I've been depressed for two months, which I finally nailed down the probably causes. It started with me switching to gummy vitamins, which did NOT cut it. (After three days of no vitamins, I get super depressed, and I took them till they were gone.) And then got a cold from AgtOrange, and went sporadic on my meds, and then I caught another cold ( Read more... )

Sometimes I do things and even I don't know why.

Thursday, Day 10 of 30 in my diet: Went to my volunteer place, did stuff fairly as normal mostly sitting and making up cottons & cookers bags until the arthritis said "no". Sometimes I push for 100, which is probably twice what I should really do in one sitting. But I wasn't pushing this time, ( Read more... )

Hating my GP right now, although I can understand her reluctance to keep prescribing me pain meds. She sent me to pain management to "fob me off" on them, but pain management understandably didn't want to have 57 different drs writing me prescriptions. So they agreed to consult with my GP and tell her what to write for me, only somewhere along ( Read more... )

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I've read through and selected what I think are some of the most fascinating and insightful articles from the blogs of Psychology Today that deal with the topic of addiction. I pretty much scanned them all (and many were sort of generic junk) so if you've been keeping up with my journal I doubt you'll need to go through them, but if you'd like to ( Read more... )

They are basically tables; the point assignments are estimated times to complete each task (1 point = 1 hour) with three 'bonus' activities that take little or no time but can also earn me points to make up for stuff I might have missed ( Read more... )

I think I've come as far with my life schedule check-ins as they are going to take me. I know where my strengths are (taking meds, making my smoothie, going to therapy) and where my weaknesses are (exercising, Spanish lessons). And the check-in itself takes me a couple of hours to process and type, time I could better spend actually doing stuff ( Read more... )

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What happened? Thursday I went and volunteered and all was well. Only I let my HALT get away from me, I left hungry, I left lonely, I left tired. And there were calls on my mind, calls from folks that always seem to find you at your weakest points. I kept telling myself, you need to eat, you need to rest, you need to go out and socialize with ( Read more... )