{"id":97,"date":"2014-03-14T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=97"},"modified":"2014-03-14T17:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T17:14:40","slug":"stigma-a-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=97","title":{"rendered":"Stigma and struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of stigma attached to any mental health issue. I think it&#8217;s because most people don&#8217;t understand their own mind and can&#8217;t comprehend thinking about how someone might think differently from them. I would say its a struggle for them to know how to act or be around someone with I mental health concerns. Isn&#8217;t it funny how we use that word &#8216;act&#8217;. We all act according to situation or the people we are around, from herd mentality to solitary mentality. Maybe some people just don&#8217;t want to understand.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we are all different and some just don&#8217;t understand how different others can be. Maybe that&#8217;s why people rely on organised religion to give them a moral code to live by as its easier to behave in set ways and patterns. It&#8217;s funny how most organised religions teach tolerance but yet some religious zealots are very bigoted. That&#8217;s life I guess!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we all need to understand and respect each other more in this life and world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of stigma attached to any mental health issue. I think it&#8217;s because most people don&#8217;t understand their own mind and can&#8217;t comprehend thinking about how someone might think differently from them. I would say its a struggle for them to know how to act or be around someone with I mental health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/?p=97\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stigma and struggle<\/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-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebipolarbuilder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}