One Bipolar Drama After Another!<\/p>\n
I used to have a lot of drama in my life. Much of it was due to my own choices, some of it was due to bipolar disorder causing me to make stupid choices, such as when I get manic.<\/p>\n
I have changed completely in the past few years. I\u2019m no longer willing to make decisions and then just hope they turn out ok.<\/p>\n
I get too sick when I do this. I have goals in life that I want to reach- speaking to large groups on mental health, reducing the suicide rate in this country, financial stability, physical health, a great romantic relationship- big stuff for sure!<\/p>\n
The only way I can accomplish my goals is to examine every potential decision for disaster (drama!) from sending an angry email to saying yes to a request when I definitely need to say no. I\u2019ve learned to ask myself the following questions:<\/p>\n
– Will it make me sick?
\n– Has it made me sick in the past?
\n– Am I manic?
\n– Is depression clouding my judgment?
\n– How will my decision make me feel tomorrow, next week and into the future?<\/p>\n
I also have a lot of people in my life who will ask the questions for me and really make me mad! But I need their judgment in case I\u2019m making a decision when I\u2019m sick.<\/p>\n
I got well enough to really examine my life by using my Health Cards Treatment Plan- I kept seeing the same mistakes over and over again. When you see them in writing it really helps you make changes! <\/p>\n
This is still a constant exercise- I\u2019ve learned to slow down a bit. I\u2019m at over 75% success right now in my decision making. Considering that I used to do everything blindly, this is pretty good!<\/p>\n
I have almost no drama in my life these days.<\/p>\n
Julie
\nPS: If you look to the upper right of this blog- you will see a graphic with a CD and my books. This link takes you to the Health Cards page to read more about the system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One Bipolar Drama After Another!<\/p>\n
I used to have a lot of drama in my life. Much of it was due to my own choices, some of it was due to bipolar disorder causing me to make stupid choices, such as when I get manic.<\/p>\n
I have changed completely in the past few years. I\u2019m no longer willing to make decisions and then just hope they turn out ok.<\/p>\n
I get too sick when I do this. I have goals in life that I want to reach- speaking to large groups on mental health, reducing the suicide rate in this country, financial stability, physical health, a great romantic relationship- big stuff for sure!<\/p>\n
The only way I can accomplish my goals is to examine every potential decision for disaster (drama!) from sending an angry email to saying yes to a request when I definitely need to say no. I\u2019ve learned to ask myself the following [ 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\/708"}],"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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12010,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/12010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}