{"id":1801,"date":"2009-05-26T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2009-05-27T07:22:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T11:22:04","slug":"bipolar-you-cant-hide-from-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-you-cant-hide-from-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar?  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What happened?<\/p>\n<p>If you are a supporter reading this and your loved one is trying to hide their bipolar disorder,<br \/>\nhow do you feel about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s it going for you today?<\/p>\n<p>I was reading an article in Reader&#8217;s Digest recently on ways to hide all sorts of things.<\/p>\n<p>For example, they talked about how to hide extra weight just by the way you dress, or by<br \/>\nthe way you accessorize the way you dress.<\/p>\n<p>And how to hide your personal identity (especially on the Internet) so that you don&#8217;t fall prey to identity theft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-you-cant-hide-from-this\/\" class=\"more-link pull-right\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bipolar? 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