{"id":523,"date":"2008-12-05T06:16:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T06:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/12\/05\/really-severe-and-rotten-downswings\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:31","slug":"really-severe-and-rotten-downswings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/really-severe-and-rotten-downswings\/","title":{"rendered":"Really severe and rotten downswings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>wow!\u00a0I took on a job that really kicked my behind. I wrote a book in less than two months. It was not a good idea and I got sick about half way through, but I always finish! Then bipolar tries to finish me! I went into a severe downswing after the book was done. I&#8217;ve often written about how I go down once I finish a project. I&#8217;m used to it- but this time I went down in the middle and at the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0My therapist always reminds me that\u00a0 I have trouble with transitions. Even if the transition is a good one such as finishing a book, I still have trouble. \u00a0 &#8211; all of my friends with bipolar have trouble with transitions- a friend of mine went to her family for Thanksgiving. She said, &#8221;\u00a0Every time I go to Seattle to see my family- it&#8217;s too much for a transition! I just want to go home to my routine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So true. 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>wow! I took on a job that really kicked my behind. I wrote a book in less than two months. It was not a good idea and I got sick about half way through, but I always finish! Then bipolar tries to finish me! I went into a severe downswing after the book was done. I&#8217;ve often written about how I go down once I finish a project. I&#8217;m used to it- but this time I went down in the middle and at the end.<\/p>\n<p> My therapist always reminds me that I have trouble with transitions. Even if the transition is a good one such as finishing a book, I still have trouble. &#8211; all of my friends with bipolar have trouble with transitions- a friend of mine went to her family for Thanksgiving. She said, &#8221; Every time I go to Seattle to see my family- it&#8217;s too much for a transition! I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/really-severe-and-rotten-downswings\/\">[ 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\/523"}],"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=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12121,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/12121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}