{"id":9887,"date":"2016-11-08T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T18:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=9887"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:56:04","slug":"the-bipolar-disorder-not-so-great-coping-list-bp-magazine-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/the-bipolar-disorder-not-so-great-coping-list-bp-magazine-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bipolar Disorder “Not So Great” Coping List: BP Magazine Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beer, food, meth, stimulants, energy drinks, video games, unprotected sex, bad relationships, obsessive internet checking, smoking, tattoos, spending, raves, ecstasy, pills, hard drugs, new shoes, new relationships, have a baby, nachos, lottery, obsessive friendships, junk food, caffeine, new lipstick, pot, new haircut, hard liquor, party, buffet, new roommate, new city, fantasy football, \u2026 anything to feel \u2026 alive, better \u2026 something!<\/em><\/p>\n

You are NOT alone if you have a similar NOT-SO-GREAT bipolar disorder coping list.<\/strong><\/p>\n

My list used to be very long. I drank a lot in order to calm down.\u00a0 I got caught up in manic internet dating and now have an STD to live with for life. (I am always honest about this as STDs are a consequence of mania for many of us.)\u00a0 Constant moving and walking into contentious relationships were also big items on my coping list.<\/p>\n

I have fixed these behaviors over the years.\u00a0 I have changed.<\/p>\n

I have a much shorter list now:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Social media checking, sugar\u2014especially ice cream and pop, obsessive binge watching of Scandinavian mysteries on Netflix and expensive restaurants!\u00a0\u00a0 These are still problems, but I\u2019m working on changing even more.<\/div>\n

I am so much better than when I was first diagnosed and used a huge coping list to get me through the ups and downs that I simply couldn\u2019t explain until I found out I had bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n

What does your not so great coping list look like?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the rest of the article in a separate window. <\/a>I love BP Magazine. The owner Joanne Doan and all of the support staff have been incredibly helpful in my life and career. Please consider supporting the magazine through a subscription if you enjoy the content!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Beer, food, meth, stimulants, energy drinks, video games, unprotected sex, bad relationships, obsessive internet checking, smoking, tattoos, spending, raves, ecstasy, pills, hard drugs, new shoes, new relationships, have a baby, nachos, lottery, obsessive friendships, junk food, caffeine, new lipstick, pot, new haircut, hard liquor, party, buffet, new roommate, new city, fantasy football, \u2026 anything to feel \u2026 alive, better \u2026 something!<\/p>\n

You are NOT alone if you have a similar NOT-SO-GREAT bipolar disorder coping list.<\/p>\n

My list used to be very long. I drank a lot in order to calm down. I got caught up in manic internet dating and now have an STD to live with for life. (I am always honest about this as STDs are a consequence of mania for many of us.) Constant moving and [ 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\/9887"}],"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=9887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11120,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions\/11120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}