Finding a Purpose
\nPurpose gives you a schedule. When you have passion about something- you will make plans to do it on a regular basis.
\nPurpose helps you manage bipolar disorder because you have something to live for. I don\u2019t take this lightly as I had ZERO purpose for many years. Bipolar disorder took it from me. Then one day, I realized that my purpose in life is to be alive for my seven year old nephew. That changed my life as I could remind myself of this, even when I got really sick. <\/p>\n
Now I find great purpose in helping people who love someone with bipolar disorder. When I help someone who is in crisis just like I was in crisis 15 years ago when I thought my partner would die from this illness, I feel that I have found my purpose in life. It took me over 20 years- but it sure helps life to have a reason to get up in the morning. <\/p>\n
What is your purpose? It can be a child, art, helping others, travel, writing, building a car engine, anything. It doesn\u2019t have to be altruistic. It just has to help you stay alive. <\/p>\n
Julie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Finding a Purpose Purpose gives you a schedule. When you have passion about something- you will make plans to do it on a regular basis. Purpose helps you manage bipolar disorder because you have something to live for. I don\u2019t take this lightly as I had ZERO purpose for many years. Bipolar disorder took it from me. Then one day, I realized that my purpose in life is to be alive for my seven year old nephew. That changed my life as I could remind myself of this, even when I got really sick. <\/p>\n
Now I find great purpose in helping people who love someone with bipolar disorder. When I help someone who is in crisis just like I was in crisis 15 years ago when I thought my partner would die from this illness, I feel that I have found my purpose in life. It took me over 20 years- but it sure [ 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\/975"}],"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=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11931,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}