1736"}],"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=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11788,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions\/11788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}