{"id":9362,"date":"2016-03-10T02:18:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=9362"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:47","slug":"bipolar-disorder-affecting-your-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-affecting-your-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Affecting Your Relationships?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"black<\/a>You are not alone! \u00a0I often read through my past articles for Bp Magazine. I’m reminded that my bipolar disorder management plan is daily. I just moved to Europe. I’m staying with a friend in a beautiful, quite and very remote English village.\u00a0 Well, remote in my city girl way of thinking! I planned carefully for this move. I did all I needed to do to prepare MYSELF. Well guess what? The biggest skills I needed when I got here were my relationship skills! What are your greatest strengths as a friend? Julie<\/p>\n

Here is the start of the article called Bipolar and the Relationship Trap from Bp Magazine:<\/p>\n

Recently, a friend asked me, \u201cJulie, why don\u2019t you write a book about bipolar disorder\u00a0and relationships?\u201d \u201cI already did that with my first book for couples where one person has bipolar,\u201d I replied. \u201cI don\u2019t mean couples, Julie!\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cI mean friendships. I can\u2019t seem to keep any friends.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I know what my friend\u2014a man in his late 30s who struggles with bipolar disorder\u2014meant by this statement. Like me, he wanted good\u00a0relationships, but often found that bipolar got in the way. In the years after I was finally diagnosed with bipolar in 1995, I managed to lose almost all my friends because of my neediness, irritation, paranoia, medication side effects, and more. In 2001, I hit rock bottom when I received a letter from my best friend (I\u2019ll call her \u201cMelissa\u201d) that changed my life forever. While it was terribly hard to read, this letter ,in fact, saved my future relationships.<\/em><\/p>\n

Melissa and I had been friends since high school; I was always the aggressive force in the relationship. As my illness got progressively worse, I became weak while she became strong. She started sticking up for herself; I, on the other hand, began to sink into a hole of\u00a0depression\u00a0that seemed inescapable. I called Melissa constantly and complained about my life. When she didn\u2019t respond the way I wanted, I became paranoid and\u00a0angry, telling her she wasn\u2019t a good friend.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0An unwelcome look at \u2018relationship killers\u2019…… click below to keep reading.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Click here to read the whole article from Bp Magazine.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"black<\/a>You are not alone! I often read through my past articles for Bp Magazine. I’m reminded that my bipolar disorder management plan is daily. I just moved to Europe. I’m staying with a friend in a beautiful, quite and very remote English village. Well, remote in my city girl way of thinking! I planned carefully for this move. I did all I needed to do to prepare MYSELF. Well guess what? The biggest skills I needed when I got here were my relationship skills! What are your greatest strengths as a friend? Julie<\/p>\n

Here is the start of the article called Bipolar and the Relationship Trap from Bp Magazine:<\/p>\n

Recently, a friend asked me, \u201cJulie, why don\u2019t you write a book about bipolar disorder and relationships?\u201d \u201cI already did that with my first book [ 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\/9362"}],"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=9362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11173,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions\/11173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}