This post actually follows a thread I started about four\u00a0entries ago….\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Surviving a Terrible Down Swing<\/p>\n
I got very hypomanic yesterday. I wrote about it earlier and wrote a newsletter about it.\u00a0 Of course, it\u2019s very easy to write when you\u2019re hypomanic. But when it was going on, I could tell it was going to spin out of control. I managed to stay well enough not to do something stupid.<\/p>\n
The problem is what I\u2019m going through now. I woke up in a terrible downswing. Just terrible. Crying with suicidal thoughts. Just awful. I feel sorry for myself!\u00a0 Then my good friend Karen had to cancel our evening plans. I always feel better when I go out with Karen, so this was a blow. I just cried and cried. The tears come so easily when you\u2019re suicidal. I started talking myself out of this downswing. I thought of what I said in Get it Done When You\u2019re Depressed and then took action.<\/p>\n
I called my dear friend John and asked him to meet me for happy hour. He was available. He\u2019s compassionate, but very realistic when I get sick. I\u2019ve taught him to remind me it\u2019s an illness. I can\u2019t wallow in the depression.<\/p>\n
I called my friend Sherri who has Bipolar I. She\u2019s not doing well today either. So I reminded her IT\u2019S BIPOLAR. We have to remember that. I saw her the day before and we weren\u2019t depressed. It\u2019s an illness. It\u2019s a mood swing and not real.<\/p>\n
And then I called my mom and said, \u201cLet\u2019s go to a movie.\u201d I will be happy to spend time with my mom.
\nAction is what matters when you\u2019re super depressed. Action takes care of the depression if only for a few hours- and during those few hours you can do more things to make you feel better.<\/p>\n
I am feeling better- it took about 10 hours. I always want to go to bed feeling better than when I woke up.<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n
PS: I did feel a lot better by the time I went to bed. It’s so important to have friends you can call. I started over with friends when I moved to Portland, Oregon in 2002- and now have many. It was hard work to become a good friend! If you click on the relationship tab on the right under subjects, I talk more about making friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This post actually follows a thread I started about four entries ago…. <\/p>\n
Surviving a Terrible Down Swing<\/p>\n
I got very hypomanic yesterday. I wrote about it earlier and wrote a newsletter about it. Of course, it\u2019s very easy to write when you\u2019re hypomanic. But when it was going on, I could tell it was going to spin out of control. I managed to stay well enough not to do something stupid.<\/p>\n
The problem is what I\u2019m going through now. I woke up in a terrible downswing. Just terrible. Crying with suicidal thoughts. Just awful. I feel sorry for myself! Then my good friend Karen had to cancel our evening plans. I always feel better when I go out with Karen, so this was a blow. I just cried and cried. The tears come so easily when you\u2019re suicidal. I started talking myself out of this downswing. I thought of what I said in Get [ Read More ]<\/a><\/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\/666"}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12036,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/12036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}