It's been a while since I have been on the forums. For a while, I was doing okay. For a while, being on the forums became triggering. But, as I sit in my work cubicle feeling bored with nothing to do but think, I can dwell on my thoughts and feel my feelings. Well, I guess I was already feeling mny feelings, which brought me back to the forums anyway.


At any rate, I have been feeling really down lately . . . and really irritable. I went to the NAMI support group I normally attend and received some thoughts on how to manage the irritability. But the hardest situation is dealing with it when I talk to my Mom. Almost everything I say is tainted with the irritability and comes out really critical. I just don't know how to keeping the sharp notes out of my tone when I speak to her. She doesn't deserve it, and aside from trying to make myself pause a beat before I say anything, I am unsure what to do.