{"id":392,"date":"2008-09-14T14:26:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/09\/14\/hello-from-the-dbsa-conference-virginia\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:09","slug":"hello-from-the-dbsa-conference-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/hello-from-the-dbsa-conference-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello from the DBSA Conference: Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello All! The computers were packed at my hotel, so this is my first time for a blog.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I&#8217;m at the Depression, Bipolar Support Alliance in Norfolk, Virginia. It has been wonderful and very interesting &#8211; as well as stressful and sleep challenging!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here is some funny stuff: I have my seminar on family wellness on Friday. It went really, really well according to the crowd- there were about 150 people. When I got my evaluations, they were very positive. My first thought was:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0These are all fake! They are lying. No one can tell me the truth as they like me. This is quite funny, and it was funny at the time, but paranoia is not fun!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I&#8217;m very used to paranoia. It&#8217;s hard to fight, but easy to recognize when you know the signs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had trouble sleeping, even thought I took my own advice and switched over time zones. I went to be at 2:00 last night which puts me on\u00a0 Portland time. I mention this a lot as a fun conference &#8211; with a lot of excellent conversation and my fun presentations is a recipe for disaster if I don&#8217;t get enough sleep!<\/p>\n<p>I will write more tomorrow. I have so many stories and pictures. There was one woman who told a very funny joke- I have to find her to give her credit. Here is the joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0I go to DBSA support meetings and we discuss our meds and we&#8217;ve all determined that we all get fat from Krispy Kreme donuts!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0heehee. So, it&#8217;s not the Zyprexa!<\/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>Hello All! The computers were packed at my hotel, so this is my first time for a blog.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m at the Depression, Bipolar Support Alliance in Norfolk, Virginia. It has been wonderful and very interesting &#8211; as well as stressful and sleep challenging!<\/p>\n<p> Here is some funny stuff: I have my seminar on family wellness on Friday. It went really, really well according to the crowd- there were about 150 people. When I got my evaluations, they were very positive. My first thought was:<\/p>\n<p> These are all fake! They are lying. No one can tell me the truth as they like me. This is quite funny, and it was funny at the time, but paranoia is not fun!<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m very used to paranoia. It&#8217;s hard to fight, but easy to recognize when you know the signs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had trouble sleeping, even thought I took my own advice and switched over time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/hello-from-the-dbsa-conference-virginia\/\">[ 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\/392"}],"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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12196,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/12196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}