{"id":620,"date":"2009-02-07T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T17:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2009\/02\/07\/bipolar-disorder-and-crisis-situations\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:26","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-crisis-situations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-crisis-situations\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and crisis situations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions to ask yourself when you\u2019re not doing well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>How do I get past this?<\/p>\n<p>How do I get through this?<\/p>\n<p>How do I stop this mood swing?<\/p>\n<p>How do I learn to live with this?<\/p>\n<p>Who can help me with this?<\/p>\n<p>How do I make my future different from this?<\/p>\n<p>What can I do right this minute to feel better?<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re in the middle of being ill- i.e in a mood swing that is causing you pain- or causing pain to others! it\u2019s always a good idea to methodically ask yourself questions in order to focus your brain.\u00a0 I ask myself the above questions when I\u2019m depressed and I force myself to answer them positively. If I\u2019ve had a relationship problem that is eating away at me and affecting my sleep, I can ask myself- OK Julie, how do you get past this? It\u2019s three in the morning. What do you need to do right now to change your thoughts so that this is not controlling your life?\u201d I often come up with realistic and helpful suggestions for myself when I ask the right questions.<\/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>Questions to ask yourself when you\u2019re not doing well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>How do I get past this?<\/p>\n<p>How do I get through this?<\/p>\n<p>How do I stop this mood swing?<\/p>\n<p>How do I learn to live with this?<\/p>\n<p>Who can help me with this?<\/p>\n<p>How do I make my future different from this?<\/p>\n<p>What can I do right this minute to feel better?<\/p>\n<p>When you\u2019re in the middle of being ill- i.e in a mood swing that is causing you pain- or causing pain to others! it\u2019s always a good idea to methodically ask yourself questions in order to focus your brain. I ask myself the above questions when I\u2019m depressed and I force myself to answer them positively. If I\u2019ve had a relationship problem that is eating away at me and affecting my sleep, I can ask myself- OK Julie, how do you get past this? It\u2019s three in the morning. What do you need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-crisis-situations\/\">[ 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\/620"}],"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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}