{"id":544,"date":"2008-12-17T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/12\/17\/get-it-done-when-you%e2%80%99re-depressed-do-your-bills-with-a-friend%e2%80%a6\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:30","slug":"get-it-done-when-youre-depressed-do-your-bills-with-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/get-it-done-when-youre-depressed-do-your-bills-with-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed: Do your bills with a friend\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">It can be really overwhelming to pay bills when you\u2019re not doing well. I swear, so many of my ideas in Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed have to do with the little things- cleaning a house, making lunches for kids, finishing a project, paying bills, exercising, getting out of bed when you\u2019re in a bipolar down swing! It&#8217;s easy for these things to get lost in a depression fog! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">One of the most popular tips in the book is to work with a friend. I regularly go to a coffee shop with friends and we simply work together. We talk when we first sit down and then we work. I can do email, write my books, or do my paperwork. I often bring a big pile of letters, bills etc in a bag and just go through them one by one. I bring large clips so that I can organize them as I work and put them in a small file if needed. I am literally 100% more productive when I do my bills with a friend sitting there! It\u2019s odd, but it works! <o :p><\/o><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'\">Julie <o :p><\/o><\/span><\/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 style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\">It can be really overwhelming to pay bills when you\u2019re not doing well. I swear, so many of my ideas in Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed have to do with the little things- cleaning a house, making lunches for kids, finishing a project, paying bills, exercising, getting out of bed when you\u2019re in a bipolar down swing! It&#8217;s easy for these things to get lost in a depression fog! <\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular tips in the book is to work with a friend. I regularly go to a coffee shop with friends and we simply work together. We talk when we first sit down and then we work. I can do email, write my books, or do my paperwork. I often bring a big pile of letters, bills etc in a bag and just go through them one by one. I bring large clips so that I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/get-it-done-when-youre-depressed-do-your-bills-with-a-friend\/\">[ 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\/544"}],"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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12114,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/12114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}