Tag: stress
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My Mental Health
For those of you just joining me I am a mental health advocate. I take my psych meds every day unless there’s a mix up at the pharmacy. I saw my counselor today and do so about once a month. We talk about the stress of my day to day life, my arguments and anxieties,…
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Romancing My Wife
What’s your definition of romantic? Once in a while my wife and I have a lunch date. It’s good to spend time with her by herself. There’s much less stress that way. If everything goes smoothly I might even be able to give her a “backrub.”
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Sleep as Self-care
The way I handle stress and pain is to sleep it off. Sometimes that’s four hours. Sometimes that’s twenty hours. The world knocks me down, and I stay down until I’m feeling a little more awesome.
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How I Exercise
What’s the most fun way to exercise? I don’t do traditional exercise. I get my exercise from doing practical tasks and chores like walking to the store, carrying laundry and garbage, getting up and down for diapers, and holding the valve of our bathtub hose in place to fill the tub. I see very little…
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I Fast and Pray
Today is Fast and Testimony Sunday. However I did not go to the Sunday meetings. As a matter of fact I haven’t gone to Sacrament at all this year. Sunday is supposedly a day of rest, but I have NEVER found church the least bit restful. I have trouble sitting through lectures. I enjoy socializing…
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Stress and Homeless Men
More people have visited today than usual. My parents are stressful, I love them dearly and it’s good stress, but stressful nonetheless. They brought food so one of my two sons came for lunch. Now I have my regular homeless friend at the table and another homeless man he just met. Gods help me. Oh…
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Loving Her
It’s another late night that has turned into an early morning. I sit in the den as I do sometimes contemplating the combination of love and stress in my life. In particular right now I’m thinking about how I can make my wife’s life less stressful without being overwhelmed in mine. I’ve been loving her…
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Therapy Thursday
Today I went to see my counselor. My anxiety and stress are low enough that I only need to go about once every month and a half. My mania and depression are under control with a cocktail of psychiatric medications. I try to be open and honest about these things because doing so serves two…
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Actual Saturday Morning
I slept until a little past noon today except for getting up briefly at 4am to clean up poop. The house was quiet otherwise and I don’t have to work until later. So now I sit at my computer screen wonder what to say about a morning that I didn’t really have. My wife doesn’t…
Latter Day Sinner 