{"id":709,"date":"2009-05-19T20:12:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/julie-fast-video-feeling-intimidated-by-your-bipolar-disorder-doctor\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:19","slug":"julie-fast-video-feeling-intimidated-by-your-bipolar-disorder-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/julie-fast-video-feeling-intimidated-by-your-bipolar-disorder-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Julie Fast Video: Feeling intimidated by your bipolar disorder doctor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I recently did a series of interviews for a large mental health website called healthyplace.com. Here is one of the first videos I recorded. I&#8217;d like to set this up a bit before you watch it. <o><\/o><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">I went through a terrible experience in 1994 when my partner Ivan got very sick and was in the hospital for three months in a manic\/psychotic episode. I was scared, overwhelmed and very confused about what was going on. I never met his doctor when he was in the hospital! The nurses were wonderful, but no one actually explained the illness or why he was so sick. I literally had to do everything on my own. Things have changed a lot of course! I wrote books on this experience myself- so the information is more out there now. <o><\/o><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The video below is a response to the question of what we can do to work successfully without health care professionals when we or someone we care about are in crisis.\u00a0 I want to say that I sound pretty forceful in this video- and I do believe what I say- but I want to also make it clear that the health care professionals in my life are 100% a part of my team. I care about them and respect them deeply! <\/font><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TmGAX9QqEkU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/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>I recently did a series of interviews for a large mental health website called healthyplace.com. Here is one of the first videos I recorded. I&#8217;d like to set this up a bit before you watch it. I went through a terrible experience in 1994 when my partner Ivan got very sick and was in the hospital for three months in a manic\/psychotic episode. I was scared, overwhelmed and very confused about what was going on. I never met his doctor when he was in the hospital! The nurses were wonderful, but no one actually explained the illness or why he was so sick. I literally had to do everything on my own. Things have changed a lot of course! I wrote books on this experience myself- so the information is more out there now. The video below is a response to the question of what we can do to work successfully without health care professionals <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/julie-fast-video-feeling-intimidated-by-your-bipolar-disorder-doctor\/\">[ 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\/709"}],"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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11999,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/11999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}