{"id":769,"date":"2009-06-03T04:57:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T04:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-the-economy-a-great-reader-comment\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:18","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-the-economy-a-great-reader-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-the-economy-a-great-reader-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar disorder and the economy: A great reader comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a comment from J. on my blog about the economic climate in this country- it&#8217;s a good one! <\/p>\n<p>thank u for this. I needed some cheering up. financially we are at out wits&#8217; end. I function only due to my meds. without them i&#8217;d be dead now. bipolar is no joke, and having financial problems on top of it&#8230;well, it&#8217;s hard to stay sane. I CAN choose to enjoy as much of my life THIS MOMENT as I can, no matter what is going on around me. so I try. I fight depression. my meds keep me from mania which is good or we&#8217;d be in worse trouble. I thank god I still have left things to be thankful for RIGHT NOW. tomorrow will be dealt with tomorrow. that&#8217;s how I cope with money problems I can&#8217;t fix. one day at a time. if I live in the present I can cope better with bipolar too. thanks for this blog and newsletter things u put out. it helps. u know what we live with. take care. <\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Wow, thanks to Jen for putting into words what a lot of us feel. WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS- it&#8217;s just money- it&#8217;s just politics- it&#8217;s just change. I struggle with my worries- and then realized the situation doesn&#8217;t change if I worry, it changes if I work at change. I sound like Obama! Those of us with bipolar disorder do experience things more strongly than others- we get sick and stressed enough as it is- when you add the economy to this, things are tough. It will pass. <\/p>\n<p>I will not let it get me down- 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>Here is a comment from J. on my blog about the economic climate in this country- it&#8217;s a good one! <\/p>\n<p>thank u for this. I needed some cheering up. financially we are at out wits&#8217; end. I function only due to my meds. without them i&#8217;d be dead now. bipolar is no joke, and having financial problems on top of it&#8230;well, it&#8217;s hard to stay sane. I CAN choose to enjoy as much of my life THIS MOMENT as I can, no matter what is going on around me. so I try. I fight depression. my meds keep me from mania which is good or we&#8217;d be in worse trouble. I thank god I still have left things to be thankful for RIGHT NOW. tomorrow will be dealt with tomorrow. that&#8217;s how I cope with money problems I can&#8217;t fix. one day at a time. if I live in the present I can cope <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-the-economy-a-great-reader-comment\/\">[ 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\/769"}],"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=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11989,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions\/11989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}