{"id":822,"date":"2009-08-02T21:23:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T21:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=822"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:15","slug":"chasing-bipolar-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/chasing-bipolar-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Bipolar Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 10.95pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'\">I always get confused between what I feel is the normal me and the hypomanic me. I have found that\u00a0 I tend to guess a bit\u00a0on the high side- in other words- the slightly hypomanic me feels normal, but of course it&#8217;s not. I spent 15 years chasing the normal me and it turned out to be the hypomanic me! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 10.95pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'\">My normal self is actually pretty calm. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 10.95pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'\">How about you? Do you chase mania? It&#8217;s easy to do. No one in the world would ever wish for depression. It&#8217;s ok to want to chase mania. Actually letting yourself do it is the problem! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"LINE-HEIGHT: 10.95pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'\">Julie <\/span><\/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>Do you chase mania because it feels like the normal you?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/chasing-bipolar-mania\/\">[ 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\/822"}],"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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11959,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/11959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}