Hope everyone is safe from the coming hurricane. I am doing okay. Still those thoughts, but overall feel like I can keep them from turning into a negative spiral. I guess this is what they were trying to teach me in CBT, but I just couldn't do it in the midst of a bad mixed episode. Going to try to keep this up. Not sleeping as much, slept like 6 hrs last night, which isn't bad but I am trying to be careful about that as I think getting 8 hrs has been keeping me more stable. I also am finding myself less distrusting of others in general. I was never fully paranoid, but I remember feeling less sure about people and their actions. For example, I am thinking more positively about my psychiatrist, and that he wants to help me, when before I was thinking he was just annoyed at me and thought I was overly emotional. Helps that I am not having rages as well, and am only a little irritable.