My Highs & Lows of the Past Year:
Well, being bipolar I have a LOT of highs and lows in one month, let alone one year, but let's see if I can come up with a general overview.
Lows:
- General battles with my mental illness. (This is the source of nearly all my lows.)
- The accident. (We miss you, Mike.)
- Feeling inadequate or small in certain situations.
- General stress from certain people in my life.
- Three extreme allergic reactions that were just AWFUL.
- A real scare in the first part of the year about my HIV treatment. We were worried about my dwindling options.
- Stress involving my aunt's situation at the start of the year.
- Struggling with great feelings of self loathing due to physical side effects of my medication.
Highs:
- My aunt's return home in March!
- Leaving my awful medical care and finding both a decent psychiatrist and a great HIV specialist.
- Finding a medication regimen that has made me undetectable!
- Having more energy than I have in as long as I can remember because of the medications.
- Finally starting serious work on my memoirs and novel.
- Locating my half brother who was estranged from me for my entire life on Facebook.
- Connecting with my father's side of the family more than I have in years and years.
- Finding my spiritual path.
- Adding a few body modifications - nipples & tattooing.
- Finding my power.
- Getting a Kindle. Yes, that may seem silly, but if you read like me it's amazingly important.
- Having a bit of success with my Etsy shop. It makes me feel great when people like my work.
That's really all I can come up with off the top of my head... I'm sure there are many more things to add to each category, but it's hard to remember every event that transpired over the course of a year.
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