{"id":1797,"date":"2017-11-11T07:33:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T07:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2017-11-11T07:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T07:33:31","slug":"question-the-negative-self-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Question the negative self talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m feeling really good. \u00a0Things are going well. \u00a0I know there will be blips. \u00a0I know there will be things that go wrong. \u00a0I know that I am who I am. \u00a0I know that only I can make changes in my life. \u00a0I know that things are getting better and better all of the time. \u00a0Things are great. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0I&#8217;ve been discharged from psychology a few weeks and have even had a letter about some stuff. \u00a0I saw the cpn a week ago yesterday and he&#8217;s pretty amazed at where I&#8217;m at. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be discharged from MH services early next year. \u00a0I can always jump back in if I need to.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> \u00a0This is the most mentally well I&#8217;ve been for at least a decade now and it&#8217;s getting better all of the time. \u00a0I know that things can get tough but I&#8217;ll ride them out. \u00a0I question any negative self talk now. \u00a0I have my drive for life back again. \u00a0Keeping things logical really is helping. \u00a0My wife has been worried that I&#8217;m a little energetic but I&#8217;ve reassured her that it&#8217;s just my normal state which has been gone for so long. \u00a0My sleep is really good. My eating is good. \u00a0I&#8217;m still off social media. \u00a0I&#8217;m making some serious and sensible life plans and they&#8217;re falling in place. \u00a0It will all take time. \u00a0In the past I&#8217;d of been pushing for it to happen faster and faster. \u00a0This time I can see the sense in the waiting. \u00a0I don&#8217;t need to rush. \u00a0I&#8217;m setting goals that push me but they&#8217;re sensible goals. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit scary being able to do all of this and know I&#8217;m ok. \u00a0It&#8217;s scary looking back at how unwell I have been. \u00a0It&#8217;s also scary, in an amazingly good way, to be able to plan ahead and have goals. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s all good.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m feeling really good. \u00a0Things are going well. \u00a0I know there will be blips. \u00a0I know there will be things that go wrong. \u00a0I know that I am who I am. \u00a0I know that only I can make changes in my life. \u00a0I know that things are getting better and better all of the time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Question the negative self talk<\/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-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}