Here is a question about travel from Karen:
Julie, was your plan to adjust your sleep schedule a week ahead of time successful? My BP husband must travel from the West coast to East next month and I have been frantically searching for ways to help him do this without becoming ill. Thank you in advance for your answer!
Karen
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Karen wrote this question in a comment about my blog post on how I deal with time changes now that I can travel again- if you go to the menu on the right, you can click on travel and the post will come up called Traveling to the NAMI Convention in Florida. It helps to read that before you read this post.
Hi Karen,
I always tell people with bipolar disorder to think way, way ahead about time changes when they travel.
Have you ever noticed that when we hear a tragic story about bipolar disorder in the news- the cause of the mood swing was often travel where a person’s sleep and medications got off schedule? I listen to these stories whether it be of a football player who misses the Super Bowl- or someone who became ill after traveling to a wildly different time zone such as going to South America and I think- we HAVE to have a plan for everything we do. Bipolar disorder does NOT like change, especially time changes.
Bipolar disorder runs on a very strict biological clock- which is why shift work is considered one of the top triggers of bipolar disorder- in fact, [... Read More ...]
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