{"id":261,"date":"2008-07-08T02:12:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T02:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/07\/08\/bipolar-disorder-struggles\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:15","slug":"bipolar-disorder-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not doing too well today. I haven\u2019t been doing well for a few days actually! A few days ago I had catatonic depression. My mother came over and helped me clean my room. That helped a lot!  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was up and down. I decided to go to a movie last night so that I didn\u2019t have to hear my depressed thoughts. That helped a lot! <\/p>\n<p>Today I am fighting IT again. But it won\u2019t win! It never does. <\/p>\n<p>Bipolar depression is a scary thing, but I remind myself all day long- It\u2019s an illness. <\/p>\n<p>Today is a tough day in terms of work. I have an article due for BP Magazine and it\u2019s a struggle. I just remind myself of what my books say. I don\u2019t have to feel like doing something in order to GET IT DONE! <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 7PM. I am going to finish my article and get to bed early. As always, my plan is to go to bed feeling better than when I woke up. I will accomplish that tonight! <\/p>\n<p>Bipolar disorder is an illness. You probably see yourself in what I write- because we share an illness. <\/p>\n<p>I want this to go away forever- but it just hangs around sometimes! It\u2019s an illness. <\/p>\n<p>You will be able to read my magazine article in the fall. Because I&#8217;m going to finish it right now&#8230;. <\/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>I\u2019m not doing too well today. I haven\u2019t been doing well for a few days actually! A few days ago I had catatonic depression. My mother came over and helped me clean my room. That helped a lot! <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was up and down. I decided to go to a movie last night so that I didn\u2019t have to hear my depressed thoughts. That helped a lot! <\/p>\n<p>Today I am fighting IT again. But it won\u2019t win! It never does. <\/p>\n<p>Bipolar depression is a scary thing, but I remind myself all day long- It\u2019s an illness. <\/p>\n<p>Today is a tough day in terms of work. I have an article due for BP Magazine and it\u2019s a struggle. I just remind myself of what my books say. I don\u2019t have to feel like doing something in order to GET IT DONE! <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 7PM. I am going to finish my article and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-struggles\/\">[ 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\/261"}],"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=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12249,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/12249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}