{"id":335,"date":"2014-06-24T00:57:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T07:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/08\/20\/a-great-question-from-maries-comments-on-mania\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:56","slug":"a-great-question-from-maries-comments-on-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/a-great-question-from-maries-comments-on-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"A great question from Marie&#8217;s comments on mania&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-aware.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"283\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8124\" alt=\"self aware\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-aware.bmp\" \/><\/a>Marie just left a comment on a mania post. It was very insightful and helpful.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; she asked this question- it REALLY made me think. She said&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>I would like to have one really good healthy day in which I did not question myself! How about you?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At first, my answer was- oh yes! Just one day this week! Then I had another thought- it&#8217;s rather esoteric.<br \/>\nThis illness stinks. It has been terrible for me this week and it may be terrible today- luckily I woke up pretty stable- but overall, I am a different person because of this illness.<\/p>\n<p>I have to manage bipolar disorder 24 hours a day in order to stay stable. I watch what I say, do and really try to counteract what I think when I&#8217;m sick. This makes me a better friend, partner, daughter, student, teacher, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We have to be more aware when we have bipolar disorder &#8211; which means we can be more aware of the people around us. Most people aren&#8217;t like this. They are just living life (lucky!) &#8211; but we have to examine our lives continually in order to stay well. We might as well make the most of it.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p>**<\/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\/self-aware.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"283\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8124\" alt=\"self aware\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/self-aware.bmp\" \/><\/a>Marie just left a comment on a mania post. It was very insightful and helpful.<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; she asked this question- it REALLY made me think. She said&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I would like to have one really good healthy day in which I did not question myself! How about you?<\/p>\n<p>At first, my answer was- oh yes! Just one day this week! Then I had another thought- it&#8217;s rather esoteric. This illness stinks. It has been terrible for me this week and it may be terrible today- luckily I woke up pretty stable- but overall, I am a different person because of this illness.<\/p>\n<p>I have to manage bipolar disorder 24 hours a day in order to stay stable. I watch what I say, do and really try to counteract what I think when I&#8217;m sick. This makes me a better friend, partner, daughter, student, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/a-great-question-from-maries-comments-on-mania\/\">[ 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\/335"}],"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=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}