{"id":954,"date":"2012-11-12T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:18","slug":"bipolar-disorder-management-secret-an-answer-not-the-answer-but-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-disorder-management-secret-an-answer-not-the-answer-but-an-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter: Bipolar Disorder Management Secret….. an answer (not THE answer, but an answer!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s often hard for people with bipolar disorder to know what is reasonable and what is unacceptable. If you\u2019re born with a certain kind of brain- it makes you say and do things that are normal to you. For example, people with bipolar disorder get stressed a lot more easily than the general population. They get more angry- cry more- try to kill themselves more- and definitely get higher than anyone without the illness when it comes to mania.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0even though\u00a0it is natural for us, it’s\u00a0not ok and it\u2019s certainly not a very productive way to live- but it\u2019s what our brains do. So it makes sense that we will all have to learn what is reasonable and acceptable so that we can survive in the average world.<\/p>\n

How can you stop behavior that is unacceptable and non productive?\u00a0 I have found an answer that took me a long time to master, but I\u2019ve kept at it for 10 years and it\u2019s working.<\/p>\n

Here are some tips:<\/p>\n

1. I regularly examine how my behavior is affecting all of the people in my life. Do they want to be around me?<\/p>\n

2. Do I have friends who actually think I\u2019m a cool person?<\/p>\n

3. Do people avoid me?<\/p>\n

4. Am I able to listen to someone without talking about my troubles all of the time?<\/p>\n

5. Do people feel comfortable enough to tell me they think I am in a moodswing?<\/p>\n

Bipolar disorder is sneaky- you would think that the above would be rather easy- you simply have to look and listen to the people in your life and change your behavior, right?\u00a0 Wrong- our brains are fighting reasonable self reflection.\u00a0 Bipolar depression and bipolar mania lie to us and make it difficult to answer the above questions.\u00a0 But it can be done! How would you answer the questions today? And if you love someone with bipolar disorder, how would they answer the questions?<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s often hard for people with bipolar disorder to know what is reasonable and what is unacceptable. If you\u2019re born with a certain kind of brain- it makes you say and do things that are normal to you. For example, people with bipolar disorder get stressed a lot more easily than the general population. They get more angry- cry more- try to kill themselves more- and definitely get higher than anyone without the illness when it comes to mania.<\/p>\n

But even though it is natural for us, it’s not ok and it\u2019s certainly not a very productive way to live- but it\u2019s what our brains do. So it makes sense that we will all have to learn what is reasonable and acceptable so that we can survive in the average world.<\/p>\n

How can you stop behavior that is unacceptable and non [ 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\/954"}],"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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11439,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/11439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}