It was wise of me to drop the walking yesterday. I have had a good night's sleep, a long breakfast and then my longest walk since I started my walking. Two days ago I walked 2,8 km. Today I walked 4 km.

It was sunny today and hot. After my walk, I was at a museum (shade). I bought small cakes for my coffee time at home and more fruit for the weekend.

I am glad I put my plan (my tools that usually work for me) together yesterday. I read a lot about routines and structured days yesterday (as motivations). Generally all articles I found were about the benefits for a lot of emotional disorders; anxiety, depression, bipolar, cyclothymia and more.

I found that out years ago that a structured day (with room for rest and pleasure as well), is very helpful for me. I understand that it is not possible for everybody to have strict routines. We are all different! To me stable routines are Alpha and Omega, the key to live well with both emotional and physical disorders. The most dangerous I can do is to step out of my routines. Without them, depressive thoughts often sneaks in and make me sidetracked.

Still, the most difficult for me is to remember that without routines my life almost crashes. I forget about them when life is OK, but THAT ended yesterday. NB. I have promised myself to remember to schedule my time and to watch out for triggers more often to prevent depressed episodes.


I have not had any elevated mood the last years. I think I can thank the routines for that and a relatively better social life than before.


Am sending good thoughts your way!