{"id":825,"date":"2018-02-18T19:59:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T19:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essn.us\/?p=825"},"modified":"2018-02-18T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T19:59:39","slug":"too-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essn.us\/?p=825","title":{"rendered":"Too happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m studying bipolar and personality disorders. Was expecting to help improve a situation. Ran across an article on bpHope that adds to my confusion. You know what I&#8217;m thinking in 2019? Forget my help. It may take years to figure out what helps and what hinders the road to recovery. &#8220;<span dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"_3l3x\">Personal integrity is essential for mental health. It is hard to sell something that you don\u2019t have&#8221; (J. Kline, 2019).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pop a pill because a person is too happy? I&#8217;m betting the white coat pill pushers appreciate the following load of bull-oney:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Can you imagine my dilemma? If you have bipolar, then you probably can. I am too happy. I am too energized. I am manic. If I don\u2019t do something about it now, it will get worse and turn into a mess. I will miss deadlines by working too much. It makes no sense\u2014you would think<\/em> [bla, blah, blah]&#8221; (Julie Fast, 2018; para. 6).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bphope.com\/blog\/bipolar-mania-you-want-me-to-take-a-pill-because-i-am-too-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.bphope.com\/blog\/bipolar-mania-you-want-me-to-take-a-pill-because-i-am-too-happy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m studying bipolar and personality disorders. Was expecting to help improve a situation. Ran across an article on bpHope that adds to my confusion. You know what I&#8217;m thinking in 2019? Forget my help. It may take years to figure out what helps and what hinders the road to recovery. &#8220;Personal integrity is essential for&nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[24,40],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-therapies","tag-bipolar","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essn.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}