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My therapist asked me what are my "New Year's resolutions". He specifically wanted to know what I had "planned" for my mental health. What was I going to do better? What was I going to stop doing?
Now to be honest, I'm not that kinda "New Years resolution" person. I don't do those, BUT I like the concept of changing myself for the better. (I believe that if you want to change yourself, you should just do it instead of waiting for the New Year... but hey, everyone is different.) Do you have any resolutions for your MI? For example, "stop self medicating", "stay in therapy", or "take medication consistently" etc.. Or another way to look at it, what about your MI treatment do you want to change? |
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Work out as much as I can. Stay on my medication. Working out helps me (to a point)when i am depressed or manic. Going off medication is just a stupid thing I like to do.
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Bipolar I /Panic/Anxiety disorder Lithium: 900mg Cymbalta: 60mg Valium: 5mg Latuda: 40mg |
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Great thread topic!
![]() I am going to remain med compliant. I am going to better ID triggers and stay away from as many as possible. I mostly need to avoid "toxic people." I am going to continue with daily exercise, as it helps me to cope with stress. I will try to be more mindful of keeping balance in my life each day. Happy New Year! ![]() ![]() WC |
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Since my bipolar is med controlled I'm going to work on getting out of my comfort zone. That means driving and being outside by myself. I hope I can be well enough to take classes this summer.
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to become socialable ... stay at prescribed doseages ... go to sleep earlier ... eat better ...
chance of sucess ... 10% or so .... Happy New Years everyone ... |
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I'm going to remain med compliant, continue a good sleep schedule, and do a better job of staying away from toxic friends and family.
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![]() Eat a live frog for breakfast every morning and nothing worse can happen to you that day! "Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged Bipolar type 2 rapid cycling DX 2013 - Seroquel 100 Celexa 20 mg Xanax .5 mg prn Modafanil 100 mg ![]() |
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The New Years resolution for me will start when I return to California next month
I'm going to switch to vaping. Ask my Pdoc to prescribe new meds I've been reading up on and try them out.
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![]() Day Vraylar 3 mg. Wellbutrin 150 Night meds Temazepam 30 mg or lorazepam Hasn't helped yet. From sunny California! |
#8
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Be kind to myself, try to sleep more and rumminate less, drink less and be stronger.
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Glory to heroes!
HATEFREE CULTURE |
#9
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try and harm myself less.
cutting works for me, but it's not pretty afterwards. make more use of helplines (such as samaratans), and not just bottle things up |
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oh yes
actually write in my journal (and not just say i'm going to do it) |
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Trying to eat healthier and exercise more. I need to work on being less critical of myself because it seems to bring me down even more. I'll be damned if this year goes the way 2016 did.
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Dx: BP2 and MDD Current meds: 100mg Wellbutrin; 200mg Lamictal; 400mg Seroquel at night; Xanax 1mg/PRN; 100mg/PRN Trazodone at night for insomnia Diagnosed in May 2016 |
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I'll only use my e-cigarette, won't buy or smoke cigarettes. So far, so good.
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Mania kills cells. Brain cells die. Memories become more reduced conceptually, making more efficient use of limited means. Memories shape our reality. Our memories are more or less split in two by abstractions, conceptual reductions. Mood states with memories, concepts, attached. Memories of pain and those of joy. It causes instability, changeability. Fearing that will leave an emptiness between pain and joy and a greater divide. See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me. |
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I'll try to keep my apartment tidy. Right now it's kind of disheveled.
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Qui Cantat Bis Orat ingrezza 80 mg Propranolol 40 mg Benztropine 1 mg Vraylar 4.5 mg Risperdal .5 mg ![]() Gabapentin 300 mg Klonopin 1 mg 2x daily |
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