{"id":118,"date":"2014-03-18T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2014-03-18T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T07:04:18","slug":"watching-thoughts-and-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Watching thoughts and thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;ve realised how much more aware I am of watching my thoughts and sometimes I can change a mood if I notice it tailing off. I can&#8217;t always do this, but the more I&#8217;m aware of my thoughts and feelings the more I am becoming aware of my thought patterns and any triggers. I&#8217;m not sure there are always triggers that I can notice yet, but I&#8217;m working on it. Constant work. When I&#8217;ve nosedived quickly, uncontrollably, I&#8217;ve had slight hallucinations. Nothing bad but slight visual distortions.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>life seems a constant work in progress for me and just when I think I&#8217;ve reached a comfortable level it tails off again and I have more work to do. At least now I feel I&#8217;m progressing. I&#8217;m not sure it will be like that for long but maybe it will. Maybe I&#8217;m through the worst? Life certainly throws things at me and depending on how I feel it affects on my reaction if I react at all. At least for now I&#8217;m doing ok.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve realised how much more aware I am of watching my thoughts and sometimes I can change a mood if I notice it tailing off. I can&#8217;t always do this, but the more I&#8217;m aware of my thoughts and feelings the more I am becoming aware of my thought patterns and any triggers. I&#8217;m not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watching thoughts and thinking<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}