My goal when I’m down is to take action all day long to make things better. It’s hard. Where will I go? What project should I do first? Will anything work out? Why are things so hard? Etc Etc
All good questions. I will go out and organize my day while I sit at a coffee shop. I will then choose a project and do it. Whether I am crying, filled with OCD thoughts or hopeless. None of it is real. Problems are real and they can be tackled and fixed. These thoughts are bipolar disorder and they need to be recognized and then ignored!
I will make a list under this post about what I accomplished today – just to show myself that I can get a lot done when I’m depressed.
Julie
Here is the list:
- Visited with my mom even though it was hard to be with people.
- Wrote in my journal regarding my mood and then wrote about what I was going to do about it.
- Stuck to my routine.
- Called friends and kept my appointments.
- Reminded myself it would be better the next day.
- Worked extremely hard on dealing with the obsessive THOUGHTS instead of obsessing about the SITUATION.
Julie
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