{"id":1749,"date":"2013-07-11T00:13:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:14","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-sexual-behavior-that-you-dont-want-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-sexual-behavior-that-you-dont-want-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Sexual Behavior that you don&#8217;t want to happen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7781\" alt=\"sex_mania\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I recently wrote a post on how mania makes you hyper sexual. It&#8217;s normal- and it&#8217;s awful as it can lead to some really big mistakes: pregnancy, affairs, STD&#8217;s. Oh yes, many of us have gone through it all.\u00a0 Here is a comment from Palmer and my reply:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Hi Julie,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I used to have some of this behavior around men and sex, but I thought it was just youthful promiscuity and indiscretion. I hadn\u2019t associated it with having bipolar disorder II, probably because I had only been diagnosed with depression at that point. This prompts a re-evaluation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Hi Palmer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Sexual inhibition is 100% a part of all manias. It can be so hard to recognize as it is so impulsive and feels right in the moment. Many huge sexual mistakes are made when a person is manic. That is why knowing the signs that you&#8217;re getting hyper sexual is essential. For me, it&#8217;s wanting to drink, thinking that men look FANTASTIC! and walking up to strangers in bars. Just lovely! So I work hard to prevent it. I write about it in all of my bipolar books. We can&#8217;t be too hard on ourselves about the past- but we have to do everything possible to make sure it doesn&#8217;t wreck our futures. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Julie<\/span><\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7781\" alt=\"sex_mania\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sex_mania-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I recently wrote a post on how mania makes you hyper sexual. It&#8217;s normal- and it&#8217;s awful as it can lead to some really big mistakes: pregnancy, affairs, STD&#8217;s. Oh yes, many of us have gone through it all. Here is a comment from Palmer and my reply:<\/p>\n<p>Hi Julie,<\/p>\n<p>I used to have some of this behavior around men and sex, but I thought it was just youthful promiscuity and indiscretion. I hadn\u2019t associated it with having bipolar disorder II, probably because I had only been diagnosed with depression at that point. This prompts a re-evaluation<\/p>\n<p>Hi Palmer,<\/p>\n<p>Sexual inhibition is 100% a part of all manias. It can be so hard to recognize as it is so impulsive and feels right in the moment. Many huge sexual mistakes are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-sexual-behavior-that-you-dont-want-to-happen\/\">[ 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\/1749"}],"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=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11358,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/11358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}