This week for the most part felt pretty good. My therapist had suggested that I try getting back in the habit of doing small, meditative tarot readings for myself and I felt that my Daily Draw series fit the bill for it nicely and since it was for the blog I figured it would help me stay accountable for it. What I didn’t expect was for it to make any quick changes. But it did. Nothing dramatic. Just small steps type of thing but those add up, don’t they? First I started doing the readings by setting my computer desktop to show a daily slideshow of a tarot card. Then I started writing a phrase about the card that came to mind in my journal. Now I’m writing a full journal entry about that card on the blog. This week I started linking to those entries in the mood tracker. Which in turn started helping me to remember to document the stuff I want to be doing and keeping track of. Started setting goals again. This is the first week in a long time that I have felt so close to normal. I hope this is a sign of progress and not a delusion.
Mood Score Key:
Sliding Hypomania = 1 ~ Hypomania = 2 ~ Mania = 3 ~ Baseline (My Normal) = 0
Sliding Depression = -1 ~ Depression = -2 ~ Severe Depression = -3 ~ M = Mixed State
Energy Score Key:
Low = -1 ~ Normal = 0 ~ High = 1
Irritation Score Key:
None = 0 ~ Mild = 1 ~ Moderate = 2 ~ Severe = 3
Anxiety Score Key:
None = 0 ~ Mild = 1 ~ Moderate = 2 ~ Severe = 3
Migraine Score Key:
None = 0 ~ Mild = 1 ~ Moderate = 2 ~ Severe = 3 ~ Extreme = 4 ~ Aura Present = A ~ Normal Headache Pain or Pressure = h
Joint Pain Score Key:
None = 0 ~ Mild = 1 ~ Moderate = 2 ~ Severe = 3 ~ Extreme = 4 ~ Tingling = T
Sleep Quality Score Key:
Bad = -1 ~ Normal = 0 ~ Great = 1
Special Notes for the Week
Menses Start Date: ~
Weigh-In at Med Clinic: ~
Sunday ~ June 05, 2022
Mood: 0 ~ Energy: 0 ~ Irritation: 0 ~ Anxiety: 0 ~ Migraine: 0 ~ Joint Pain: 0
Hours of Sleep:
Sleep Quality: 0
Exercise Activity & Time
Meds Taken
Meals
Today’s Feelings
Notes
Monday ~ June 06, 2022
Mood: 0 ~ Energy: 0 ~ Irritation: 0 ~ Anxiety: 0 ~ Migraine: 0 ~ Joint Pain: 0
Hours of Sleep:
Sleep Quality: 0
Exercise Activity & Time
Meds Taken
Meals
Today’s Feelings
Notes
Tuesday ~ June 07, 2022
Mood: 0 ~ Energy: 0 ~ Irritation: 0 ~ Anxiety: 0 ~ Migraine: 0 ~ Joint Pain: 0
Hours of Sleep:
Sleep Quality: 0
Exercise Activity & Time
Meds Taken
Meals
Today’s Feelings
Notes
Wednesday ~ June 08, 2022
Mood: 0 ~ Energy: 0 ~ Irritation: 0 ~ Anxiety: 0 ~ Migraine: 0 ~ Joint Pain: 0
Hours of Sleep: bed at ?, up at 10:30am – total hours: ?
Sleep Quality: 0
Exercise Activity & Time
Meds Taken
Meals
Today’s Feelings
Notes
Thursday ~ June 09, 2022
Mood: 0 ~ Energy: 0 ~ Irritation: 0 ~ Anxiety: 0 ~ Migraine: 0 ~ Joint Pain: 0
Hours of Sleep:
Sleep Quality: 0
Exercise Activity & Time
Meds Taken
Meals
Today’s Feelings
Notes
Friday ~ June 10, 2022
Mood: 0 ~ Energy: 0 ~ Irritation: 0 ~ Anxiety: 0 ~ Migraine: 0 ~ Joint Pain: 0
Hours of Sleep: bed at 5am, up at 1:30pm – 7.5 hours total
Sleep Quality: 0
Exercise Activity & Time
Meds Taken
- 75mg Topamax @ 2pm
- 20mg Propranolol @ 2pm
- 250mg Depakote @ 2pm
- 1 multivitamin @ 2pm
- 75mg Topamax @ 4:30am
- 20mg Propranolol @ 4:30am
- 250mg Depakote @ 4:30am
Meals
- lots of fruit
- popcorn
- twizzlers
- soda
- coffee
Today’s Feelings
Notes
- Daily Draw entry
- went to see the new Jurassic Park movie with Iron Knight and his cousin and her son
- it wasn’t one that was on my radar, but I enjoyed it quite a bit and glad that I was invited
Saturday ~ June 11, 2022
Mood: 0 ~ Energy: 0 ~ Irritation: 0 ~ Anxiety: 0 ~ Migraine: 0 ~ Joint Pain: 0
Hours of Sleep: bed at 4:30am, up at 11:30am – 7 hours total
Sleep Quality: 0
Exercise Activity & Time
Meds Taken
- 75mg Topamax @ 11:30am
- 20mg Propranolol @ 11:30am
- 1 multivitamin @ 11:30am
- PM meds missed
Meals
- coffee
Today’s Feelings
Notes
- Daily Draw entry
- spent the day with Iron Knight visiting friends
- was a good day and felt like old times