{"id":699,"date":"2009-04-23T17:11:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-depression-it-is-unfair\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:21","slug":"bipolar-depression-it-is-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-depression-it-is-unfair\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar depression: it IS unfair!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I struggle with the word ‘unfair.’\u00a0 Some of my friends suggest that I shouldn’t use the word as it’s pointless to all this illness unfair. Other say- oh yes Julie- use the word unfair because it is unfair that people with bipolar disorder and those who love us have to struggle so much!<\/p>\n

I am going to use the word UNFAIR today! I was fine for three days. Normal- with normal thoughts and behaviors. Then I woke up with IT. Nothing changed in the past few days- but IT is here. Ok. I can hear what my brain is saying- what is the point of work? It’s just a bunch of writing and email and getting nowhere!<\/p>\n

What is the point of anything really- you’re not very happy and your life is pretty boring.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I could go on! I am sure you can add plenty to this list.<\/p>\n

I can’t and won’t listen. It’s an illness. So I’m doing my ‘pointless’ email and writing my ‘pointless’ books – and I have to know and believe that of course it’s not pointless. It wasn’t pointless yesterday- and will probably be fine tomorrow. My goal today is to just keep going until it goes away! It’s an illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I struggle with the word ‘unfair.’ Some of my friends suggest that I shouldn’t use the word as it’s pointless to all this illness unfair. Other say- oh yes Julie- use the word unfair because it is unfair that people with bipolar disorder and those who love us have to struggle so much!<\/p>\n

I am going to use the word UNFAIR today! I was fine for three days. Normal- with normal thoughts and behaviors. Then I woke up with IT. Nothing changed in the past few days- but IT is here. Ok. I can hear what my brain is saying- what is the point of work? It’s just a bunch of writing and email and getting nowhere!<\/p>\n

What is the point of anything really- you’re not very happy and your life is pretty boring.<\/p>\n

I could go on! I am sure you can add plenty to this list.<\/p>\n

I can’t and won’t listen. It’s [ 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\/699"}],"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=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12014,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/12014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}