Thursday, July 18, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
Things Are Going Pretty Good These Days
I'm feeling pretty good these days. Things are going much better at home, my relationship with my wife and step daughter is slowly improving. I love my current job, and I've made it over 14 months without any hospitalizations or other trouble.
I'm also back in therapy, seeing another psychiatrist and back on medication. I really like my new psychiatrist. He has put me on Abilify which really seems to be working.
The main thing it has done is to get rid of my most severe manic behaviors. By that I mean it has made me less paranoid and delusional. With all that gone, I feel like the better parts of my personality have more room to breathe. Consequently, I am more relaxed, pleasant and easier to talk to.
Abilify also has some antidepressant properties too so for me its a very useful, multipurpose drug which is working wonders for me with very little side effects. It took two months and several adjustments to my dosage, first I was very restless then extremely fatigued but now I finally seem to be at dosage that works for me.
Having the right job has definitely been helpful in keeping me stable. It has taken many years but I've finally found a job that fits my personality. I've been there now for a year. I have freedom, work that I enjoy doing, no customers to deal with, I can work alone, listen to music or audiobooks all day and I have the flexibility to change my schedule to accommodate my various doctor and therapist appointments.
I've also been making the most of my therapist appointments. Unlike my other therapists, this new one is more solution oriented instead of just only prodding into my childhood years for session after session with no direction or sense of how we can go about putting a plan in place that will make my life better. It also helps that I'm the one who sought out therapy unlike last time where I went because it was either therapy or move out and get divorced.
Thats all I got for now. I'm going to keep working on things and keep my mental health as my priority and hopefully have a very pleasant summer.
I'm also back in therapy, seeing another psychiatrist and back on medication. I really like my new psychiatrist. He has put me on Abilify which really seems to be working.
The main thing it has done is to get rid of my most severe manic behaviors. By that I mean it has made me less paranoid and delusional. With all that gone, I feel like the better parts of my personality have more room to breathe. Consequently, I am more relaxed, pleasant and easier to talk to.
Abilify also has some antidepressant properties too so for me its a very useful, multipurpose drug which is working wonders for me with very little side effects. It took two months and several adjustments to my dosage, first I was very restless then extremely fatigued but now I finally seem to be at dosage that works for me.
Having the right job has definitely been helpful in keeping me stable. It has taken many years but I've finally found a job that fits my personality. I've been there now for a year. I have freedom, work that I enjoy doing, no customers to deal with, I can work alone, listen to music or audiobooks all day and I have the flexibility to change my schedule to accommodate my various doctor and therapist appointments.
I've also been making the most of my therapist appointments. Unlike my other therapists, this new one is more solution oriented instead of just only prodding into my childhood years for session after session with no direction or sense of how we can go about putting a plan in place that will make my life better. It also helps that I'm the one who sought out therapy unlike last time where I went because it was either therapy or move out and get divorced.
Thats all I got for now. I'm going to keep working on things and keep my mental health as my priority and hopefully have a very pleasant summer.
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