My psychiatrist has this new idea that we need routine to keep our minds able to focus on the right things. I haven’t got a routine – there isn’t much I do by rote – I have to think through everything. He says if you have a routine it will free up your mind for other less harmful things and I won’t get stuck in these loops of negativity or worry. I’m not sure I believe him. I have to think about something. My mind needs a job - it's always going. Maybe it hasn’t come up with a routine because then it won’t have anything left to occupy it. Sure routine would free up mental space, but then what would you do with it? Don't you need something to replace what occupying it? You know, nature abhors a vacuum.

Anyways, he has this idea that doing exercises for the cerebellum would help with thinking processes and the mental filing system and make your mind more efficient. I said I'd give it a shot. Anyone do anything like that? For how long? What did you do? Did it help you?