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Mark is working on a journal. He is working on the daytimer organizer I always thought I could have, but he's actually programming it. I'm so embarrassed that he's so much further along with it than I ever was.
It will have spaces to put notes, of course, on dreams, events, whatever, but it will have spaces to monitor behaviors, moods, weather, etc.
Not necessarily what most people would want to do. But if this works out as a general program, it would be a good thing, I think for people with all sorts of emotional or mental issues.
Mark and I wanted it because, as depressives, we often find the positive habits and routines we set up falling apart when we're under stress. How much is weather? Medication? Diet? Sleep? Time of day? Did I fight with you because of built up resentment, or because I have PMS? We both wanted to monitor the things that MIGHT affect 'good' days and bad, and see what was the most effective, the most useful.
This about self-improvement: Unless you are already this person, no matter what you do, no matter what you think, no matter how you prepare, you will not get up tomorrow an hour early, run 2 miles, make healthy vegetarian (or whatever your passion is) food, drink eight glasses of water, floss your teeth and call your mother. You might eat peanut butter and celery instead of cheesecake.
If you need routine, or habit, or discipline, that's easy to say but nobody tells you how to build it. They expect you pick it up from your environment, I guess.
In this respect, I feel like Charlie Brown trick-or-treating: I got a rock (Or, alternatively, I gotta rock. Which, I do.)
It will have spaces to put notes, of course, on dreams, events, whatever, but it will have spaces to monitor behaviors, moods, weather, etc.
Not necessarily what most people would want to do. But if this works out as a general program, it would be a good thing, I think for people with all sorts of emotional or mental issues.
Mark and I wanted it because, as depressives, we often find the positive habits and routines we set up falling apart when we're under stress. How much is weather? Medication? Diet? Sleep? Time of day? Did I fight with you because of built up resentment, or because I have PMS? We both wanted to monitor the things that MIGHT affect 'good' days and bad, and see what was the most effective, the most useful.
This about self-improvement: Unless you are already this person, no matter what you do, no matter what you think, no matter how you prepare, you will not get up tomorrow an hour early, run 2 miles, make healthy vegetarian (or whatever your passion is) food, drink eight glasses of water, floss your teeth and call your mother. You might eat peanut butter and celery instead of cheesecake.
If you need routine, or habit, or discipline, that's easy to say but nobody tells you how to build it. They expect you pick it up from your environment, I guess.
In this respect, I feel like Charlie Brown trick-or-treating: I got a rock (Or, alternatively, I gotta rock. Which, I do.)
