{"id":292,"date":"2012-08-18T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/07\/23\/bipolar-disorder-treatment-my-brain-is-lying-to-me\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:21","slug":"bipolar-disorder-depression-treatment-my-brain-is-lying-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-depression-treatment-my-brain-is-lying-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Depression Treatment: My brain is lying to me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My Bipolar Brain is Lying to Me!<\/strong><\/p>\n

All right bipolar brain! I’ve had enough! Shut up!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is what I had to say to myself today when my brain would not leave me alone.\u00a0 I sat outside at a cafe to get work done today.\u00a0 The weather was great, my hands which often give me trouble were not bothering me and I was actually getting work done.\u00a0 But every time a couple walked by I had the thought- you will never be happy like them Julie. Or if I saw a baby- I had the thought- you’ll never have the experience of having a baby. I felt like my life was wasting away and that others were having so much more fun than I was.<\/p>\n

This is the bipolar trap and luckily I know enough to eventually recognize what it is and then tell my brain to.. shut up. It’s a harsh way to do it, but when this happens I have to snap myself out of it. Here are the facts outside of bipolar disorder:<\/p>\n

– I am currently single because it’s the absolute right choice for me. It’s a conscious decision. I’ve been in relationships for the majority of my adult life and I doubt a year without one will kill me. Of course I prefer a loving relationship as most people do, but now is not the time. Crazy brain.<\/p>\n

– I have never wanted a child nor do I want one now!\u00a0 It’s ridiculous what my brain says! My nephew is the light of my life and that is enough for me! What on earth is my brain thinking? I don’t even want to take care of a puppy!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

– There is no way everyone is happier than I am. Please! There are 100,000 + people where I live.<\/p>\n

– In an hour I’m going to meet friends to see\u00a0 a movie and then have a bbq. Why does my brain completely disregard this information?<\/p>\n

Bipolar disorder lies to me. It lies all of the time. If I listen to it, as I did for many, many years, I will be miserable.<\/p>\n

Saying I’ve had enough! and SHUT UP! to my brain and writing this got me out of the episode.<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

PS: When I read this,\u00a0 it’s actually quite funny what the brain comes up with. It’s hard when I’m in it- but funny when I think of how totally dumb it is.<\/p>\n

PSS: In case you were wondering, that is not me in the picture.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>My Bipolar Brain is Lying to Me!<\/p>\n

All right bipolar brain! I’ve had enough! Shut up!<\/p>\n

This is what I had to say to myself today when my brain would not leave me alone. I sat outside at a cafe to get work done today. The weather was great, my hands which often give me trouble were not bothering me and I was actually getting work done. But every time a couple walked by I had the thought- you will never be happy like them Julie. Or if I saw a baby- I had the thought- you’ll never have the experience of having a baby. I felt like my life was wasting away and that others were having so much more fun than I was.<\/p>\n

This is the bipolar trap and luckily I know enough to eventually recognize what it is and [ 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\/292"}],"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=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11487,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}