{"id":646,"date":"2009-03-04T03:39:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2009\/03\/04\/bipolar-disorder-and-rapid-cycling-after-something-great-happens\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:24","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-rapid-cycling-after-something-great-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-rapid-cycling-after-something-great-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Rapid Cycling after something great happens!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too Many Mood Swings to Count in Just 24 Hours!<\/p>\n<p>I turned in a large, important and wonderful project on Sunday night. It\u2019s now Tuesday. The project is a proposal for my new book. This is a big undertaking, so I know I have to be extra careful about my health.<br \/>\nI was careful! Early to bed early to rise! No late nights- decided to put a hold on a daily phone call I often have with a very stressed and negative friend, etc. I am really working hard to stay stable.<\/p>\n<p>This certainly helped me finish the proposal. I was so elated to have it done! Real pleasure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then I went up.. .and down.. and up.. then WAY down and finally back up. That was just on Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened all day yesterday. Finally, but 11 that night, I was worn out, but up again. I took an Ativan and then another half. That is about my limit unless I want to be really tired the next day. But at 2AM, I realized I was not going to sleep at all, so I took another half. My body doesn\u2019t like that. I got to sleep,\u00a0 but am very tired today- even after a nap! It\u2019s a drug thing!<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the facts of bipolar are much stronger than my wish for what will happen. Getting the proposal in was such an accomplishment- but my brain only saw it with stress and say congratulations with rapid cycling?<br \/>\nHave you ever had more than five mood swings a day! What do <em>you<\/em> do?<\/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>Too Many Mood Swings to Count in Just 24 Hours!<\/p>\n<p>I turned in a large, important and wonderful project on Sunday night. It\u2019s now Tuesday. The project is a proposal for my new book. This is a big undertaking, so I know I have to be extra careful about my health. I was careful! Early to bed early to rise! No late nights- decided to put a hold on a daily phone call I often have with a very stressed and negative friend, etc. I am really working hard to stay stable.<\/p>\n<p>This certainly helped me finish the proposal. I was so elated to have it done! Real pleasure. <\/p>\n<p>Then I went up.. .and down.. and up.. then WAY down and finally back up. That was just on Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened all day yesterday. Finally, but 11 that night, I was worn out, but up again. I took an Ativan and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-rapid-cycling-after-something-great-happens\/\">[ 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\/646"}],"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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12051,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/12051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}