How to stop ongoing bipolar dysthymia/mild depression?
I’m not doing NEARLY as well as you, but here are a few ideas – A lot of times the meds don’t work right when you have PMS, or if you are older, getting on towards menopause, there are problems. I keep track when I will have PMS because I know I will be in total relapse at that time. I avoid putting things on my calendar then (which I can do to some extent, because I am on disability for bipolar). I use a light box, one that’s REALLY bright. My doc says for many bipolar people, they get more depressed in the fall/winter. It’s best to use it about 1/2 hour in the morning, first thing when you get up. You can get the Sunray, I used that in a mental hospital, and it was very good. Don’t get the dinky little lights, they aren’t bright enough. I wrote up a list of happy things to read when I’m down, stuff like a basket of fluffy kittens, the sound of popcorn popping, the scent of jergen’s lotion, the feel of snowflakes melting on my face, or the first snowfall on pine trees, that kind of th
