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<\/a>Bp Magazine just shared my trigger article\u00a0on Facebook. (You can find me on Facebook at Julie A. Fast and Julie A. Fast Books.) I need to read my own articles as it helps me assess where I am a the moment. Bipolar disorder can distort my thoughts and a check in is essential for me to make sure I’m not acting out of the illness and not my true self.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nBipolar disorder and triggers! Oh wow. I needed to read this today! My move to Europe has been a challenge. Of course it has. I had two big bipolar triggers when I got here. I made it through both of them by using the strategies I talk about in the article below. Bipolar clouds my thinking so much that it’s important I have people around me who can help me see reason. I now see how triggers affected my travel in the past. I used to just roam the world without having a plan.\u00a0Now I have a plan and trigger management is top of the list.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n How do you manage your triggers?<\/p>\n I’m interested. I can say that being in England for a few weeks reminded me that environment is everything. I am staying with a friend who seems to understand me. That has made the move possible. People with bipolar get triggered by life events- whether they be positive or negative. I got sick this week, but I used my plan and with the help of my friend, I got through the awful depression episode. We CAN manage this illness. We CAN reach our dreams.<\/p>\n Click here to read the Bp Magazine article Manage Your Bipolar Disorder Triggers and Cut Your Symptoms in Half!\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n Bipolar disorder and triggers! Oh wow. I needed to read this today! My move to Europe has been a challenge. Of course it has. I had two big bipolar triggers when I got here. I made it through both of them by using the strategies I talk about in the article below. Bipolar clouds my thinking so much that it’s [ 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\/9418"}],"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=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11167,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions\/11167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Julie<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
<\/a>Bp Magazine just shared my trigger article on Facebook. (You can find me on Facebook at Julie A. Fast and Julie A. Fast Books.) I need to read my own articles as it helps me assess where I am a the moment. Bipolar disorder can distort my thoughts and a check in is essential for me to make sure I’m not acting out of the illness and not my true self. <\/p>\n