Posted by Larry Hoover on June 9, 2006, at 9:11:44
In reply to What if I have cancer? *trigger*, posted by Deneb on June 7, 2006, at 19:32:42
> I'm afraid. :-(
But I thought you were cured, only last week.
Deneb, your mood is highly driven by what you experience. Your mood follows your experience, to the minute. You are a "totally in the moment" person. But that's a habit you've taught yourself.
When you face something scary, Oh My God ! ! !, you are scared.
The part you don't do well, yet, is in linking your day-to-day mood cycles into patterns. There *are* trends, in there, but it's all so confusing to you that you don't even try to link them up. It's just too much information for your brain to find the common thread that we observers, out here, can easily see. We can simplify. Your challenge is that you can't do that very well, yet, on your own.
But you can learn how to do it. You're quite intelligent enough to manage this thing I'm going to suggest you do. You just have to promise yourself to do it, and to do it honestly.
Start collecting data about how you feel, and when you feel it, and later put it on a graph. Or, better yet, graphs plural. Or, simpler still, mark it right on the graph(s). You could carry a graph(s) around with you. Easily.
There would ideally be a variety of simple scales, the various continuums of living. Happy to sad, energetic to "I'm a slug today". Scales from 1 to 10. Different times in a single day, too. Not happy all day, perhaps. Happy mornings, sad nights? However you want to set it up, also graph your sleep time. When you went to bed, and how long you were there.
And I guarantee you, you'll be happy to discover that there is trend data in there. You can make this life a better experience. Just by learning about your trends.
You'd clearly see the effects of the medication, for example. It's very clear, from over here.
What you feel right now is not forever. You just haven't convinced yourself otherwise, yet.
Lar
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