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Old Apr 01, 2020, 04:40 PM
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Had a good appointment with my therapist today, first time via phone, it went well We talked about my anxiety related to things going on in the world and how I'm coping with that. And also the situation last week with the police/swat team/shooting in my building. It was a very good conversation, it was nice to talk to someone too because I live alone and the only other person I really hear from now with the social distancing going on is my sister, so I sometimes go a week or so without any human interaction whatsoever, neither in person or over the phone. I have a friend I normally hang out with but obviously we can't right now. And I don't have my cats anymore so there's no company. I'm very thankful for PC because I have a lot of good friends here.

Have to go grocery shopping tomorrow. That always makes me nervous even without this whole situation going on, so now it's like ten times worse. But I'll get through it.

Meditation has been helping me a lot. To let go of things I can't control, stop stressing 24/7, to stay in the moment and enjoy little things. Breathing and grounding myself to stop panicking. And just thinking about other things than the virus constantly.. cause doing that really wears on my mental health, and anybody's really.

Getting back in touch with my faith/praying is helping as well. I think that's one good thing to come out of this whole ordeal, I was struggling with my faith for quite awhile a year after being baptized and confirmed in 2018. It's been strengthened during this though, so I'm happy about that
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Diagnosis:
Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type
PTSD
Social Anxiety Disorder
Anorexia Binge/Purge type
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