{"id":747,"date":"2010-09-15T19:29:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T19:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=747"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:00:10","slug":"we-can-all-get-better-and-better-no-matter-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/we-can-all-get-better-and-better-no-matter-what\/","title":{"rendered":"We can all get better and better no matter what….."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always known that it has always taken really big changes for me to stay well enough to work. Here are some of the changes I have made in the past few years.<\/p>\n

– Celibacy (yes, celibacy!)
\n– Less travel
\n– No contentious relationships
\n– Avoid work situations that will make me sick
\n– Using my Health Cards daily
\n– Visualizing my strategies from Get it Done When You’re Depressed
\n– Watch inspirational reality TV instead of downer TV<\/p>\n

I could write a lot more here! By the way, the celibacy thing is just a choice and not something people with bipolar disorder have to do to stay stable! Haha. But my goodness, it has helped. Especially when I get hypomanic and just want to drink beer and meet people. <\/p>\n

My problem is that the bipolar has not being doing well. This means that I work every day to stay stable and sometimes the bipolar is stronger than the work I do all day to stay stable! But I keep going and always will. It’s a tough illness. <\/p>\n

Regarding reality TV, I love to watch So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars- they show me that it really is all about hard work on a daily basis. If a bull rider, football player, an actor who has never danced and the star from the Jackass movies can learn to dance, I can use the same skills to get better. I feel my brain switch back into a more positive and hopeful mood when I watch these shows. It is up to me to make it happen when I have a goal. <\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n

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If bull rider Ty Murray can learn to dance... anything is possible! <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always known that it has always taken really big changes for me to stay well enough to work. Here are some of the changes I have made in the past few years.<\/p>\n

– Celibacy (yes, celibacy!) – Less travel – No contentious relationships – Avoid work situations that will make me sick – Using my Health Cards daily – Visualizing my strategies from Get it Done When You’re Depressed – Watch inspirational reality TV instead of downer TV<\/p>\n

I could write a lot more here! By the way, the celibacy thing is just a choice and not something people with bipolar disorder have to do to stay stable! Haha. But my goodness, it has helped. Especially when I get hypomanic and just want to drink beer and meet people. <\/p>\n

My problem is that the bipolar has not being doing well. This means that I work every day to stay stable and sometimes the [ 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\/747"}],"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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11821,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/11821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}