{"id":8040,"date":"2014-06-04T23:22:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:58","slug":"bipolar-disorder-and-baby-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-baby-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder and Baby Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8041\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" alt=\"zebra\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bipolar Disorder and Baby Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine just wrote me that she was having a hard time with her bipolar disorder and she had to remind herself that it&#8217;s all about baby steps- especially when you are first diagnosed. This is what I wrote back. When I read it I thought it might be a message that could help other as well!<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh yes. It\u2019s baby steps for the rest of your life- but it gets easier because the hard times have a lot of good times in between. I went a long time without a down swing and then had a bad reaction to a medication for my back. It reminded me of how much I hate depression. I then wasn\u2019t able to get to sleep- and I was reminded of how important sleep is with this illness. The constant reminders let me see how far I have come. It will be the same for you, I promise. One day, you will go long periods of time where you are stable and life is easy and you can sleep and do your work and have a great life. It just takes planning. My favorite word! Julie\u00a0<\/em><\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8041\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" alt=\"zebra\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zebra-150x121.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bipolar Disorder and Baby Steps<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine just wrote me that she was having a hard time with her bipolar disorder and she had to remind herself that it&#8217;s all about baby steps- especially when you are first diagnosed. This is what I wrote back. When I read it I thought it might be a message that could help other as well!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes. It\u2019s baby steps for the rest of your life- but it gets easier because the hard times have a lot of good times in between. I went a long time without a down swing and then had a bad reaction to a medication for my back. It reminded me of how much I hate depression. I then wasn\u2019t able to get to sleep- and I was reminded of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-and-baby-steps\/\">[ 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\/8040"}],"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=8040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11317,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8040\/revisions\/11317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}