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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Another Sanguine Saturday

It feels like I'm not moving forward. It feels like I'm still just treading water, that that's all I am ever doing. Am I really still not achieving anything?


Success Stories:
I Faced my Fear by going to my Karakan appointment and meeting my new Karakan support worker on Monday.

I made the choice NOT to get drunk or self harm that night and instead I took some extra medications so that I could go to sleep earlier (all within prescribed limits and, admittedly, helped by my still being unwell).

I made the choice to Face my Fear and go to my appointment on Wednesday to get my eyes tested. I also made the choice to reward myself afterwards with some good food and good friends, but when I started feeling (mentally) unwell after, I used my skills to make the choice to go home instead of staying so that I didn't upset my friends.

On Thursday I may not have managed to avoid self harm or alcohol, but I did manage to delay both for quite some time from when the urge first hit.

Although I haven't been using PLEASE skills as much as I maybe 'should' have done this week, I did do some things for my physical health needs that I would otherwise not have done.



Gratitudes List/Things that make me happy:
Giraffes.
Packages in the mail.
Music.
Taking photographs.
Tea.
Hot chocolate.



Cheer-leading statements:
Yeah, I'm not perfect. So what? Nor is anyone else.
I'm doing the best I can with what I have to work with.
Every day will end, even the harder ones, and with the new day will come a new start, a new chance.
I have the 'toolkit' to cope with anything that comes along.




Take care of yourselves until next time, and may we all find our own small fences along the way.

6 comments:

  1. I'm so behind in my DBT it's not funny. I haven't done any homework for a bit and feel like I'm getting nowhere fast. I like that you like giraffes :-)
    *hugs*
    Sarah

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  2. It sounds like, in spite of some difficulty, you're making more healthy choices than unhealthy. Keep trying.

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  3. Thank you both.

    Sairs: Giraffes are my favourite animal ever! I love just about every animal ever, but giraffes are just so amazing and special to me.

    Matthew: I wouldn't say that the healthy/unhealthy ratio is that much in favour of healthy, to be totally honest -- but I can say that the number of healthy choices is up from where I was a few years ago. Maybe at the moment that's enough.

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  4. I like your positive affirming perspectives. I think it would help me a lot to see things that way. I too had to go to the doctor this week, which was really hard for me, but I only saw it as a hard experinece and didn't really pat myself on the back for having done it.
    Thanks for showing a different way of seeing thing.

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  5. "It feels like I'm not moving forward. It feels like I'm still just treading water, that that's all I am ever doing. Am I really still not achieving anything?"

    people who arent moving dont have success stories, gratitudes, and cheerleading statements.

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  6. Congrats on the strides you've made. Despite how you may feel, it seems to me that you are moving forward. :)

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