{"id":522,"date":"2008-12-03T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/12\/03\/bipolar-depression-once-again\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:31","slug":"bipolar-depression-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-depression-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Depression&#8230; once again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had a tough time lately- can you identify with that! Ha. ha. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an optimist when I&#8217;m depressed no matter how sick I get- because in the back of my mind I just have to know it&#8217;s an illness. It distorts things so much it&#8217;s better just to focus on getting things done. So that is what I&#8217;m doing today. I&#8217;m helping a friend write a book on public speaking. I got one of his chapters today and here is the opening quote: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.&#8221;<br \/>\nWinston Churchill<\/p>\n<p>Churchill had a lot of depression, as did Lincoln- and look what they accomplished by moving forward even when the depression just wants you to move backwards and focus on that was bad in the past. <\/p>\n<p>So, today I&#8217;m moving forward and using the tips in my books- Get it Done When You&#8217;re Depressed helps the most on days like these. I have to be my own drill sargeant! Feel the depression and do it anyway! And praise myself all day just to name a few. <\/p>\n<p>I hope this encourages you that you can do the same. <\/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 have had a tough time lately- can you identify with that! Ha. ha. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m an optimist when I&#8217;m depressed no matter how sick I get- because in the back of my mind I just have to know it&#8217;s an illness. It distorts things so much it&#8217;s better just to focus on getting things done. So that is what I&#8217;m doing today. I&#8217;m helping a friend write a book on public speaking. I got one of his chapters today and here is the opening quote: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.&#8221; Winston Churchill<\/p>\n<p>Churchill had a lot of depression, as did Lincoln- and look what they accomplished by moving forward even when the depression just wants you to move backwards and focus on that was bad in the past. <\/p>\n<p>So, today I&#8217;m moving forward and using the tips in my books- Get it Done When You&#8217;re Depressed helps the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-depression-once-again\/\">[ 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\/522"}],"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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12122,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/12122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}