{"id":100,"date":"2012-02-24T00:56:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2012-02-24T00:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:59:15","slug":"bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/activism\/mental-health\/bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bipolar Does Not Mean<br \/>\nI Attract Metal Filings<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Bipolar&#8221; means that my emotions and energy vary from highs to lows without relation to my own will or anything that is happening in my life. This began when I was three years old. For most of my life, I frustrated parents, teachers, employers, my husband, lovers, children and friends. They knew I <strong>could<\/strong> be a &#8220;high-achiever&#8221; when I <strong>tried<\/strong>, but I would persistently switch back into a withdrawn, languishing day-dreamer. They knew I had <strong>sense<\/strong>, but I would periodically do something wild and totally &#8220;out of character.&#8221; I was 44 before I found out that I had &#8220;bipolar disorder.&#8221; I was 45 and homeless before I found effective treatment for it.<\/p>\n<p>These pages are provided to help make sure that other children and adults with bipolar, depression or other mood disorders get relief a whole lot earlier than I did. It&#8217;s not your fault, you aren&#8217;t doing it deliberately, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with your character. And this disease is not <strong>you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bipolar Does Not Mean I Attract Metal Filings &#8220;Bipolar&#8221; means that my emotions and energy vary from highs to lows without relation to my own will or anything that is happening in my life. This began when I was three years old. For most of my life, I frustrated parents, teachers, employers, my husband, lovers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/103"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/anitra.net\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}