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Old May 10, 2014, 05:52 PM
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This may seem like not a big deal but I lack the motivation to clean the house. Before going onto medications for OCD, Seizures & severe manias, I had tons of energy to clean Every Day. I am devoted to taking my meds because they stopped most of the seizures, calmed the manias (for the most part) & I am much easier for my husband to live with. But it is really really hard get myself to clean! I read a book once (forget the title). A father was having trouble understanding why his daughter who had bipolar & was on meds was so "lazy." Her room was a mess, she couldn't get herself to study etc. So, with his daughter's pdoc's supervision, he took her type of meds for 4 weeks. He found himself utterly unable to be motivated to do things like pick up a dropped, broken coffee cup or mop up the coffee he'd spilled. He came away from that experiment much more understanding of his daughter. I wish we had the money to hire a cleaning service once or twice a month!
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I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)