1. I take care of my daughter who is a beautiful, brilliant, hale and hearty soon to be 9 year old girl.
2. I take care of my daughter.
3. I take care of my daughter
4. I take care of my daughter
5. I take care of my daughter
6. I rest from taking care of my daughter as it stretches me to the limits of my very limited physical and emotional capabilities.
7. I watch TV: Law and Order, House, ER, Sixty Minutes, Monk and Psych. Also love 30's, and 40's old movies on TCM.
8. Two nights a week, maybe, I cook. My husband probably cooks 3 nights a week. I do laundry and redo the laundry my husband did. I make the beds and strip them and keep repeatedly injuring my back on this and many other household tasks. I have to use the riding carts to grocery shop or shop at Walmart. I take my daughter to gymnastics, dance, and swimming class. If I in a period of depression, my husband takes over with my daughter. He got her off to school 90% of the time the past year. I do her homework with her. My daughter and I lunch at the mall and walk around it about every two weeks. Window shopping. Usually I can't walk for 2 days after we do this, but it is fun to be two girls. I taught my daughter to swim but now am taking her to lessons because she does better when someone else teaches her first and I reinforce. She told me she wants me to be a sports mom!?! She wants me to really push her in either gymnastics or dance or swimming--but I am not quite sure what she means. I think she means that when my depressions resurge, she feels invisible and she is trying to lock in my attention.
9. I am teaching my daughter to clean house. This one of those situations of "those who can't teach, lol." She is very enthusiastic.
10. I have been focusing a lot lately on how my husband and I have very little time together. On weekends he works third shift and it messes him up. My depressions cause me to really fold in on myself. We are older, low energy parents, hopefully more wise, but I don't know. Both of us are relationship challenged.
11. Last month I added PC to the one other website I visit. It has been wonderful, it has given me a lot of pause, and stirred up feelings, which is good for me. I would prefer not to have any, but that wasn't working for me as the saying goes.
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Bipolar disorder with very long depressions and short hypomanic episodes. I initially love the hypomanic episodes until I realize they inevitably led to terrrible depressions. I take paroxetine, lamotrogine and klonopin.
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