I flounder without a very rigid schedule. If I have too much free time, the thoughts take over and life can get pretty miserable. When I\u2019m well, I don\u2019t have to worry about this, but as I deal with depression pretty regularly, I realize that being scheduled is a lot better than the \u2018let\u2019s see what happens\u2019 mentality.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those on disability or those who can\u2019t work much still need set schedules in order to stay happy and stable. My dear friend Sherri and I talk about this all of the time. Since her manic episode in 2007, she has not been able to work like she used to- and yet she still needs to work intellectually! It\u2019s a rotten situation to be in. So we talk a lot about her schedule and what she can do on the days she doesn\u2019t work. You can only meet so many friends and go to so many coffee shops. She already has a masters\u2019 degree and unless she takes PhD courses, university classes are often not challenging enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her current dose of Zyprexa also causes cognitive problems and physical slowness-\u00a0 when you\u2019re super smart as Sherri is- it\u2019s frustrating because you can see what the illness does to you- She will go down on the Zyprexa in a few weeks- it was raised when she tried a night job. She now knows she can\u2019t work late at night.\u00a0 Last week, we sat down and created a list of what she can do on the three days she doesn\u2019t work. It was a good list and she can now create a schedule around the list! This is how I have to do it as I work on my own.<\/p>\n
Wow, those of us with bipolar disorder are amazing people considering what we have to go through. Sherri is my hero. I know I say that a lot.\u00a0 She has Bipolar I which is hard to deal with.<\/p>\n
Julie<\/p>\n
PS: Sherri is going to answer questions on this blog- so feel free to write and ask her some good ones!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I flounder without a very rigid schedule. If I have too much free time, the thoughts take over and life can get pretty miserable. When I\u2019m well, I don\u2019t have to worry about this, but as I deal with depression pretty regularly, I realize that being scheduled is a lot better than the \u2018let\u2019s see what happens\u2019 mentality. <\/p>\n
Those on disability or those who can\u2019t work much still need set schedules in order to stay happy and stable. My dear friend Sherri and I talk about this all of the time. Since her manic episode in 2007, she has not been able to work like she used to- and yet she still needs to work intellectually! It\u2019s a rotten situation to be in. So we talk a lot about her schedule and what she can do on the days she doesn\u2019t work. You can only meet so many friends and go to so many [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}