{"id":56,"date":"2012-03-25T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2007\/09\/13\/having-a-clear-mind-is-the-goal-of-bipolar-disorder-treatment\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:17","slug":"having-a-clear-mind-is-the-goal-of-bipolar-disorder-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/having-a-clear-mind-is-the-goal-of-bipolar-disorder-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a clear mind is the goal of bipolar disorder treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My Mind Is Blank (at least for a few days!)<\/p>\n

I never thought that I would see the day when I actually would have a blank mind. Sometimes I have to even think about what to think about. I’ve never really had this happen in my life. When you have bipolar disorder, your mind is usually filled with a bunch of garbage. Talking, music, other noises, unwanted thoughts; it’s like one big garbage dump. I know that sounds pretty harsh, but it’s definitely how I’ve experienced many days in the past few years.<\/p>\n

Having a clear mind is the goal of bipolar disorder treatment.<\/p>\n

Everything that I do, everything that I choose, everything that I say it\u2019s all with the intention of having a clear mind. The interesting thing is that if I do get into situations that I know are triggers, my mind garbage starts back up and all the stuff starts to whirl around in my head again. I’ve gotten so sensitive to triggers that I can tell almost immediately if something is a bad situation for me.<\/p>\n

For example, an ex\u00a0recently called and we kept missing each other on the phone. This is someone whom I of course wanted to see, but knew that it probably wasn’t the best thing to do. Part of my mind said, It’ s okay, you’re doing better, don’t worry about it. But the other part of my mind started to get worried, obsessive, talkative, and just plain uncomfortable. I had to make a choice between the two. I like to think that for the rest of my life I will choose the one that’s reasonable: the one that doesn’t cause bipolar disorder symptoms. I decided not to meet this old friend.<\/p>\n

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

\"\"<\/a>My Mind Is Blank (at least for a few days!)<\/p>\n

I never thought that I would see the day when I actually would have a blank mind. Sometimes I have to even think about what to think about. I’ve never really had this happen in my life. When you have bipolar disorder, your mind is usually filled with a bunch of garbage. Talking, music, other noises, unwanted thoughts; it’s like one big garbage dump. I know that sounds pretty harsh, but it’s definitely how I’ve experienced many days in the past few years.<\/p>\n

Having a clear mind is the goal of bipolar disorder treatment.<\/p>\n

Everything that I do, everything that I choose, everything that I say it\u2019s all with the intention of having a clear mind. [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/56"}],"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=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11579,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/11579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}