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 ‘effectiveness’
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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Brain Dump
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, catastrophizing, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distraction techniques, distress tolerance, effectiveness, forgiveness, guilt, happiness, hope, independence, joy, love, mindfulness, music, nightmares, PTSD, radical acceptance, relationships, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, self-soothe, sleep, trauma, willfulness, willingness on December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For the final 118 minutes of today, Saturday, the 27th of December, year of our Lord 2008, I am going to not care about what anyone thinks of me. I have spent far too much time today consumed by it. I am also not going to worry about that which I cannot change, which I [...]
Gotta Do What You’ve Gotta Do
Posted in Health, Neuroticism, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, building structure, catastrophizing, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distress tolerance, effectiveness, employment, happiness, hope, independence, joy, Klonopin, legal drugs, love, mindfulness, mixed episode, nightmares, organization, PTSD, radical acceptance, relationships, SAD, seasonal affective disorder, self-soothe, sleep, trauma, willfulness, willingness on December 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m barely able to keep my eyes open this morning, even though I was a good girl and went to bed at a decent time last night and got about 8 hours of sleep. I just have energy. I think it has a lot to do with the cyproheptadine I took last night. My old [...]
The Mother of Avoidance — Denial
Posted in Neuroticism, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, Bob Dylan, building structure, catastrophizing, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distraction techniques, effectiveness, employment, hope, joy, mindfulness, music, organization, PTSD, SAD, self-soothe, sleep, willfulness, willingness on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This blog is in a state of serious disrepair and neglect. Am I, in turn, in a state of serious disrepair and neglect?
It feels like all I’ve done in November and December is sleep and work. And really, that’s about the state of it. Am I working too much? Absolutely not. I’m still technically part-time, and [...]
Avoidance
Posted in Daily, tagged anxiety, Bipolar, catastrophizing, conflict, DBT, depression, dialectical behavior therapy, distraction techniques, distress tolerance, effectiveness, guilt, happiness, hope, independence, joy, mindfulness, PTSD, radical acceptance, self-soothe, trauma, willfulness, willingness on December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It has been over two weeks since I have last blogged. Almost three, in fact. And I really haven’t been keeping it up too well since August, even though I see it as a valuable tool. I have been choosing not to use it.
Don’t get me wrong. I get on the computer at least once [...]
