{"id":539,"date":"2012-03-23T10:50:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:17","slug":"get-comfortable-with-uncomfortable-bipolar-disorder-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/get-comfortable-with-uncomfortable-bipolar-disorder-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Get comfortable with uncomfortable bipolar disorder thoughts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>OMG. My brain says the most ridiculous things- things I would NEVER say on my own. It creates relationships that aren’t there- goes over conversations that never happened and then makes me feel like it’s all true. It has taken me years to realize that I can deny these thoughts- yell at these thoughts and beg them to go away- sometimes this works, sometimes is doesn’t.\u00a0 It’s very hard to live with a constant conversation in your head.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I’ve worked on this for 13 years, so I guess it’s a never ending battle! It’s defintely better. The most important thing is that I don’t act out on these thoughts like I used to. This has saved my relationships- especially with the new people that come into my life. Watching my triggers diligently has made the biggest difference. I feel like a monk though. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>These days I’m learning to just let these thoughts roam around in my head and laugh at them when I can. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Haha. My brain just said WHAT?\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Julie<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>OMG. My brain says the most ridiculous things- things I would NEVER say on my own. It creates relationships that aren’t there- goes over conversations that never happened and then makes me feel like it’s all true. It has taken me years to realize that I can deny these thoughts- yell at these thoughts and beg them to go away- sometimes this works, sometimes is doesn’t. It’s very hard to live with a constant conversation in your head. <\/p>\n

I’ve worked on this for 13 years, so I guess it’s a never ending battle! It’s defintely better. The most important thing is that I don’t act out on these thoughts like I used to. This has saved my relationships- especially with the new people that [ 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\/539"}],"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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11585,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/11585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}