{"id":8943,"date":"2017-09-22T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:55:59","slug":"bipolar-disorder-check-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-check-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Check in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mood swings over the past few weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6964\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75.jpg\" alt=\"aaa plane 75\" width=\"336\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75-150x78.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">have been intense, but they are now calmed down. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Managing bipolar disorder is a daily task. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I don&#8217;t get a break. Is it that way for you? I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m miserable or in a mood swing all of the time. I am saying that in order to stay as stable as possible, I treat bipolar disorder first in all things that I do. I&#8217;m speaking in Atlanta, Georgia on the 18th. \u00a0I started planing for the trip last week in terms of getting my sleep on the same time schedule and packing ahead of time. If I don&#8217;t do this- and believe me I don&#8217;t want to!- it will affect my performance! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Julie\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here I am in the tulip fields in Seattle, Washington and traveling in China in 1995. I was hypomanic when I went to China&#8230;by myself! I then got psychotic and depressed in Hong Kong and was finally diagnosed with bipolar disorder a month after these pictures were taken. Wow, so long ago!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-8948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1-1024x734.jpg\" alt=\"china one\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1-1024x734.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1-400x287.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/china-one1.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/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>The mood swings over the past few weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6964\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75.jpg\" alt=\"aaa plane 75\" width=\"336\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75.jpg 336w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/aaa-plane-75-150x78.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a>have been intense, but they are now calmed down. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Managing bipolar disorder is a daily task. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get a break. Is it that way for you? I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m miserable or in a mood swing all of the time. I am saying that in order to stay as stable as possible, I treat bipolar disorder first in all things that I do. I&#8217;m speaking in Atlanta, Georgia on the 18th. I started planing for the trip last week in terms of getting my sleep on the same time schedule and packing ahead of time. If I don&#8217;t do this- and believe me I don&#8217;t want to!- it will affect my performance! <\/p>\n<p>Julie <\/p>\n<p>Here I am <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-check-in\/\">[ 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\/8943"}],"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=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10473,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions\/10473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}