{"id":361,"date":"2008-09-03T04:27:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T04:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/09\/03\/well-im-manic-or-at-least-i-was-when-i-wrote-this-a-few-days-ago\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:11","slug":"well-im-manic-or-at-least-i-was-when-i-wrote-this-a-few-days-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/well-im-manic-or-at-least-i-was-when-i-wrote-this-a-few-days-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, I’m manic (or at least I was when I wrote this a few days ago!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

and I’m not happy about it.<\/p>\n

I get euphoric mania.\u00a0 Since I have bipolar II, I technically have hypomania.<\/p>\n

It feels so good. 95% of my bipolar disorder is depression. So mania is like a dream come true- but as with all dreams, you have to wake up.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I am upset because I’m rapid cycling. When I get hypomanic, I think- what if I were like this all of the time? Work is easy- life is easy- I don’t want to overeat- everthing looks beautiful. Why am I tortured with this utopia only to have it taken from me in a few days.<\/p>\n

I spent many years in this confusion before I was diagnosed with bipolar disoder in 1995.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I still have the questions, but I know the answer. I am tortured because I have bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

It’s an illness. I now have to go into treatment mode. I’m hypomanic as I write this- the question is what am I going to do about it?<\/p>\n

\u00a0the answer is below……<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

and I’m not happy about it.<\/p>\n

I get euphoric mania. Since I have bipolar II, I technically have hypomania.<\/p>\n

It feels so good. 95% of my bipolar disorder is depression. So mania is like a dream come true- but as with all dreams, you have to wake up.<\/p>\n

I am upset because I’m rapid cycling. When I get hypomanic, I think- what if I were like this all of the time? Work is easy- life is easy- I don’t want to overeat- everthing looks beautiful. Why am I tortured with this utopia only to have it taken from me in a few days.<\/p>\n

I spent many years in this confusion before I was diagnosed with bipolar disoder in 1995.<\/p>\n

I still have the questions, but I know the answer. I am tortured because I have bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

It’s an illness. I now have to go into treatment mode. I’m hypomanic as I write [ 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\/361"}],"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=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12206,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/12206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}