{"id":8700,"date":"2014-11-22T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T23:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=8700"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:52","slug":"do-pets-help-with-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/do-pets-help-with-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Pets Help with Bipolar Disorder Mood Swings? Can Pets Help with Physical Pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chair<\/a>Yes, they can!\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>They help my mind and body. I’ll write soon about my back injury from a biking accident, but I wanted to share this picture of myself with my cat Bibi and one with my mom’s dog Cookie. I’m in an anti gravity chair to help my back. The family pets keep me company! They are so intuitive.<\/p>\n

Dealing with a serious physical injury while still managing my bipolar disorder has taught me to love my body.\u00a0<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have an appreciation for what the body does instead of just dwelling on how my body looks. I now love and respect my body and can’t wait until I can walk, sit and stand with ease! I will never complain again about being too fat (when I wasn’t at all! ) And I will never again judge myself by how I look.<\/p>\n

I’ve learned\u00a0 that strength, health and mobility are what matter. If you have a stable mind and a healthy body you can accomplish anything.<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I haven’t written about my accident as I was waiting to get better before explaining it all- but alas, I’m still getting better so it’s time to explain why I don’t answer my blog comments as quickly as I would like! \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u00a0 I’m able to do my coaching and professional writing gigs, but writing my latest book and speaking are out for awhile.\u00a0 It has been a lesson in coping with what’s on your plate at the time- even if it’s something icky! Like liver and onions.\u00a0 Wow, I doubt this reference will make sense outside of the US. \ud83d\ude09 The best treatment for pain is a positive attitude. Julie<\/p>\n

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\"chair<\/a>Yes, they can! They help my mind and body. I’ll write soon about my back injury from a biking accident, but I wanted to share this picture of myself with my cat Bibi and one with my mom’s dog Cookie. I’m in an anti gravity chair to help my back. The family pets keep me company! They are so intuitive.<\/p>\n

Dealing with a serious physical injury while still managing my bipolar disorder has taught me to love my body. <\/p>\n

I have an appreciation for what the body does instead of just dwelling on how my body looks. I now love and respect my body and can’t wait until I can walk, sit and stand with ease! I will never complain again about being too fat (when I wasn’t [ Read More ]<\/a><\/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\/8700"}],"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=8700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11238,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8700\/revisions\/11238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}