{"id":417,"date":"2008-09-26T17:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T17:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/09\/26\/unfocused-nami-oregon-conference\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:02:08","slug":"unfocused-nami-oregon-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/unfocused-nami-oregon-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfocused: NAMI Oregon Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m speaking at the NAMI Oregon yearly conference tomorrow. I have a class in the morning and then will speak at the luncheon.\u00a0 The most difficult\u00a0part of all of this is getting my books, post cards order sheets and travel stuff. I worry that I won&#8217;t be able to sleep and that I will get overstimulated. Yada, yada, yada. If I let my mind go no this way, I will go bonkers.<\/p>\n<p>It makes a lot more sense to actually load my car ahead of time and print out what I need. That way I can get to bed early and be ready for the drive. This is not a bipolar thing- it&#8217;s a normal speaking thing. It becomes a bipolar thing if I don&#8217;t take care of myself now. So I&#8217;m going to!\u00a0 It&#8217;s human nature that we often worry more than we actually do things. It will only take me a few hours to get ready. I have already spent a few hours this morning worrying about getting ready. That is just dumb!<\/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&#8217;m speaking at the NAMI Oregon yearly conference tomorrow. I have a class in the morning and then will speak at the luncheon. The most difficult part of all of this is getting my books, post cards order sheets and travel stuff. I worry that I won&#8217;t be able to sleep and that I will get overstimulated. Yada, yada, yada. If I let my mind go no this way, I will go bonkers.<\/p>\n<p>It makes a lot more sense to actually load my car ahead of time and print out what I need. That way I can get to bed early and be ready for the drive. This is not a bipolar thing- it&#8217;s a normal speaking thing. It becomes a bipolar thing if I don&#8217;t take care of myself now. So I&#8217;m going to! It&#8217;s human nature that we often worry more than we actually do things. It will only take me a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/unfocused-nami-oregon-conference\/\">[ 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\/417"}],"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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12183,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/12183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}