{"id":5235,"date":"2008-03-29T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/truth-about-bipolar-disorder\/"},"modified":"2008-03-29T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T19:58:00","slug":"truth-about-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/truth-about-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth About Bipolar Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I got a lot of feedback about my little bipolar<br \/>explanation booklets. People really love them.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to write you something. The truth about<br \/>bipolar disorder is that it&#8217;s hard to verbally<br \/>explain.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I made these little yellow booklets.<br \/>Some people have asked me if I really used<br \/>them with my family. YES.<\/p>\n<p>Actually the first person I sent them to was<br \/>my grandmother. I found it hard to talk to <br \/>her about my mom&#8217;s bipolar disorder or her<br \/>daughter&#8217;s bipolar disorder. My grandmother<br \/>loved the booklet and said it helped her<br \/>really understand. <\/p>\n<p>She shared a bunch of them with some other<br \/>people she knew that were dealing with<br \/>bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n<p>I think that there are like 10,000 or<br \/>so in circulation. I am not sure exactly<br \/>because we really didn&#8217;t use to have a good<br \/>record keeping system when this first<br \/>started.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like help explaining bipolar<br \/>disorder, please visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/explainingbipolar\/\">http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/explainingbipolar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk to you tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Dave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I got a lot of feedback about my little bipolar<br \/>explanation booklets. People really love them.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to write you something. The truth about<br \/>bipolar disorder is that it&#8217;s hard to verbally<br \/>explain.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I made these little yellow booklets.<br \/>Some people have asked me if I really used<br \/>them with my family. YES.<\/p>\n<p>Actually the first person I sent them to was<br \/>my grandmother.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/truth-about-bipolar-disorder\/\" 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":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Truth About Bipolar Disorder - Bipolar Supporter Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/truth-about-bipolar-disorder\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Truth About Bipolar Disorder - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I got a lot of feedback about my little bipolarexplanation booklets. 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