For destroying things, I recommend your closest shooting range. Even better if there is some land where you have enough room, you can shake up generic soda cans (diet is fizziest), set them down, and shoot them with a rifle. That's really cathartic.
Have you ever had a day where you want to just get into the car and just keep driving? Just leave everyone and everything behind?
Yeah. When I'm driving from the suburbs out to Seattle to run errands or whatever, I get on I-5 and think to myself "I've got my laptop, a change of clothes, and the necessary medications. I could just head south and I could be back in San Francisco in 14 hours."
Once I got almost as far as Tacoma before I regained my better judgement, turned around and went home. I'll get my chance to move back to SF, I don't need to just show up, go to Death Guild and be like "So! I just got back from Seattle, who wants to let me crash on their couch?!"
When I'm having severe manic episodes, I drive. I once put my 18 month old son in the car at 7 p.m. and drove to Florida. Haven't been that bad since then. I just drive around aimlessly now until the feeling passes... Or I run out of gas...
I'm fortunate that I don't get manic episodes. Or, rather, my brain chemistry is broken so that "manic" episodes are such that they max out at what is "normal" for most people.
like, if you think of it like a graph with a wave on it, the peaks are at 0 and the rest of the wave is down in the negative portion of the graph.
Here's an interesting concept, darlin'...instead of trying to be super Mom, and the perfect wife, and the perfect employee, try to learn to use this word:
NO.
You do not have to do everything. When you get to this point, make someone else take the kids and demand you get some time for yourself. Don't let OTHER PEOPLE micromanage your life!
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For destroying things, I recommend your closest shooting range. Even better if there is some land where you have enough room, you can shake up generic soda cans (diet is fizziest), set them down, and shoot them with a rifle. That's really cathartic.
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Dad has the guns. Wait. My pool is set up where the range usually is. Damn.
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Yeah. When I'm driving from the suburbs out to Seattle to run errands or whatever, I get on I-5 and think to myself "I've got my laptop, a change of clothes, and the necessary medications. I could just head south and I could be back in San Francisco in 14 hours."
Once I got almost as far as Tacoma before I regained my better judgement, turned around and went home. I'll get my chance to move back to SF, I don't need to just show up, go to Death Guild and be like "So! I just got back from Seattle, who wants to let me crash on their couch?!"
Maybe a bit more stability is in order ;)
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Haven't been that bad since then. I just drive around aimlessly now until the feeling passes... Or I run out of gas...
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like, if you think of it like a graph with a wave on it, the peaks are at 0 and the rest of the wave is down in the negative portion of the graph.
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NO.
You do not have to do everything. When you get to this point, make someone else take the kids and demand you get some time for yourself. Don't let OTHER PEOPLE micromanage your life!
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I am just in a funk and I need to pull myself up by the bootstraps and get over it.
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