New Habit/Routine Accountability

Turtle_Rider · Sep 10, 2017, 08:02 AM

This thread has been lonely and silent. How everyone doing?

I do great, through I've skipped one or two habits once.

Hugs all.

seesaw · Sep 10, 2017, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Turtle_Rider

This thread has been lonely and silent. How everyone doing?

I do great, through I've skipped one or two habits once.

Hugs all.

Well, I haven't been doing so great. My meds are causing problems and my depression is just too strong right now. I'm trying to find motivation though.

seesaw · Sep 15, 2017, 07:19 PM

Well, let's try this again. Sorry all, I evacuated due to Irma, and all hope of getting my act together fell apart. But I'm starting anew.

Here are my goals for the next 28 days:

1. Run/jog 3x a week.
2. Record all my food daily.
3. Shower or bathe every day.
4. Get dressed every day.

I'm trying to make this real simple to try and get out of this depression.

How is everyone doing on their new habits or routines?

Seesaw

Turtle_Rider · Sep 15, 2017, 11:43 PM

Hope you ok during the storm.

I doing fine even through I rarely reporting now. A few days I did not pass my goals, mainly the 10PM Phone Restriction.

Now, I decide to remove the writing goals. Not because I stop writing, but I want more focus and consistency in drawing.

Sep 16, 2017, 04:25 AM

My son returned home yesterday so my only goals were cleaning (before I picked him up and took him to lunch

) and making a great dinner. It was a wonderful day.

I bet I will get my concentration back. I will be back to walking with my husband again today, am working on Sunday and hope to pick up some other assignments this week. I certainly feel much less depressed now. I feel happy!

Sep 16, 2017, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Singer47

I have decided to try an old written plan I have stopped using. The plan is made for the whole day. Dare I?

I have no idea what to do other than to follow a plan that once worked. Yes, I do dare that. The plan is very good because it has incorporated 4 hours to work or study each day. Since I don't work for the moment, I can study.

Well, my idea about that I could jump into an old plan from former times did not work. I have little pain, now, but am so sleepy during the days that I have to go to bed for some extra sleep.

Since that's the case, my aims for my days, as long as I feel so tired, have to be to come through my days as best I can and not stir in the depression-porridge.

New Habit/Routine Accountability

seesaw · Sep 16, 2017, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Turtle_Rider

Hope you ok during the storm.

I doing fine even through I rarely reporting now. A few days I did not pass my goals, mainly the 10PM Phone Restriction.

Now, I decide to remove the writing goals. Not because I stop writing, but I want more focus and consistency in drawing.

I have an added goal of one art piece a day too...whether it's a drawing or something bigger...

So far I've done okay today. I haven't showered yet because I showered last night, so I'll shower tonight too. But I did get up and dressed. I ran errands. And I'm working on cleaning up the kitchen little by little.

So, I also need to record my day on a scale of 1-3 so I can try and figure out the patterns here.

Hope others are doing well with their routines or new habits. I'm going to keep updating and posting. Just keep trying, even if you fall away, you can always come back and try again. It's about the effort, not the final product.

Love you all!
Seesaw

Sep 16, 2017, 05:10 PM

Feeling less motivated about writing because I have never been as good at it as many people I know. Continuing but looking at it as something to leave my daughter. I have had some interesting adventures including a few with her father. She's the real talent. If it really is interesting--she would be a better judge than me. It will give me a project for the mornings. For my entire life I have always been the first one up and need quiet projects for the early morning hours while everyone else sleeps.....

Sep 16, 2017, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by seesaw

I have an added goal of one art piece a day too...whether it's a drawing or something bigger...

So far I've done okay today. I haven't showered yet because I showered last night, so I'll shower tonight too. But I did get up and dressed. I ran errands. And I'm working on cleaning up the kitchen little by little.

Well done!
...................................................

I'm sitting here a bit angy and a feeling "bit whatever I do I never reach my aim". It's so difficult with all this tiredness! New Habit/Routine Accountability

Still I printed out page 24-26 form these pages:
https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk//docs/...thDistress.pdf

I hope to find a way to use some of it tomorrow (when I'm not asleep

).

To all: Be well!

Sep 16, 2017, 05:25 PM

What happened to me is I lost any semblance of structure or routine when school started. I'm hanging tightly onto life now. But when I am organized, I feel almost too extreme. I need to find a way to be normal.

I don't think I learned life skills well or at all. Rebuilding is difficult.

Sep 18, 2017, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by seesaw

Well, I haven't been doing so great. My meds are causing problems and my depression is just too strong right now. I'm trying to find motivation though.

Hugs to you seesaw. I have relapses all the time. In fact, I am having one now. You will surely get back to your previous self soon.

Wish me that I get better soon too.....

Sep 18, 2017, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Singer47

Well, I have been at my GP's office. Took a lot of blood-tests, but don't know the results yet. I can feel anger toward the situation I happened to fall into. One thing is that I have all this physical pain. The worst thing, however, is that somebody laid much more into what I had said in a special situation then I meant. Bad leadership made me out of work. Nobody was interested in my part of the story. So that's it; when somebody "clings to the boss' back", you don't have a chance. You can kick as much as you want to, but nobody opens the door for you.

There was a study once about rats or mice who were put in a helpless condition (electrical shock or something) while the control-group had chances to find out how to avoid the shocs. Study showed, as expected, that the mice who controlled their difficult situation made well, while the mice without control wasn't able to gain control later when opportunities for control was given to them. They had become helpless! The researchers called it Learned Helplessness.

I think that so it can be with people as well. When we cannot find the way out after tying time after time after time, we become helpless and stop looking for ways out.

I think that is what has happened to me!

I think the anger I felt when I started writing this was a reminder from me to me that I still have to fight!

I have decided to try an old written plan I have stopped using. The plan is made for the whole day. Dare I?

I have no idea what to do other than to follow a plan that once worked. Yes, I do dare that. The plan is very good because it has incorporated 4 hours to work or study each day. Since I don't work for the moment, I can study.

I AM GOING TO MAKE THIS! Please keep your thumbs up for me. I will start to morrow morning. New Habit/Routine Accountability

Good wishes to all of you in tying to master your depressions and your days.
New Habit/Routine Accountability

You don't know how much you are helping me Singer47. I'm trying to follow how you are trying to get out of the hell hole...coz I am relapsing again and again. Thanks again

Sep 18, 2017, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by seesaw

I have an added goal of one art piece a day too...whether it's a drawing or something bigger...

So far I've done okay today. I haven't showered yet because I showered last night, so I'll shower tonight too. But I did get up and dressed. I ran errands. And I'm working on cleaning up the kitchen little by little.

So, I also need to record my day on a scale of 1-3 so I can try and figure out the patterns here.

Hope others are doing well with their routines or new habits. I'm going to keep updating and posting. Just keep trying, even if you fall away, you can always come back and try again. It's about the effort, not the final product.

Love you all!
Seesaw

Sep 18, 2017, 03:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Singer47

Well, my idea about that I could jump into an old plan from former times did not work. I have little pain, now, but am so sleepy during the days that I have to go to bed for some extra sleep.

Since that's the case, my aims for my days, as long as I feel so tired, have to be to come through my days as best I can and not stir in the depression-porridge.

New Habit/Routine Accountability

I am using your coping tools too. Thanks so much Singer47.

952p65823 · 06:48 PM

OK, I have returned. My original super-bourgeois goal, don't use Uber Eats, is going fairly well. A few slips, but now that I'm on an easier work schedule, I think I can resist the urge. I'll put some food-related stuff behind a TW thing, because I know food is hard for a lot of folks.

Possible trigger:

Now I have to seriously work on losing weight. Many of you have doubtless heard of Zyprexa! Boy, when they say weight gain is a side effect, they aren't lying! So I have to get this under control. My feet hurt because of the extra weight on them.

My goal is to do my main eating in the middle of the day, not at dinnertime. Today I was successful. I ate some unhealthy snacks, but I think my total intake was pretty reasonable.

Turtle_Rider · Sep 21, 2017, 07:30 PM

I have not reply here regularly.

I'm a little bit in mess this week. I skipped a lot, but at least each day I reach at least one of my 3 goals.
Hopefully today and ths weekend it goes back to normal.

952p65823 · Sep 22, 2017, 05:20 PM

Another post about food! Bon appétit!

Possible trigger:

I've got to laugh to keep from crying--I ate a hospital cafeteria vegetarian wrap and a cookie today, and I honestly think this may be the true caloric requirement for a 40-year-old woman on Zyprexa. It's somewhere WELL below 1800, that's for sure, because I know pretty well what 1800 cal involves, and I gained a lot of weight eating that! So I'll wait and see if I get hungry for dinner and go from there.

seesaw · Sep 22, 2017, 07:09 PM

My routine has been crap. I just can't get a handle on this depression. But I am going to figure out a routine I can handle that gets me back to healthy. I wish it were as easy as saying, 'have discipline' but it's not.

ptangptang · Sep 23, 2017, 01:40 AM

Will walk to the sports centre later for Body Balance ( a mixture of tai chi and yoga) then on the way back will stop off to watch football ( or soccer) at the pub ( How British does that sound). There is a local london derby between West ham and Tottenham which will be on tv. Cor blimey, stone the crows, luv a duck that should be a right ding dong and no mistake cos we don't like each other. haha. Have a great day everyone.

952p65823 · Sep 23, 2017, 08:51 AM

Food post!

Possible trigger:

Going to be home all day today studying...perhaps I will make a delicious, nutritious corn salad before the ingredients go bad?!!! It's technically fall now...should I make some bread? I've got a whole wheat bread machine recipe perfected--I should post it here.

Sep 27, 2017, 02:35 AM

Yesterday I was down and not taking charge of my life. I allowed my H to take control. It is bad for our mental health when we don't take the reins of our own life or are stuck in a situation which we have no control.

I woke up at midnight (to early!) but I was determined to take control. I have been writing for two hours. I am seeing things clearly. I am not blaming or depending on the actions of others. I am controlling what I can control in my life. I must admit that included volunteering for a work assignment this upcoming Saturday just because I need a break from my H. That includes, as it has for years and years, being productive between 1 and 5 AM when I am the only one up in the house. I will not allow my life to be stuck or others to depress me!!!!

Turtle_Rider · Sep 29, 2017, 01:42 AM

I've been busy these days, I rarely up in this thread or even PC.

Like previous post, sometimes I skipped, but lessen than before. I discover I have more energy if I wake up on 5 AM and do my practice drawing before work rather than after work. So now except weekends I would wake at 5 AM and sleep at 10 PM.

How everyone doing?

seesaw · Sep 29, 2017, 07:35 PM

Well, I'm finally starting to get into my routine. Mostly because I'm not fighting my natural urges. So right now I can't get to sleep before 3am (I'm off all meds right now, which really hurts when you have terrible insomnia) so I end up waking up around 930-10. But what I've been doing is just not fighting that and working around it. Today I finally met my step goal of 10,000 steps again. I was consistently making it April, May, June and July, but after I lost my job it went to heck. I've gotten some chores done the past few days, and I haven't napped, which is amazing considering that with not going to bed til 3am that I should be taking a nap. I did lay down for a bit around 5pm today, but I had an early dinner and knew I was going to work out this evening so I took an hour to rest.

I just have to re-learn what it's like to have discipline. If you want something, you have to work for it, and I suppose that includes health and happiness too.

Seesaw

952p65823 · Sep 30, 2017, 09:25 AM

Another food post! Man, that girl is boring! : )

Possible trigger:

I lost 1 pound this week with very moderate calorie restriction. This must mean that my metabolism is back to normal. My psychiatrist gave me a ton of Metformin to counteract the weight-gaining effects of olanzapine/Zyprexa. My baseline calorie requirement is still way low--well below 1800, which is about where I am without Zyprexa--but at least it's POSSIBLE to lose weight.

I'm trying to start taking my vitamins and fish oil again. So many pills to swallow! I eat such a poor diet that I do, imo, actually need the supplements. And fish oil is so good for the blood lipids (triglycerides and cholesterol) that I think most everyone should take it.

Exercise, of course, is another story. I can't even post about that until I start doing it.

seesaw · Sep 30, 2017, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by 952p65823

Another food post! Man, that girl is boring! : )

Possible trigger:

I lost 1 pound this week with very moderate calorie restriction. This must mean that my metabolism is back to normal. My psychiatrist gave me a ton of Metformin to counteract the weight-gaining effects of olanzapine/Zyprexa.

I'm trying to start taking my vitamins and fish oil again. So many pills to swallow! I eat such a poor diet that I do, imo, actually need the supplements. And fish oil is so good for the blood lipids (triglycerides and cholesterol) that I think most everyone should take it.

Exercise, of course, is another story. I can't even post about that until I start doing it.

I'm going to go on an iron supplement. I think it may help me with fatigue and anxiety.

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