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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
I know this may sound strange, but sometimes it takes lessons like you described to put an end to behaviors that hurt ourselves. From me to you, give yourself maybe one more day max to beat yourself up, and then forgive yourself and really truly vow to keep the drinking to a bare minimum or quit it altogether. Talk about what happened to both your pdoc and/or tdoc so they know you still need stabilization.
It's good you're having yourself checked out. I hope that sex partner doesn't have "anything". If he does, it's possible you won't catch it. Other STDs are more common than HIV, and from what I've learned, even HIV is quite manageable nowadays. Probably pregnancy is your greatest risk. Isn't there still a "day after" pill? Unless you're against such things.
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I am already on birth control, but I'm still within the window of being able to take the morning after pill, so I'm kind of going back and forth about it....but since I've been taking my birth control pill regularly, I'm not as worried about that. Another reason that I am mad at myself is that this is not the first time that this kind of thing has happened.
It's been a while though, and the one thing that was working for me before is avoiding certain situations, including alcohol. Bipolar as is makes me feel out of control a lot, so alcohol is the last thing I need. I really don't think about consequences until after-the-fact during certain phases of Bipolar.
I really do try to stay away from drinking, and I just happened to have a slip up this time around, but I plan on going back to avoiding certain places where I am vulnerable.