I receive a lot of email asking how I manage this illness. I always tell them it’s the\u00a0 Health Cards (my treatment plan) and that’s true. Medications help as well- but my main technique is being able to remind myself over and over again when I’m super ill- that it’s an illness.<\/p>\n
Depression is so physical- it can literally feel like it’s in every cell of our body- and maybe it is.\u00a0 But then so is diabetes or MS or any other chronic illness. I’ve learned what bipolar really feels like as compared to the real me- and when I get depressed, as I was for most of the day- I spend all day getting better.<\/p>\n
I have a plan in place to do this- but it’s still incredibly hard. I am writing this to send out support to anyone who is depressed and reading this blog. Thousands of people come here each month- we have the same symptoms- and our family members have the same worries about us- because it’s an illness. We can get better.<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I receive a lot of email asking how I manage this illness. I always tell them it’s the Health Cards (my treatment plan) and that’s true. Medications help as well- but my main technique is being able to remind myself over and over again when I’m super ill- that it’s an illness.<\/p>\n
Depression is so physical- it can literally feel like it’s in every cell of our body- and maybe it is. But then so is diabetes or MS or any other chronic illness. I’ve learned what bipolar really feels like as compared to the real me- and when I get depressed, as I was for most of the day- I spend all day getting better.<\/p>\n
I have a plan in place to do this- but it’s still incredibly hard. I am writing this to send out support to anyone who is depressed and reading this blog. Thousands of people come here each month- we [ 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\/500"}],"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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12140,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/12140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}