{"id":72926,"date":"2015-08-23T11:25:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72926"},"modified":"2015-08-23T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T19:25:01","slug":"recovering-your-sanity-by-turning-your-back-on-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72926","title":{"rendered":"Recovering Your Sanity By Turning Your Back On Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/07\/men-turning-their-backs-on-modernity\/\">Commenter Dan at Mangan\u2019s writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder a dozen years ago. It was not a misdiagnosis then. I was a mess with run ins with the police and mental institutions and a suicide attempt where my life had to be saved, while managing to graduate with honors from an Ivy league school.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I\u2019ve had totally smooth sailing with stable marriage and four kids so far, a long tenure at a successful job, a nice house, large savings and so on, and some political activism while I tapered off medication almost completely.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some lifestyle changes:<br \/>\n\u2013 Going from binge drinking to no drinking<br \/>\n\u2013 Going from massive caffeination to no caffeine.<br \/>\n\u2013 Going from lots of all-nighters to sleep every night<br \/>\n\u2013 Going from atheism to faith (if you are an atheist and not suicidal, you aren\u2019t trying hard enough)<br \/>\n\u2013 Becoming conservative, not just politically but behaviorally<br \/>\n\u2013 Going from being the life of the party to being a bit square<\/p>\n<p>When I changed, my friends said they wanted the old me back. Ha. The old me was mentally diseased and headed for a graveyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commenter Dan at Mangan\u2019s writes: I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder a dozen years ago. It was not a misdiagnosis then. I was a mess with run ins with the police and mental institutions and a suicide attempt where my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=72926\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72927,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72926\/revisions\/72927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}