How Do you get through the day ?

High intelligence and bipolar do overlap, but only slightly. It’s more about shared genetics than inevitability. (ChatGPT)

Wyllow3

Finding the still point in a whirlwind is very hard, but precious. Music helps some: a quiet room, deep breathing, another (ie the calm that practices like yoga or meditation can bring (you can do gentle yoga in bed, see u tube for ‘Adrianne’ yoga in bed, I’m a yoga teacher and have trained 2 years Buddhist meditation, look for ‘compassionate meditation’ on u tube.)

Meditation, btw, may be faith based or may not, truly open to all.

I’ve got serious MH stuff: I am Bi Polar 2, and all these things, plus being unafraid of asking loudly without anger or bitterness for support, are what has helped me.

Not to mention that most physical trouble have emotional consequences, and not to be afraid of that label, Mental Health, as there is no such thing as perfect Mental Health, or ‘normal’, after all.

I begin to wonder if there is a positive correlation between high intelligence and bipolar syndrome

I love Leonard Cohen's music. Anthem is a favourite.
But right now what gets me through is listening to I watch the Sunrise by Daniel O'Donnell which reminds me of God's wonderful creation and how he is always with me.

I love the surprises nature gives. After a long absence when very ill exploring the garden was a thrill of ‘gosh, how did that manage to grow there!
I didn’t plant it….. oooo the bees like my overgrown garden.

I’d say, try to be curious. You may find, posters, how it changes all: with the internet, something catches your curiosity… anything…

Follow it up. Something inside is always going to engage you….

Caleo

whywhywhy

Look at this picture and just empty your mind and think beautiful thoughts. We are all on this journey together. Hugs.

I allow willowherb in my garden to grow right up to my windows, My name for it is "the summer clock" because it goes through all the stages of its growth right on time. At present it has its pretty fluff on it.

I've just realised that is what is growing above our fruit bushes - it seems to be growing out of a wall!

How do you get time to "feel" things, nanna? I couldn't live without an interior life ie not busy busy all the time, feelings always poke through.

I find I can’t get through all the things I want to do these days and am always pretty busy. Just as much as when I was in paid work except these are my choices. I can’t keep up with the garden, close my eyes and it is full of weeds. As for windows - forget it, I no longer clean them unless they are obviously filthy. I do vacuum and clean floors, though, not that bad !

Finding the still point in a whirlwind is very hard, but precious. Music helps some: a quiet room, deep breathing, another (ie the calm that practices like yoga or meditation can bring (you can do gentle yoga in bed, see u tube for ‘Adrianne’ yoga in bed, I’m a yoga teacher and have trained 2 years Buddhist meditation, look for ‘compassionate meditation’ on u tube.)

Meditation, btw, may be faith based or may not, truly open to all.

I’ve got serious MH stuff: I am Bi Polar 2, and all these things, plus being unafraid of asking loudly without anger or bitterness for support, are what has helped me.

Not to mention that most physical trouble have emotional consequences, and not to be afraid of that label, Mental Health, as there is no such thing as perfect Mental Health, or ‘normal’, after all.

Seconded x

I get through most days reasonably well. Just now and then I don't. But I look around me and know that I am blessed in many ways.
One thing that looms large in my mind as I get older is the beauty of this planet and how we need to look after it. The diversity of life here is fantastic; how sad it is when we lose a species. Thankfully now there are many good people trying to stop these losses.
I love Freddie Mercury singing "It's a beautiful day"... the last line, "nothing's going to stop me now"....
Sending kind thoughts to everyone who is suffering in one way or another.

Babs03

At the moment life is really hard, DH very unwell, so most of my day is spent caring for him, but I try to find a pocket of time during the day when I can just sit and be still. Nothing else. Being still had previously never struck me as a thing, but have discovered how restorative it can be.

Thinking of you, Babs03. It is the worst thing when someone you love is suffering. You feel so helpless.
I wish I could help. The most I can do is offer up a prayer.
Sending you and your husband a big virtual hug.

I pray in the morning and work through the day doing house jobs, shopping etc.

I listen to podcasts to keep the boredom at bay.

I cook different things for my evening meal and enjoy whatever company I have- go for coffee or lunch with friends, take a walk, the usual things.

In the evening I watch a little TV and listen to my bed-time stories on the phone that help me drift off.

I think I have a very good life and am grateful for it.

Every day has its joys and challenges just like everyone elses.

One day a week I go to special Pilates which provides special ways of working and another I go to Chairyoga which I thoroughly enjoy. In between I read a lot, potter about, catch up on various things, watch my favourite television programmes - and sleep!

He links, in those quite profound words, the personal and the political, without banging any specific political "drum". The humility and the defiance stand out.

If anyone wants to go further down his road, at the end of a long complex life, he then produced this song, "Healing":

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUB1O2cT2gM&list=RDMUB1O2cT2gM&start_radio=1

"O, gather up the brokenness
Bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow

The splinters that you carried
The cross you left behind

Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb...

....Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
Of cruelty or the grace
O, solitude of longing
Where love has been confined.....

O, see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart

O, troubledness concealing
An undivided love.....

O, longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O, longing of the arteries
To purify the blood....

etc

Just played the Leonard Cohen song.
I’ve always loved him and his beautiful words.

Thanks for the link Wyllow. I’ve sent it on to like minded friends xx

It depends on what my shifts are like, my dinner and breakfast are often very late at night or early hours! But a mug of PG Tips.

A pack of aah! Bisto Bangers, mash, peas and gravy.... my comfort food twice weekly!

Little cutie birdies singing.

I'm currently reading Fallen by Karin Slaughter and Lost Cause by Rachel Lynch.

Buying a gorgeous bunch of sunflowers for my bedroom windowsill. I get them from a local convenience store that I'm always in, multiple times a week, but they don't look after their flowers and plants properly, always on discount and a bit raggedy, so I rescue a lot of the poor babies that are dying a bit!

Meeting various doggies as I'm out!

I love winter and storms, so they always make my day.

Watching horror and psycho films on my laptop - last night I watched The Ashcroft Entity, also known as The Unholy, with Kelly Goudie, and also Morgan: Killer Doll with Bix Krieger.

Having a jolly good laugh!

Loads of other stuff!

Tx Caleo. Will look her up.

whywhywhy

Look at this picture and just empty your mind and think beautiful thoughts. We are all on this journey together. Hugs.

I allow willowherb in my garden to grow right up to my windows, My name for it is "the summer clock" because it goes through all the stages of its growth right on time. At present it has its pretty fluff on it.

loopyloo

Be very grateful for what you can still do.My DH has now become completely deaf. He loved music but he's amazingly philosophical about it as Beethoven was so affected.
So we are working on making life as good as possible which has challenges.

If I may float the idea of Dame Evelyn Glennie, a Scottish percussionist , who is profoundly deaf—for her ability to feel music through vibrations. Only percussion, but it may be better than no music at all for your husband

I stop introspective thinking -cycles by deliberately thinking about something that is actually interesting.

I allocate myself some time for reading the bad news in the paper then I do something else.

I'm with BlueBelle on this. I just get on with what's needing done. I read watch TV and surf the net. No naval gazing required.

Still playable

Bluebird, very good advice.

Be very grateful for what you can still do.My DH has now become completely deaf. He loved music but he's amazingly philosophical about it as Beethoven was so affected.
So we are working on making life as good as possible which has challenges.

Another, It’s A Beautiful Day fan here. My album is rather battered though after decades of being played.
Music enriches every day of my life.

youtu.be/1Cin0QzuEss?si=k-h09ZSwaptezoic Whitebird