July 3 Wednesday Having to really watch my brain. 🧠 My brain can come up with the craziest stuff. My brain could get the Nobel prize for fiction, honestly. I have a son who has bipolar disorder. And if you guys know about bipolar disorder--there are all sorts of things that go along with it. When one's brain is impaired/offline, one does not make the best choices. Let's leave it at that. For your info, there is a great yourtube channel that deals with Bipolar Disorder. "Polar Warrior". A great book is, "The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide". He is taking his meds (thank goodness), eating what I cook (keto), sees his therapist and psychiatrist (he likes them, Thank God), and getting his sleep cycle under control. I am noticing that he is having weird mouth movements. This is his tell that he is on the cusp of mania---> psychotic break. Last psychotic break was intense. Being around someone who is in active psychosis is exhausting. Oh dear. 😱 Hopefully, his brain will settle. I am going to tell him to use his blue light blocking glasses and get some extra sleep. So my brain is wanting to go to worse case scenario. My brain does this because it thinks that coming up with every worse case scenario will keep everyone safe. It just wants to help. When my brain likes to help out and go to hypothetical hell (you know, the "what if...."), I have to gently rein it in. I have to remind it of the facts-- we have meds, he will call his therapist, he will call the psychiatrist, there is psychiatric hospital closeby, this is the nature of the disease, relapses happen, it is not anybody's fault, we have done nothing wrong, we have a plan in place. We can figure this out. Facts are better than reaching for ice cream, peanut M&Ms, wine, ...... You get my drift. Thank goodness I know how brains work. Thank goodness I have the awareness of talking back nicely to my brain and sticking to the facts. Thank goodness I have the tools to help me and my son. Chris Palmer's book, "Brain Energy", is very good. We got this. 💪🏼

Posted by Pedidiva at 2025-07-03 12:53:59 UTC