How are you coping today? #4

I'm not coping very well. I was in a bad mood until I took a shower. Now I feel better. I guess that is coping.

I didn’t break down in therapy. I’ve been wearing my head phones for a lot of the day. I made it to Walmart to get a few things my therapist suggested. That was in the middle of the afternoon and Walmart was pretty crowded. But I found what I was looking for and managed not to have a panic attack. No one even glanced at me. Going to Walmart at all let alone at 3PM is kind of a big deal for me.

I'm not sure what's going on today, but I'm feeling kind of worried. It's been a few days on the increased dose and I guess I assumed it was all going to be better by now. It's not as bad but was getting used to feeling better. One day at a time.

I was going to take a drive today. Now I'm so depressed I don't want to leave the house. I just want to sleep. I feel really sad and all I can do is just sleep.

I've had a couple of cups of coffee & that gave me a lift. And I enjoyed the coffee. Thank goodness for coffee.

I'm not...

I didn’t cope badly. But I’ve been super anxious all day despite three 5 mil Valium and not a lot of caffeine. I wonder though if the lack of caffeine is contributing to my anxiety. I have a caffeine addiction and too little can be an issue.

I'm doing better than I did earlier today. Still I'm wary of hostile or negative reactions from this one brother of mine and I'm just wanting to get everything I need to get done and relax.

I think I'm doing okay, working more this week and busy, my pain has flared up again unfortunately and not sure what to do about that as my rather expensive physio session last week doesn't appear to have helped.

I did that yesterday.


Hugs to all.

I'm not coping well. I'm just going through my morning routine unhappy. I have no time to relax. Or have fun.

I’m taking care of my mental health but not my physical health. So my coping is like half bad and half good today. My anxiety and moods are ok. But I didn’t eat much and I haven’t had much water and I’m wearing a black shirt and the heat index is 110. I have a headache so I’m trying to drink water right now. I also didn’t wear a helmet when I was working with my skateboard today and I had some close accidents.

Not as well as I ought to be doing.more distracted than usual.

I'm coping by doing chores and playing games. I'm having a hard time sleeping. I'm hoping to make myself tired enough that when I do go back to bed, I'll sleep.

I feel guilty for a couple reasons. One of them I just made a thread about. The other is that I spent $53 on a hat and while my mom never looks at what I’m buying online I feel like she’ll notice the $53 charge and all the little Amazon ones I’ve done this month that have added up.

A pizza with pepperoni

just pushing it all aside, it's all i can do

I will try to journal. I feel pretty sad today.

Finally got a day off tomorrow, logic would say I should be relieved and relaxed but I feel a little unsettled, I'm worried about a few family members and maybe that's it.

Doing so much better today, not working means my muscles had a chance to rest and I've been stretching and doing exercises which helped. Today has been self care day.

Looking forward to feeling better.

A tad better first therapy session tho it's more an initial session .

Just taking things one step at a time.

It's been really hard sometimes, but I am coping. I pray & plan, & I talk to myself in positive ways when I can. I'll be so glad when the big nightmare is over.

I read all day to cope. I had my noise cancelling head phones on a lot of the day. Although I might have read a bit too much since I forgot to eat a lot today and just grabbed a couple rice cakes here and there. And then this afternoon I felt like I needed protein fast so I ate a little cup of peanut butter. I had a few small pieces of sirloin steak for dinner. But I just feel sick and in pain. Not sure why. Its been going on for a few days. There’s only one thing that can calm it and I feel disgusted with myself right now for doing it. So it’s been a couple days. There’s no way I can tell a medical doctor about it. I told my therapist through email. But I told her it’s something I do more for my physical health then for psychological reasons. It’s like I feel like I have all the symptoms of PMS. But no period. I thought it could also be constipation. I have a really bad pain in my lower right side. So I took 3 colace this afternoon. They helped a bit. And I took Tylenol both at 9AM and at 3PM. I have the heating pad on now. Bur overall I seem to have transitioned well from all my daytime reading distraction to calming down for the night. Even though I’m not feeling well.