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Old Jul 30, 2016, 07:47 PM
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Originally Posted by bluebicycle View Post
vertigo's thread about "early warning system" inspired me to post this thread...
  1. Are you good at identifying your triggers?
  2. Are you able to sense when you're about to have an episode?
  3. Do you regularly do mood charting or mood journaling?
1. Not really
2. I'm getting better at it!
3. I try but I suck at it

Going to therapy helped me SO much with #2. My T taught me how to think critically about "warning signs" and whatnot when I feel myself spiraling down into depression or getting keyed up in a hypo episode. She also got me started on mood journaling -- just writing down how I feel at the end of each day -- but I really am terrible at it. I don't know how to talk about how I feel, not even with myself. I don't know if I have emotions but I can't process them, or if I'm an emotionless void, or what. But I can't look back at my day and say things like, "Oh I was sad today" or "xyz made me happy today." I dunno why... but hey that's why I am still in therapy!
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