Today has been a week of realizing and, eventually, accepting that my general anxiety level has risen to ridiculous levels over the past few weeks. For a little while, around the time that Sondra started getting sick I started having a lot of problems with depression — lack of motivation, feelings of hopelessness, extreme sadness, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘building structure’
Permission to Abort Operation Anxiety
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, conflict, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distraction techniques, distress tolerance, effectiveness, forgiveness, irritation, love, meditation, mindfulness, obsession, obsessive thinking, obsessive thoughts, OCD, panic attack, sacred self, self-esteem, willingness on July 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Posted in Daily, tagged "me" time, anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, employment, in-laws, love, meditation, mental health, music, numbing, opposite-to-emotion, relationships, willfulness, willingness, work on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have discovered the key to being happy at work — I have to be busy. When I have a “paperwork day,” I end up goofing around and not getting anything done. When I have inmates scheduled all day, I’m all over it and get everything on my “to-do” list done. That overwhelmed feeling that [...]
Gimme a Break
Posted in Daily, tagged Bipolar, building structure, catastrophizing, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distress tolerance, mindfulness, music, PTSD, radical acceptance, sleep on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This was written yesterday…
I have a shit-ton of radical acceptance to practice. I am having a hard time accepting my current activity level. I have to walk a lot (I mean A LOT) at work and at the end of the day, my legs hurt, my feet are swollen and aching, and my back is [...]
w00t w00t!
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, catastrophizing, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, effectiveness, employment, happiness, Health, love, mindfulness, music, PTSD, radical acceptance, sacred self, self-soothe, weight loss, willingness on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nothing like a lack of blogging to make one think. Or not think, for that matter. I have spent the last month pretending like my new job is not stressing me out. Part of me thinks that this job can’t possibly be stressful, because that would mean that I am symptomatic. Well, that’s just not [...]
My Vacation From the Weekend
Posted in Daily, tagged building structure, dogs, effectiveness, willingness on March 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The beauty of having a full-time, 8-5 job is that the week goes by fast. Like, lightning fast. It doesn’t hurt that I’m busy busy busy trying to dig my way out of the huge hole that was left for me, but it feels like it was just Monday. I don’t know where the time [...]
Giving New Meaning to the Phrase “TGIF”
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, conflict, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, diet, distraction techniques, distress tolerance, employment, Health, mindfulness, music, PTSD, radical acceptance, sacred self, self-soothe, willingness on March 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Hallelujah, baby…it’s the weekend! And I’m not sure where my cell phone is, and that’s ok. I’m not worried about the stupid things my clients might do, the 2 a.m. crisis calls I might have to field, the irate landlords calling at 6:00 a.m., or the local hospitals blowing up my phone 24/7. I know [...]
Falling Off the Face of the Earth
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, diet, employment, finances, Klonopin, legal drugs, PTSD, relationships, sleep, trauma, weight loss on February 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I am fairly out of it this morning…keep that in mind as you are reading and wondering if I am drunk.
Between starting a new job, tapering off Klonopin, and taking care of an unemployed and depressed Dr. Love, I have failed to blog regularly. I believe my last blog was almost a month [...]
The Pieces Fall Together
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distraction techniques, distress tolerance, effectiveness, employment, finances, happiness, hope, independence, joy, love, mindfulness, music, organization, PTSD, relationships, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, self-soothe, sleep, willfulness, willingness on January 31, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been horrible about blogging, so far out of my past routine that it seems as if that time was in a past life. In a way, it was. Life is totally different now. My outlook, my goals, what I know, what I want and don’t want. There is a clarity to my thoughts [...]
Wowza
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distraction techniques, distress tolerance, effectiveness, employment, finances, happiness, hope, independence, joy, love, music, radical acceptance, relationships, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, self-soothe, willingness on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
No worries, Adriana. Your blog award is the very next post which will be typed right after I finish this one. Yours takes more creativity and I have to warm up first.
Okay, a very ridiculously long time has passed since my last post. I find it PREFER-able :) to post more frequently and know [...]
Glorious Day Off
Posted in Daily, tagged building structure, DBT, dialectical behavior therapy, distraction techniques, effectiveness, happiness, hope, independence, joy, love, mindfulness, music, organization, relationships, self-soothe, willingness on December 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Today, Matt and I both have the day off. This in itself is fairly rare. To add to the gloriousness of it, we don’t have our day jam-packed with things to do. We are going to be people of leisure. I told him that there would be no housework, no errands to run. I managed [...]
