secrets - Bipolar Disorder Message Board

weasel · 01-19-2004, 01:05 PM

do you guys have little things that get you through the day? i have a few, but lately, all i can really do is sit on thecouch, no matter how much i want to do stuff, i even put off going to the bathroom. i think i need to up the ritalin, but will i just be going up exponentially? i want to just sit in the back corner of the closet and fade away...........im not even sad today, my body just wont go. i got it to work and back. to my part time, why dont i just volunteer job. at least i am doing SOMETHING tho right? like im in a good mood................my body just wont work....*sigh*

thickman · 01-19-2004, 01:09 PM

Here is my tip for getting through the day...

Get up, and JUST DO IT no matter how much you don't want to...

I FORCE MYSELF to do EVERYTHING I DO...

Go to work, by force..
Have a shower, by force..
Watch tv, by force...
sit still, by force...
Etc...

say in the morning, I will even CURSE MYSELF in my own head to get going...

ahhhh... my "secret"

bok · 01-19-2004, 01:20 PM

I put off going to the bathroom! I put off doing almost everything. I put stuff off at work, I put off just about anything you could imagine....

Luckily I am in a good mood this month...but november and december....I was about to put my self off a bridge....

wobbly · 01-19-2004, 04:11 PM

I'm like thickman, I have to force myself to do stuff--except for one thing: smoke. I actually use my smokes as a way to keep myself moving, i.e., "As soon as I get done doing X, I'll treat myself to a smoke." Not that I'm recommending that anybody start smoking in order to use this system! But it works for me!

u2fran · 01-19-2004, 06:59 PM

I'm so unmotivated and/or depressed lately that I have to force myself to get out of bed in the mornings, and I put off so many important things, things I need to deal with that I contantly worry about. Going for walks with my dog and going to the store when I'm absolutly out of stuff are the only things that keep me going. I also use cigarettes to get me out of house and to the store, sort of like the way Wobbly uses them. Sometimes I write to do lists and I put them where I can always see them, and that helps .