{"id":606,"date":"2009-02-01T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2009\/02\/01\/bipolar-disorder-and-decisions\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:27","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please make a decision for me!<\/p>\n<p>When I have trouble focusing, I\u2019ve learned to ask others to make decisions for me. I\u2019ve trained the people in my life to just go ahead with what they want to do and I will follow along. What do you want for dinner? I don\u2019t care- you choose. What movie do you want to see? Let me know some choices and I\u2019ll give you my choices.\u00a0 I let others drive, plan parties and do what they want- on the days that I\u2019m having trouble making decisions.<\/p>\n<p>On the days that I\u2019m fine, I make my own decisions- but when the depression and ADHD are here, I say- I don\u2019t care what I do- just help me do something!<\/p>\n<p>It works. I\u2019m also a much more relaxed person around my friends and they appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>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>Please make a decision for me!<\/p>\n<p>When I have trouble focusing, I\u2019ve learned to ask others to make decisions for me. I\u2019ve trained the people in my life to just go ahead with what they want to do and I will follow along. What do you want for dinner? I don\u2019t care- you choose. What movie do you want to see? Let me know some choices and I\u2019ll give you my choices. I let others drive, plan parties and do what they want- on the days that I\u2019m having trouble making decisions.<\/p>\n<p>On the days that I\u2019m fine, I make my own decisions- but when the depression and ADHD are here, I say- I don\u2019t care what I do- just help me do something!<\/p>\n<p>It works. I\u2019m also a much more relaxed person around my friends and they appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p> <!-- 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\/606"}],"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=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12080,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/12080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}