{"id":762,"date":"2011-11-28T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T21:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=762"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:20","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-ocd-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-ocd-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and OCD thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people I know with bipolar disorder have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) symptoms. \u00a0They are normal. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to get OCD thoughts to stop- but I do have a trick.\u00a0 If I\u2019m obsessing about a person and the person\u2019s name is going over and over in my head or something the person said is looping in my head- I just say to myself- \u201cThis will be over soon Julie. This isn\u2019t forever. It\u2019s the bipolar. Learn from this Julie and keep away from the trigger so it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this is easier than fighting and answering the thoughts themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/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>Most people I know with bipolar disorder have OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) symptoms. They are normal. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to get OCD thoughts to stop- but I do have a trick. If I\u2019m obsessing about a person and the person\u2019s name is going over and over in my head or something the person said is looping in my head- I just say to myself- \u201cThis will be over soon Julie. This isn\u2019t forever. It\u2019s the bipolar. Learn from this Julie and keep away from the trigger so it doesn\u2019t happen again.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes this is easier than fighting and answering the thoughts themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p> <!-- 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\/762"}],"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=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11624,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions\/11624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}