{"id":1951,"date":"2019-03-07T06:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2019-03-07T06:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T06:58:51","slug":"drink-and-my-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1951","title":{"rendered":"Drink and my mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fridau night, and again Sunday night, I had a couple of glasses of wine. It felt good to be able to. \u00a0I thought on Sunday that it hadn&#8217;t affected me so that&#8217;s why I had some more. \u00a0Yesterday it crept up on me though. \u00a0I felt very tired, there&#8217;s a few reasons for this which I&#8217;ll get into, but I also felt my mood lowering. \u00a0I can&#8217;t drink alcohol without some payback a few days later. It really is that simple. \u00a0Luckily for me I knew what had caused the drop off. Some of the tiredness is down to working out again. \u00a0I&#8217;m now on my second week of working out since before my operation. My body is responding quite fast, it was about 3 months off, and has already started changing and building muscle. \u00a0Once again I&#8217;m dropping some weight but getting bigger due to body fat loss. \u00a0Initially the tiredness can affect my mood, lowering it slightly, until my body responds better and it lifts more. \u00a0Another thing that has played on my mind is the death of Keith Flint. \u00a0Such a shock. \u00a0Very saddening. \u00a0It shows up yet again that wealth and fame don&#8217;t make you immune from mental pain and torture. \u00a0I really feel for his family. \u00a0All of these small things connect like a spiders web for me and build a slightly bigger picture. \u00a0So I&#8217;ve been having early nights and it&#8217;s helping. \u00a0 I&#8217;m feeling ok and I know it will pass pretty fast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> \u00a0Last weekend I got an unofficial PB up the casting field and that made me feel good. \u00a0Things do try to balance out. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fridau night, and again Sunday night, I had a couple of glasses of wine. It felt good to be able to. \u00a0I thought on Sunday that it hadn&#8217;t affected me so that&#8217;s why I had some more. \u00a0Yesterday it crept up on me though. \u00a0I felt very tired, there&#8217;s a few reasons for this which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=1951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drink and my mental health<\/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-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"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=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}