#5 lol
have to change that!!!!
thanks for noticing.
bizi

I think my pdoc just took a course on bipolar. This is the first time in 13 years that she has asked me to do a mood chart or talked about rapid cycling 3 or more episodes in a year. She wants data to know what to do with me (she thinks I am under medicated) so am doing the best that I can documenting my days.How do I document my excitment over our trip with out appearing hypo?

goals and stats:
7-10 drinks per week.
6-8 hours of sleep a night.
3-4 mood scale.

AF= Alcohol free
Mod= 1-3 drinks
DD= 4 or more drinks in a setting

Mood values/numbers:

0=suicidal
1=depressed
2=low mood
3=baseline mood
4=a little above baseline
5=hypomanic
6=manic
7=psychotic or an episode requiring zyprexa

4-24 Mod 3 pints last day of festival!, mood= 4
4-25 AF, slept 7, mood= 3
4-26 mod 2 root beers, slept 6, mood= 3
4-27 AF, slept 6, mood= 3
4-28 AF, slept 7, mood= 3
4-29 Mod 1 pint, slept 8, mood= 3
4-30 AF

Drinks per week= 7

5-1 Mod 3 pints, slept 8, mood= 3
5-2 AF, slept 7, mood =4
5-3 AF, slept 7, mixed mood=4/2 extreme fatigue 1 hour nap
5-4 AF, slept 7, mood=3
5-5 AF, slept 6, mood =4 planning trip
5-6 Mod 3.5 beers, slept 7 , mixed/mood =4/2 extreme fatigue, 2 hour nap
5-7 mod/dd 4 beers slept 6.5, mixed/mood= 3/2 extreme fatigue again, no nap

Drinks per week= 10.5

Goals for week:
5-8 AF
5-9 AF
5-10 AF
5-11 AF
5-12 AF
5-13 Mod 2

bizi

Bizi,

When I first read that I was delighted that she is paying attention in a different way than she had before
and that maybe she had finally caught on to your specific struggles and how they manifest.

But this morning, when I read it again, it makes me laugh.


She is is helping you with the charting I believe.
And you are doing well.

M

Kay is right. If your fours start increasing, that means there is cause for concern.

M

oh well, I guess I over did it tonight.
Bought a couple of big cans of mikes hard lemonaide, 24 ounces each.
Did not realize it when I bought them they were the extra hard ones.8%
So if I do my math right,
one can is equal to 4 drinks.
I had one can to drink and was very sedated.

Took a walk around the neighborhood with my friend after a big dinner. We had ribeye steaks and asparagus/squash and mushrooms stirfry and fresh fruit: red bartlet pears, strawberries and blue berries and raspberries, with a splash of mango syrup.
(I spent $60 for steaks and fruit at whole foods).
Delicious!
I am ready for bed now. Feeling very full.
It is almost 10pm so I could start getting ready.
hmmmmm
good night all.
bizi

Take care, Bizi,

The steaks were probably good.


M

It sounds like a nice evening and an excellent meal

The meal was delicious!
my scale was not happy this am
156
what did i expect after eating a pound of beef last night?
bizi

really hard to be AF today. My car needed an oil change and they said I needed 2 new tires....sigh
So..... I even went so far as walking to the shinto sushi place next door to have some wine in their bar and talked myself out of that and order a crab roll instead which was quite yummy and cost less than one beer would have been I might add. But the best part is that I did not drink and drive and that I did not drink during the week. and did not have to come here and confess that.
so
goals still met for the day!
whew
bizi

Well done bizi !