{"id":247,"date":"2012-06-16T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/07\/03\/bipolar-driving-and-missing-lamictal\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:23","slug":"bipolar-driving-and-missing-my-lamictal-dose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-driving-and-missing-my-lamictal-dose\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Driving and Missing My Lamictal Dose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5671\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"drive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drive-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a lot of irritation lately. My Lamictal dosage is messed up (my fault) and I can feel it affecting my tolerance level. I swear, I was in so much traffic the other day I thought I would explode. I live in a city, so this was not abnormal. What was abnormal is how I reacted to the traffic: angry words ( I will let you use your imagineation here!)\u00a0 Honking my horn. wow!<\/p>\n<p>I felt my face squeeze into an ugly mask. And then I stopped and realized what was going on. I was rapid cycling and my head was jerking around and I started to cry a bit. I missed a few doses of my meds again and this always happens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution: Take my meds on time!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep out of my car when I\u2019m super irritated! Wait a bit so the traffic can clear. Accept where I am and turn on the radio, etc. Say to myself, \u201cCalm down Julie. You\u2019re overreacting and you really do have a choice how you feel right now.\u201d Remind myself that this is an illness and I\u2019m very \u00a0rarely irritated when I\u2019m not rapid cycling!<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/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\/drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5671\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"drive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/drive-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had a lot of irritation lately. My Lamictal dosage is messed up (my fault) and I can feel it affecting my tolerance level. I swear, I was in so much traffic the other day I thought I would explode. I live in a city, so this was not abnormal. What was abnormal is how I reacted to the traffic: angry words ( I will let you use your imagineation here!) Honking my horn. wow!<\/p>\n<p>I felt my face squeeze into an ugly mask. And then I stopped and realized what was going on. I was rapid cycling and my head was jerking around and I started to cry a bit. I missed a few doses of my meds again and this always happens.<\/p>\n<p>Solution: Take my meds on time!<\/p>\n<p>Keep out of my car when I\u2019m super irritated! Wait a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-driving-and-missing-my-lamictal-dose\/\">[ 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\/247"}],"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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11520,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/11520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}