{"id":9621,"date":"2016-08-12T08:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:06","slug":"fruits-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/fruits-of-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder Changes that Bear Fruit…."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Fruit<\/a>Bipolar<\/span><\/span><\/span> depression getting you down<\/span><\/span><\/span>? My goal every day is to go to bed feeling better than when I woke up. I find this goal attainable when I’m in a deep depression. If I set my goal too high- such as not being depressed at all when I go to bed, I’m often disappointed. But… if the goal is to get better throughout the day, it’s always attainable. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My down swings are less than 25% of what they used to be. This is due to medications that work and my plan to do something each day to get better. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I started this plan 20 years ago and it started bearing fruit many years later. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If you start today and make small changes, you life WILL be better year by year. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Long term change- such as a 75% reduction in depression symptoms takes time. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Feeling better when you go to bed is a short term goal you can do TODAY. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My book Get it Done When You’re Depressed lists all of the different fruits of change that can grow on your tree. woo! <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Julie<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Fruit<\/a>Bipolar depression getting you down? My goal every day is to go to bed feeling better than when I woke up. I find this goal attainable when I’m in a deep depression. If I set my goal too high- such as not being depressed at all when I go to bed, I’m often disappointed. But… if the goal is to get better throughout the day, it’s always attainable. My down swings are less than 25% of what they used to be. This is due to medications that work and my plan to do something each day to get better. I started this plan 20 years ago and it started bearing fruit many years later. If you start today and make small changes, you life WILL be [ 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\/9621"}],"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=9621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11147,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9621\/revisions\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}