wherein Liz considers to-do lists
Jan. 31st, 2018 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingWhen I got back on Celexa this past fall, my nurse practitioner recommended that I also find a therapist to see every now and then, mostly for help brainstorming and troubleshooting coping methods for when my executive dysfunction/utter lack of motivation gets especially bad.
Ironically, executive dysfunction and general dislike of making phone calls on my own behalf have conspired to keep me from finding a therapist... but I'm not sure I need one anymore, because now that medication has returned color and meaning to the world, my previously established coping methods are working again.
I can actually get through most of the stuff on my to-do lists! I am going to sleep at less ridiculous hours! I have even managed various small chores that weren't on my to-do lists, and which weren't avoidance tactics!
In fact, I not only continued writing and using my daily to-do lists, I made a monthly to-do list and got all but one item done.
Am I doing as much as I'd like to in an ideal world? No. But progress is progress, and I am pretty darn proud of what I've managed so far. :)
Ironically, executive dysfunction and general dislike of making phone calls on my own behalf have conspired to keep me from finding a therapist... but I'm not sure I need one anymore, because now that medication has returned color and meaning to the world, my previously established coping methods are working again.
I can actually get through most of the stuff on my to-do lists! I am going to sleep at less ridiculous hours! I have even managed various small chores that weren't on my to-do lists, and which weren't avoidance tactics!
In fact, I not only continued writing and using my daily to-do lists, I made a monthly to-do list and got all but one item done.
Am I doing as much as I'd like to in an ideal world? No. But progress is progress, and I am pretty darn proud of what I've managed so far. :)
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Date: 2018-02-01 10:58 am (UTC)And life tends to throw so much unexpected crap at us...
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Date: 2018-02-01 03:04 pm (UTC)The beautiful thing about life is that it just keeps on going, new things every day. This is also the annoying and occasionally terrible thing about life. *wry*
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Date: 2018-02-04 04:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-02-04 06:47 pm (UTC)