{"id":9269,"date":"2015-12-02T03:10:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T11:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=9269"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:48","slug":"what-does-bipolar-disorder-mania-spending-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/what-does-bipolar-disorder-mania-spending-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Bipolar Disorder Mania Spending Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have bipolar disorder.\u00a0I used to spend enormous amounts of money during my hypomanic episodes.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019m much more stable now thanks to my treatment plan,\u00a0but it doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m cured!<\/p>\n<p>Check this out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152.jpg\" alt=\"mania pens 2015\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassing, but better than spur of the moment trips to China and $2000 chairs!<\/p>\n<p>This creeps up on me. I buy pens. I use them at work, but no one uses this many pens. \u00a0I feel better when I buy pens, so I allow it. But I must stay aware and prevent bigger spending.<\/p>\n<p>This illness wears me out, but we can survive and do just fine. What does your (or a loved one&#8217;s) manic spending look like? Do you have a plan in place to make sure it doesn&#8217;t go too far?<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/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>I have bipolar disorder. I used to spend enormous amounts of money during my hypomanic episodes. I\u2019m much more stable now thanks to my treatment plan, but it doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m cured!<\/p>\n<p>Check this out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152.jpg\" alt=\"mania pens 2015\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/mania-pens-20152-400x533.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Embarrassing, but better than spur of the moment trips to China and $2000 chairs!<\/p>\n<p>This creeps up on me. I buy pens. I use them at work, but no one uses this many pens. I feel better when I buy pens, so I allow it. But I must stay aware and prevent bigger spending.<\/p>\n<p>This illness wears me out, but we can survive and do just fine. What does your (or a loved one&#8217;s) manic spending look like? Do you have a plan in place to make sure it doesn&#8217;t go too far?<\/p>\n<p>Julie<\/p>\n<p> <!-- 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\/9269"}],"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=9269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11189,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9269\/revisions\/11189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}