\nA good friend of mine who has bipolar disorder and I were talking about the ups and downs of bipolar disorder and I said, \u201cUp sort of implies something good and down implies something bad. It\u2019s not like that with bipolar disorder. Mania is just as \u2018bad\u2019 and as dangerous as depression. You\u2019ve been in the hospital with mania and depression- and my mania \u2013 even though it\u2019s euphoric has actually wrecked my life just as much as the depression.\u201c
\nSo, I decided that I need another way to describe the illness that shows how both the up and the down are \u2018bad.\u2019 I came up with over the top and below the norm. Some people have trouble with the word normal- I don\u2019t. I know that I\u2019m not normal when I get depressed or manic! I can compare myself to the millions of people around the world without the illness. When I get manic I go over the top in my emotions, actions and thoughts. \u2018Life is great! I\u2019m a genius! Nothing can hurt me! I am superwoman! I can drive 90 miles an hour!\u2019 When I\u2019m depressed, I am below the norm. \u2018I\u2019m a worthless piece of trash that belongs in the gutter. I want to die so that I don\u2019t feel this pain anymore. I will be like this forever and there is no hope.\u2019 It\u2019s the same dangerous language- it\u2019s just two directions away from normal! This is just my opinion.. or course!
\nJulie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A good friend of mine who has bipolar disorder and I were talking about the ups and downs of bipolar disorder and I said, \u201cUp sort of implies something good and down implies something bad. It\u2019s not like that with bipolar disorder. Mania is just as \u2018bad\u2019 and as dangerous as depression. You\u2019ve been in the hospital with mania and depression- and my mania \u2013 even though it\u2019s euphoric has actually wrecked my life just as much as the depression.\u201c So, I decided that I need another way to describe the illness that shows how both the up and the down are \u2018bad.\u2019 I came up with over the top and below the norm. Some people have trouble with the word normal- I don\u2019t. I know that I\u2019m not normal when I get depressed or manic! I can compare myself to the millions of people around the world without the illness. When I get [ 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\/527"}],"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=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12117,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/12117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}