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May 02, 2014, 04:25 PM
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Hello,
I am new here -- thought I'd drop in...wanted see what others thought about not begin able to recoginize your own mental state. I was recently diagnosed type 2, and looking back it explains a lot. For years I hid it under alcohol and other things, and exasperated it with those as well -- but I found that years of masking my emotional state and then sobering up, I don't really have any skills at knowing what I am feeling at any given moment...I just don't...my wife tells me she can tell if I am hypo or if I am depressed -- but unless I look BACK on it, I could have told you in the moment what I was feeling. Anyone else experience this? |
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#2
May 02, 2014, 04:41 PM
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I am very aware of my mood states but I have not always been. I could always tell the depression was there because I would start thinking people were saying horrible things about me behind my back...Christ now I see the paranoia...just great.
Anyway I suggest charting your mood every day in terms of numbers, not mood. I use a 1-10 scale. 1 is suicidal and/or active self harm. 10 is I believe I'm magical. Normal for me is 6. Five is just meh. It might help you detect a pattern and you wouldn't have to label a mood state until afterward. Might help you be more insightful.
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Of course it is happening inside your head. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real? -Albus Dumbledore That’s life. If nothing else, that is life. It’s real. Sometimes it f—-ing hurts. But it’s sort of all we have. -Garden State |
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#3
May 02, 2014, 04:42 PM
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Welcome to the family.
I think that I know what you mean. To me, staying up all hours to scrub the basement walls & floor, by hand, was what everyone did Staying in bed for four days - ditto etc Seemed just fine at the time For me, I covered up by taking professional courses People would leave me along because I was so busy with school Am I making sense? |
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May 02, 2014, 06:45 PM
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Its hard when I am in the middle of it to recognise it. In the past it has come gradually after reducing meds. It is also hard when other are telling me I am in the middle of it. In the past I would think they are the problem.
FWIW, I have been sober 20 years and I was hospitalized 7 times in my 2nd and 3rd year of sobriety.
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May 02, 2014, 07:02 PM
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Since I have gotten help and been on meds, I find myself second guessing my thought process. Like is this feeling or want legitimate or is it coming from an unhealthy place? I am usually a very confident person so its weird to be second guessing myself, but I suppose its better then acting without thinking it through.
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