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Mornings

schizaphonic said:
first of all, move out of Melbourne! nah just kidding with you the weather sucks, but the culture and 'scene' make it worth it. Develop a plan through safe experimentation and research, you will find something that suits you :)
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Lol yeah, Melbourne is well known for it's continuous awesome weather 8) At least nowadays I actually live a couple of hours outta Melbourne and the weather isn't bad most of the time, cos crappy weather does effect my mood heaps. I just don't like telling people exactly where I live lol
 
^Yeah i was born in Essendon hospital, (back when it actually existed) but moved to Perth in my teens, i miss the food!!!!!!!!
 
My inbox is empty now, finally managed to do a message dump onto iPad after lotsof pissingn around. Sorry for typos I am shaking like a shitting dog :@ it's starting to annoy me now, no amount of meditation has worked
 
^Yeah, i remember, before i got skeletal muscle relaxants, i couldn't even walk straight. (i would appear from the outside to be a profoundly retarded person) that was only for 6 months, but i was so embarrassed
 
I wake up and before my thoughts have kicked in, I affirm to myself "I want to base my experience of today around Love, Faith, Trust and Gratitude" I was explained by someone that affirmations like this is directing your subconscious for how you want to experience the day. Over the years people build up programs and patterns. The good thing is they can be changed! If I didn't take action on changing my thought patterns like this I would slip into basing my day on 'Hate, Fear, distrust and ingratitude!! (pretty much!) - as that is how I had programmed myself over the years. It is not like I set out to do this, but in addiction it happened as a way of coping with my environment. There is comfort in the familiarity of old thought patterns - so it doesn't come easy changing them! I can truly say I have benefited so much from this sort of stuff!

Also I try to read a bit from the recovery literature (daily meditations book) and listen to a 10 minute guided meditation on an app on my phone (meditation oasis).

This sort of stuff really sets me up for the day!
 
Use medicine as needed really. I also have some snack items by the side of the bed in case I wake up super nauseous (happens at least 2x per week). I also like to have water near by as I'll be thirsty when I wake up.

I also put on some enjoyable music as soon as I am in a good mood. :D
 
For me I enjoy cooking. Creating something I get to enjoy satisfies me and provides a boost in self esteem so waking up and making a nice hearty breakfast of eggs, toast, bacon/sausage, and a glass of juice really is a pick me up. After I eat I take a nice hot shower and kinda day dream as I wash up. After my nice 30 minute relaxing hot shower I throw on my clothes for the day, put on my kicks and go for a walk around my block, smoke a couple squares and when I get home I'm in a great mood for the day. Basically for me its a good hot meal, hot shower, nice peaceful walk and a cig and im ready for the day.
 
i'd love to be able to eat that at any time lol

but unfortunately for me i can't eat often which sucks.
 
I eat like that maybe twice or three times a week. Then I don't eat til dinner which is my smallest meal. I try to be healthy. Except being a smoker blows :P
 
my stomach and digestive tract are fooked from my condition and meds so I eat very rarely.

my morning routine went to shit today when I was practically sexual assaulted by my dr, bastards!!
 
While I am a bi-lat upper amputee with 50% 3rd and 4th degree burns the morning is in fact the toughest time. I dont sleep well anyway, and the night for some reason is less painful. Why? Dont know.
 
I have been free of heroin for 4 years and since then I have what I like to call "the Morning Blues". Just a general depressed feeling. What I have done is I have a diary that each night before I go to sleep I write down all the things I managed to accomplish for that day, no matter how small. Then I also write down all the bad things that have occured. In the morning if I'm experiencing the blues, I'll read through the diary and it makes me feel better because the good things in my life have over come the bad.
 
i have a pain and mental health diary that I have to write in every couple of hours, well i say write, i can't write anymore so i tap in it instead lol
 
I also write down what I did for the day, it keeps me straight as to what I did day to day. It is amazing to have something you can go back and look at 2 days, 2 weeks and even 2 years ago and see what you felt, did or felt on that day.
 
Dave said:
Maybe a voice recorder might be a better idea? Or speech to text?
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i have dragon talk and a headset but i am badly stuttering because of the pain and excess adrenaline so that doesn't work right now, i do use it normally though and my program to read things out to me when i cannot read properly from the dyslexia, stupid pain relapses.
 
donnie080208 said:
i hate the mornings wake up panicky, and fearful because of terrible dreams, also have no routine and lived an "old man in a nursing home life" for past 8 years
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you could do with following some of my tips, i feel much better since employing them in sept/oct took a while but it's definitely helping. I am also like an old woman of 120 with alzheimer's and parkinson's lol

hugs hun <3 I can inbox you them if you like?
 
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