{"id":2081,"date":"2010-12-29T15:08:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T15:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:06","slug":"how-do-you-make-a-bad-situation-into-a-good-situation-when-bipolar-takes-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/how-do-you-make-a-bad-situation-into-a-good-situation-when-bipolar-takes-over\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you make a bad situation into a good situation when bipolar takes over?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Julie powers all of New York with her bipolar tears! <\/p><\/div>\n

These are the signs I’m in a situation that’s bad for my bipolar:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Trouble sleeping. I actually always have trouble sleeping, but in these situations\u00a0I can’t sleep at all without sleep meds.<\/p>\n

2. Crying and crying and crying. The waterfall I wrote about before.\u00a0 Crying a river.\u00a0 My eyes are all red today from crying all day yesterday. It’s not that I want to cry- and it’s not that the situation even warrants that much crying- it’s just what my depression does in stressful situations.<\/p>\n

3. Feel hopeless and trapped. My brain starts to say terrible things about my past and my future and then I feel I have to get out of my present situation and just run away. I used to do that!<\/p>\n

I’m in Michigan visiting my dad. The trip has been tough in many ways. I knew yesterday that making decisions during a waterfall session is not a good idea- so I very smartly called my therapist Robin. Her advice was so hard to do, but I did it and the issue is resolved.\u00a0 She said, “Be honest with your family. There is no other way. I think they will understand. If you want to leave early, then leave early. But not until you discuss things.\u00a0 You can’t assume things are as you see them. Depression really clouds your reality.”<\/p>\n

It’s incredibly hard for me to tell people that my bipolar is taking over and I have to take care of the bipolar before I can do anything else. But if I don’t deal with the problem that is triggering the bipolar, there really is no way out!<\/p>\n

I’m telling you today. There is a way out by telling people how you feel, listening to their responses and then working on a plan together. Of course it’s not always possible, but you always\u00a0must\u00a0try. Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Julie powers all of New York with her bipolar tears! <\/p>\n

These are the signs I’m in a situation that’s bad for my bipolar:<\/p>\n

1. Trouble sleeping. I actually always have trouble sleeping, but in these situations I can’t sleep at all without sleep meds.<\/p>\n

2. Crying and crying and crying. The waterfall I wrote about before. Crying a river. My eyes are all red today from crying all day yesterday. It’s not that I want to cry- and it’s not that the situation even warrants that much crying- it’s just what my depression does in stressful situations.<\/p>\n

3. Feel hopeless and trapped. My brain starts to say terrible things about my past and my future and then I feel I have to get out of my present situation and just run away. I used to do that!<\/p>\n

I’m in Michigan visiting [ 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\/2081"}],"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=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11764,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}