Cognitive Retraining

Hi everyone
So I am to the point that I am remembering to take at least one of my two meds everyday (almost) so I am starting to notice some of my maladaptive behaviors. With this new perspective I've also come to realize that I have very little if any self control and/or self disipline. I know being on the correct dosage of meds is only half the battle so I am trying to find ways to help me with the bad habits aspect. Has anyone found any that are particularly helpful?

Hello Julie-Bug: From my perspective, I think it might depend on what the bad habits are. However, I see this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to PsychCentral… from the Skeezyks! I hope you find the time you spend here to be of benefit.

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Hi and thank you for the welcome my main bad behavior has to be picking up carloads of free stuff to resell locally. If I don't sell the stuff I find a local organization in need of items and give them as much as I can. That's pretty much my job - I manage estate sale projects and do resale of items that I acquire one way or another. The problem is that I can't walk away from free stuff that I run across. So I'll fill my blazer up bring it home to my apartment and then I will end up needing to take care of a job or something and it will just sit there. I started doing this before I got diagnosed and I know how to pack a lot of stuff into a small space so now I feel overwhelmed with all the stuff in my apartment. Every time I try to start going through it to pull out my stuff and separate the junk from the sellable items I end up wandering off or start to get wishey washy about tossing stuff. I think "oh well someone could use this or I think so & so said they needed one of these or I could totally use this for a project in the future etc." and before I know it I don't have anything in my trash pile and all the stuff I just went through is I separate boxes taking up even more room. It drives my long term boyfriend insane - we have been together over 9 years now so he has been putting up with this quirk along with many many more forever. Having the self control to keep driving when I see a pile of free stuff is super hard for me to do. I'm pretty sure that is what made me realize how little control I have. Should I start giving stuff a time limit for how long I can keep it without using it or getting it to where it's supposed to go? Anyone else have this issue?