stuff & things.
When I was diagnosed last year, I read a shitload of self-help books and pretty much every major website that is devoted to psychiatry or psychology. Overwhelmingly, the number one non-pharmaceutical piece of advice that is given to bipolar folks is to get a routine and stick to it. The best book I read on the subject, Break The Bipolar Cycle, describes BP as an inability to handle stress and emotion. And I will say that is essentially what I have found. All of my symptoms flare up when I make major changes, which have all corresponded with med increases.
What I am saying is it wasn’t the best idea to completely change my routine in a winter month, at time when I need to be on my A-game, all day, every day. And for all the self awareness and journalling and obsessing, I have been in a fog, especially with my mother being sick.
I feel pretty awful, but trying to get out of the circle of anxiety. It’s rough. It’s not easy. Medication does not fix it all. Not in the least.
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