{"id":8051,"date":"2014-06-11T18:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T01:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:57","slug":"the-world-cup-has-started-and-so-have-my-bipolar-disorder-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/the-world-cup-has-started-and-so-have-my-bipolar-disorder-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Cup has started&#8230;&#8230;and so have my bipolar disorder symptoms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/painted-street-brazil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8052\" alt=\"painted street brazil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/painted-street-brazil.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/painted-street-brazil.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/painted-street-brazil-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/World-cup-big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8053\" alt=\"World cup big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/World-cup-big-213x300.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>My OCD is acting up. Darn bipolar. How do I keep my excitement level normal so that I can SLEEP? That is the question. You guys know me. You know my philosophy. But just for once, can&#8217;t I get excited without getting sick too!\u00a0 I can and will learn to live and be stable and have fun and SLEEP. \u00a0Julie<\/p>\n<p>PS. Well, reality bites. Just closed my World Cup Twitter account <em>because it was getting too successful<\/em>.\u00a0Only bipolar could make me ill because I got too excited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I need to focus on writing as it is the one thing I can do that doesn&#8217;t\u00a0cause symptoms. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been managing\u00a0bipolar disorder\u00a0for a long time. It&#8217;s always a struggle when something new shows up and I have to see if my brain can handle the change. Sometimes it can. I&#8217;m able to travel and speak professionally, for example.\u00a0 But sometimes it can&#8217;t.\u00a0 It seems to be the situations where I&#8217;m waiting to hear from others about something I&#8217;ve said or done are the main problem. I&#8217;m still learning how to better manage this illness!<\/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\/painted-street-brazil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8052\" alt=\"painted street brazil\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/painted-street-brazil.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/painted-street-brazil.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/painted-street-brazil-150x98.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/World-cup-big.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8053\" alt=\"World cup big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/World-cup-big-213x300.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>My OCD is acting up. Darn bipolar. How do I keep my excitement level normal so that I can SLEEP? That is the question. You guys know me. You know my philosophy. But just for once, can&#8217;t I get excited without getting sick too! I can and will learn to live and be stable and have fun and SLEEP. Julie<\/p>\n<p>PS. Well, reality bites. Just closed my World Cup Twitter account because it was getting too successful. Only bipolar could make me ill because I got too excited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I need to focus on writing as it is the one thing I can do that doesn&#8217;t cause symptoms. I&#8217;ve been managing bipolar disorder for a long time. It&#8217;s always a struggle when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/the-world-cup-has-started-and-so-have-my-bipolar-disorder-symptoms\/\">[ 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\/8051"}],"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=8051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11313,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}