{"id":2273,"date":"2011-02-09T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:28","slug":"can-you-work-when-you-are-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/can-you-work-when-you-are-depressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you work when you are depressed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes! Absolutely! Always! It’s hard but I can do it!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That is what you will normally<\/a> hear me say and it’s true. I can work when I’m depressed. My\u00a0\u00a0 problem is that I don’t want to work when I’m stable.\u00a0 How often are you stable? It’s a new world to\u00a0\u00a0me that I rarely get to visit, but I have noticed many things about this world.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0– \u00a0People like to just sit around and do things- watch TV, go to a movie, have coffee with friends, knit, mess around in the garage, fish, take a walk, relax in a bath, listen to music, go on a road trip. ETC.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Those things are all so hard for me due to mood swings.\u00a0 I’ve had five days of stability recently. No mania and a bit of depression only. And I don’t feel like doing anything! Is that what it’s like for those who just want to live life and be happy? Is my drive for success, change, creation and survivial only a byproduct of my depression?<\/p>\n

Interesting question.<\/p>\n

I’m adding a chapter on medications to my book Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder. My coauthor John and I are working on it this month and the new editon of the book will come out in 2012 (yes, that is crazy!). I work much better when I’m down. So right now that I feel normal, I am going to make myself work as though I were down. There is a dichotomy!<\/p>\n

How about you? Is there a particular mood where you are more productive? Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> Yes! Absolutely! Always! It’s hard but I can do it!<\/p>\n

That is what you will normally<\/a> hear me say and it’s true. I can work when I’m depressed. My problem is that I don’t want to work when I’m stable. How often are you stable? It’s a new world to me that I rarely get to visit, but I have noticed many things about this world.<\/p>\n

– People like to just sit around and do things- watch TV, go to a movie, have coffee with friends, knit, mess around in the garage, fish, take a walk, relax in a bath, listen to music, go on a road trip. ETC.<\/p>\n

Those things are all so hard for me due to mood swings. I’ve had five days of stability recently. [ 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\/2273"}],"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=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11742,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/11742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}