3 more days and it will be 2 months. Good SMART meeting last night. Mood being back on the up side helps. Therapist appointment this afternoon. An interesting tidbit about that - I searched for someone with expertise in mood disorders and substance abuse. During the first session (today will be the 4th or 5th) she said she will key on just the mood disorder to start with. She thinks that if I have better coping skills for dealing with bipolar swings, it is likely I won't have a substance abuse problem anymore. I am not completely sure she is right, but since I am having success at sobriety I don't see the need to push the issue right now. Besides, she might be right. I don't like using my MI to avoid blame for my mistakes but my most recent problems were primarily self medicating.
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|Up and down
|And in the end it's only round and round
|Pink Floyd - Us and Them
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|bipolar II, substance use disorder, ADD
|lamictal, straterra
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