{"id":385,"date":"2009-07-02T20:40:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T00:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/02\/you-and-me\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T20:40:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T00:40:48","slug":"you-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/02\/you-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Debbie Susula<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re overly excited<br \/> You&#8217;re happy<br \/> If I&#8217;m overly excited<br \/> I&#8217;m manic.<\/p>\n<p> If you imagine the phone ringing<br \/> You&#8217;re stressed out<br \/> If I imagine the phone ringing<br \/> I&#8217;m psychotic.<\/p>\n<p> If you&#8217;re crying and sleeping all day<br \/> You&#8217;re sad and need time out<br \/> If I&#8217;m crying and sleeping all day<br \/> I&#8217;m depressed and need to get up.<\/p>\n<p> If you&#8217;re afraid to leave your house at night<br \/> You&#8217;re cautious<br \/> If I&#8217;m afraid to leave my house at night<br \/> I&#8217;m paranoid.<\/p>\n<p> If you speak your mind and express your opinions<br \/> You&#8217;re assertive<br \/> If I speak my mind and express my opinions<br \/> I&#8217;m aggressive.<\/p>\n<p> If you don&#8217;t like something and mention it<br \/> You&#8217;re being honest<br \/> If I don&#8217;t like something and mention it<br \/> I&#8217;m being difficult.<\/p>\n<p> If you get angry<br \/> You&#8217;re considered upset<br \/> If I get angry<br \/> I&#8217;m considered dangerous.<\/p>\n<p> If you over-react to something<br \/> You&#8217;re sensitive<br \/> If I over-react to something<br \/> I&#8217;m out of control.<\/p>\n<p> If you don&#8217;t want to be around others<br \/> You&#8217;re taking care of yourself and relaxing<br \/> If I don&#8217;t want to be around others<br \/> I&#8217;m isolating myself and avoiding.<\/p>\n<p> If you talk to strangers<br \/> You&#8217;re being friendly<br \/> If I talk to strangers<br \/> I&#8217;m being inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p> For all of the above you&#8217;re not told to take a pill or are hospitalized, but I am!                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Debbie Susula If you&#8217;re overly excited You&#8217;re happy If I&#8217;m overly excited I&#8217;m manic. If you imagine the phone ringing You&#8217;re stressed out If I imagine the phone ringing I&#8217;m psychotic. If you&#8217;re crying and sleeping all day You&#8217;re sad and need time out If I&#8217;m crying and sleeping all day I&#8217;m depressed and [&hellip;]<\/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-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}