Ooh! Shiny!
The main annoyance that is occurring since I am currently off my meds is that I’ve been having very brief dizzy spells. I also have even less of an attention span than usual. It’s hard to settle down and read books or web sites. Disorganized, forgetful, etc. My mood is very good, though. Except for when it isn’t. It happens suddenly, without warning, and goes away suddenly, too, and the rest of the time I am quite peppy.
It turns out I shouldn’t have been sulking about my one-day weekends, because next weekend I personally get a zero-day weekend. It’s not as if I have to work eight hours every day, but still, it’s just nice to have an entire day where you know you don’t have to be at work for any of it.
I am thinking that I should be more Organized and learn how to Manage My Time, so maybe this will be my newest obsession that I will research, and maybe I will try systems and labelling and colour-coding and be very gung-ho for a month and then forget about it. Or maybe it will work. You never know.
May 27th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
My current obsession is going shopping. Don’t worry I have a cash budget.
Last week it was reading blogs.
The week before that it was reformatting all my blogs.
I guess it keeps me busy so I won’t go crazy. =p
May 28th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Shopping was my obsession the week before last week. Well, it’s always one of my obsessions, but it was my major obsession then. I even bought some clothes, and I hate shopping for clothes. (I like shopping for books, craft supplies, CDs, DVDs, food, toys, and completely useless decorative items. In other words, basically everything except clothing.) When I start buying clothes I don’t need, that’s a bad sign, because normally I HATE clothes shopping with a fiery passion.
Staying busy and not going crazy are good things.
I accidentally typed “busty” instead of “busy” before I fixed it.
May 28th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
I always wonder what I’d be like without my meds since it’s been so long now. I like to think I’d be all creative and happy, but it’s not likely. You sound like you’re okay, but still I want to tell you to take care!
May 29th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Sounds as if you are doing ok, a bit hypo-manic but maybe not…nothing wrong with creative energy.
I hope you are able to get a day to yourself before too long. I know what you mean, just one day of “me time” to catch your breath can be a lot. Take care of you.
As for obsessions….here is one for you, since we were discussing technology like digital cameras…..why can I not fix my wireless router connection?! LOL!
Take care, I’ll catch up with everyone later this week, I hope. Yeah….that time for me thing, I’m planning it in advance too.
May 29th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Polly,
Just want to check and see if you’re okay?
Susan
May 30th, 2007 at 12:27 am
Yup, I’m okay. I actually meant to post on Tuesday (it’s shortly after midnight and therefore no longer Tuesday now), but before I knew it, it was time to go to work. Lately I am no good at remembering anything and always perilously close to being late for things. Lots of people have cognitive deficits while they’re on Epival/Depakote, and although I wasn’t having those problems when I was actually on it, I’m sure as hell stupid when I’m in withdrawal from it!