{"id":2576,"date":"2011-04-10T18:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T18:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:27","slug":"depression-taketh-it-knocks-on-your-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/depression-taketh-it-knocks-on-your-door\/","title":{"rendered":"DEPRESSION TAKETH! It Knocks on Your Door!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2579\" title=\"knocking_at_the_door\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Yikes!!!<\/p>\n<p>From 1995-1998, depression (especially depression with psychosis) took away everything that I loved \u2013 everything- my health, my relationships with friends and loved ones, my ability to work.<\/p>\n<p>It still tries to do this today, but now it only gets a small section of my life instead of years. I hate depression so much that even a few hours of depression are too much for me now.<\/p>\n<p>When I get depressed, I go into fight mode and I simply don\u2019t stop working on it until the depression is gone. (I use the tips in my book \u2018Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed\u2019 daily.)<\/p>\n<p>Depression doesn\u2019t even get one minute of my life without a huge fight. At first it took months to get better, then weeks then days \u2013 now I can get better in one day if I really work hard.<\/p>\n<p>My bipolar disorder is always around, but I have changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0There is no room for depression in my life and I make that very clear to the big monster when it knocks on my door.<\/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\/knocking_at_the_door1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2579\" title=\"knocking_at_the_door\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/knocking_at_the_door1.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Yikes!!!<\/p>\n<p>From 1995-1998, depression (especially depression with psychosis) took away everything that I loved \u2013 everything- my health, my relationships with friends and loved ones, my ability to work.<\/p>\n<p>It still tries to do this today, but now it only gets a small section of my life instead of years. I hate depression so much that even a few hours of depression are too much for me now.<\/p>\n<p>When I get depressed, I go into fight mode and I simply don\u2019t stop working on it until the depression is gone. (I use the tips in my book \u2018Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed\u2019 daily.)<\/p>\n<p>Depression doesn\u2019t even get one minute of my life without a huge fight. At first it took months to get better, then weeks then days \u2013 now I can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/depression-taketh-it-knocks-on-your-door\/\">[ 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\/2576"}],"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=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11720,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/11720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}