Straight Talk on Managing Bipolar Disorder » money http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog by Julie A. Fast Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:58:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Copyright © 2010 Straight Talk on Managing Bipolar Disorder juliethewriter@speakeasy.net () juliethewriter@speakeasy.net () posts Learn about bipolar disorder, it's symptoms, side effects and how to create stability juliethewriter@speakeasy.net No no http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Straight Talk on Managing Bipolar Disorder http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog 144 144 Depressing media coverage of our ‘economic’ situation http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog/depressing-media-coverage-of-our-economic-situation/ http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog/depressing-media-coverage-of-our-economic-situation/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:04:24 +0000 Admin http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog/depressing-media-coverage-of-our-economic-situation/ My media fast

I decided to go on a media fast a few months ago. All of the depressing news about our world economy was not helping the reality of my own economic situation! So I turned off all news. I stopped listening to NPR, reading Yahoo headlines, looking at newspapers and reading business magazines. It [...] Related posts:

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thank u for this. I needed some cheering up. financially we are at out wits’ end. I function only due to my meds. without them i’d be dead now. bipolar is no joke, and having [...] Related posts:

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I just received this question via Twitter.  It’s such an important topic, I wanted to give as many tips and resources as possible. These tips are all excellent ideas, even if you do have insurance!

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This may have not been too smart business wise, but I felt it was necessary. I put everything on the card and it’s not like I was going on spending sprees- it was mostly normal stuff like groceries and dinner as well as my business stuff.  But now that [...] Related posts:

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