WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 2011
Mood - I was feeling dopey when I woke up. I woke up at 9:00 am when I heard loud thunder outside. I didn't feel great and took 2 excedrin migraine in case a migraine happened. I also took an allergy pill. After going out to Crazy Burger with Caryl and coming home in the rain and lightening I started to feel very anxious. I feel like bad things are going to happen and I can see them. This meeting with RIBS Group feels very wrong and I'm not sure if it's an instinct or a symptom of depression coming on.
Physical - I went to bed at 4:00 am. I am feeling weird in my abdomen. If I twist to fast or in a weird way my belly inside feels twisted and sore.
Woke up - I woke up at 9:00 am. I plan on getting up at 9:00 am.
Activities - Last night I found a website called "Black Dog Institute" located in Australia. I was looking for mood charts for my WRAP Workbook. I found many some charts there and also many activity sheets that would work well in my WW. Today I am writing a Daily page for yesterday and am posting today's incomplete blog page. I closed many windows in the house anticipating rain because of the thunder. Rain never came.
I went to the post office and checked my box there was only a circular in there. I drove over to the Peacedale Library and photocopied 25 Daily Page sheets for the next month. I dropped by Citizen's and picked up $20.00. I went to the Wakefield Pharmacy and bought Dad a back-scratcher/shoehorn for Father's Day. Caryl and I went for a 1 mile walk on the Bike Path. We then went to Crazy Burgers for a Goofy Gorgonzola and Crazy Cajun burger, calamari, sweet potato fries, and mexican fried ice cream. When we left Crazy Burger there was a large thunderstorm pelting raindrops down and lightening. We drove to the light house in Point Judith to see the lightening strike the water. Hail came down and the storm didn't last for more than an hour. I came home and wrote yesterday and today's Daily Pages as well as finished today's Blog.
WRAP - Wrote the blog for today. I also wrote today and yesterday's Daily Page. I ordered 3 work sheets online at UPs for tomorrow (RelapseSignatureLearningfromExperience.pdf, PrioritiesIdentifyingYourPrioritiesSheet.pdf and PatientTreatmentChart.pdf). I also found some helpful URLs that I thought would help me in writing my WRAP.
The Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health (CQAIMH) conducts mental health services research and provides quality management services to improve community-based care for individuals with mental health and addictions disorders. Consisting of faculty and staff from the Institute for Clinical Research & Health Policy Studies at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine and Harvard University, CQAIMH develops methods of quality assessment, studies organizational determinants of quality, and tests strategies for quality improvement.
Welcome to Bipolar Lives. Here you can take a bipolar test, learn about bipolar symptoms, AND read story after story about people who have Bipolar Disorder. This is a link to the Bipolar Toolkit.
The Black Dog Institute is a not-for-profit, educational, research, clinical and community-oriented facility offering specialist expertise in depression and bipolar disorder.
People are welcome to download copies of these resources retaining the acknowledgement of the Black Dog Institute as the source.
I posted this article in my blog today:
by Living with bipolar on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 10:13am:
Plans for Tomorrow I plan on getting up. I plan on an activity for the WRAP book. I am planning on picking up food at the senior center at 1:00 pm and giving them the income sheet back. I also plan on picking up the order from UPs at 12:00 pm.
I would like to write up a "project page" addressing a need for change. I want to change a bad habit so that I 1) Stop doing something bad 2) exchange the bad action with a positive action 3) and get a result that will help me in my life.
A reminder: I need to write out a check for Anchor Storage. On the 16th RIBS Group is planning on meeting at 6:00 pm in the Warwick Library Room 100. I am suppose to co-chair it with Donna.
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