{"id":359,"date":"2023-07-18T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T02:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2025-02-14T21:58:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T03:58:36","slug":"work-on-not-wasting-my-up-moods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Work On Not Wasting My “Up Moods”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At any particular moment, I could say I’m in either an “Up Mood” or a “Down Mood”. I need to stop wasting my \u201cUp Moods\u201d. It’s not useful (in this case) for me to try to figure out \u201cthe why\u201d. I should, instead, be having fun<\/em> during my “Up Moods”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Yet again<\/em>, I’m thinking that maybe I have<\/em> had the right idea for a long time… that maybe my situation is<\/em> pretty rare. My “default” in situations like this is to assume I’m part of the majority<\/em> instead of being one of the “one or two out of a thousand.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve worked with a lot of professionals over the last 12-plus years. They are accustomed<\/em> to dealing with out-of-the-ordinary situations, but they seem positively confused<\/em> by mine. They haven’t told<\/em> me they\u2019re confused, but their lack of useful<\/em> ideas strongly suggests that they are<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ll write that I don’t consider my case’s rarity to be a bad thing<\/em> (beyond the fact that it makes it harder to figure out). On the contrary, uniqueness would explain so many things<\/em> that have confused me for<\/em> years<\/em>. When one of those professionals heard me say that I thought that I was<\/em> experiencing something fairly rare, I think she mistook it for a negative feeling. She told me that her opinion was that my case wasn’t<\/em> unique. I think she was trying to counteract what she perceived as my feeling of isolation. Instead, though, it felt like a rebuke, what she intended as a positive comment felt, to me, negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At any particular moment, I could say I’m in either an “Up Mood” or a “Down Mood”. I need to stop wasting my \u201cUp Moods\u201d. It’s not useful (in this case) for me to try to figure out \u201cthe why\u201d. I should, instead, be having fun during my “Up Moods”.<\/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":[8,12],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-depression","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddlysincere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}