{"id":492,"date":"2011-12-08T12:42:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:20","slug":"bipolar-social-anxiety-and-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-social-anxiety-and-the-dallas-cowboys-cheerleaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Social Anxiety and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I once watched a reality show on becoming a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader when I was at the gym. I had a political interview show on my IPOD, but this was far more intriguing ! First of all, it was a pretty weak premise for a show – as watching cheerleader tryouts probably brings back a lot of bad memories for those of us who were not fond of high school! But there was something very interesting on the show. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The women had to climb up a really high pole and jump off onto a trapeze bar. Yes, that was one of the tasks.\u00a0 There was one candidate who was very scared of heights. She cried the whole way up the pole. But I had to admire her. She got up there, stood up and jumped off. It was pretty safe as she had on a harness, but I could see it was one of the hardest things she had ever done. I admired that. <\/span><\/span>I haven\u2019t forgotten her bravery. I have a lot of social anxiety around certain situations. I\u2019ve found that some give me severe OCD anxiety symptoms if I let them go too far. It’s hard to keep going in these situations – you either do something dumb like running away- or saying something embarrassing, or drinking too much\u00a0or just being silent!\u00a0 Next time you can think of the cheerleader – if she can do it. We can do it! Julie <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I once watched a reality show on becoming a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader when I was at the gym. I had a political interview show on my IPOD, but this was far more intriguing ! First of all, it was a pretty weak premise for a show – as watching cheerleader tryouts probably brings back a lot of bad memories for those of us who were not fond of high school! But there was something very interesting on the show. <\/p>\n

The women had to climb up a really high pole and jump off onto a trapeze bar. Yes, that was one of the tasks. There was one candidate who was very scared of heights. She cried the whole way up the pole. But I had to admire her. She got [ 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\/492"}],"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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11620,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/11620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}