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How is everyone managing self care in quarantine?
I've been trying my best to bathe frequently, but I miss some days. I wore press on nails for a few days, but I didn't love them so I removed them. I'm waiting for nail growth to start painting my nails again. I've been doing my skincare routine, so my skin looks pretty good. I have been eating fruit and drinking water, which is great. I should exercise more. I'm going to try to do some arm exercise with my 5 lb dumbbells. |
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I've been taking walks and doing stretches everyday. I take showers most days. Bought some nice lotion to use and nail clippers because my nails were growing out and I play ukulele so I needed to clip them. I meditate almost daily and use mindfulness often. Also journal a lot. I need to start eating a little healthier though.
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi Diagnosis: Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type PTSD Social Anxiety Disorder Anorexia Binge/Purge type |
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Bodyweight workouts, 2 mile runs, and long walks. I have to get outside every now and then or it starts getting to me. Especially voices, they'll close in if I just sit inside all day. When outside my brain can be distracted a lot more and I don't notice them nearly as much.
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Hi KD -My nails were painted with gel when we went into lockdown. I removed it with acetone (which is the only substance that removes gel). They were left very damaged, painfully so. I bought a bottle of biotin off Amazon - the biotin is helping my nails repair. Not dramatically, but definitely better and more quickly.
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I have been bad about eating too much and not exercising, but the parks opened up in Texas recently, so now I can go for walks.
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Been working out daily with 20lb dumbbells and bodyweight. Walking daily at least 3 miles
Bathing daily once, sometimes twice cause I'd stink like hell otherwise. Been focusing meals around protein and taking protein supplements. Not too focused on counting calories. Oversleeping cause a side effect of my meds is sedation and sometimes I'm *this* close to passing out on my walks |
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Walking almost daily and need to do small hand weights more often since was doing this fairly often before the lock down. Need to get a better sleep routine as sometimes go to bed too late or fall asleep on the couch. Eating fairly healthy, but could include fruit more often.
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I have a difficult time bathing and it's hard to stick to routine self-care. I do take my meds every day. I'm pretty good about my insulin. I have exercises for physical therapy. I struggle with those.
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‘Live for now,’ ‘This too shall pass,’ ‘Everything is happening for my good.’ |
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I'm pretty much approaching it on a day-by-day basis. Whatever I need that given day, I try to do my best to do that thing. Just focus on one thing even. Today it was going to class. I did that. I think it's wise for me to just do one thing that I can do on any given day. I sometimes obsess about what that one thing should be, but whatever...
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