[…] Your ongoing capacity to execute daily living activities without incident is always a good measure of how well you are managing your mania symptoms. For example, someone eating, bathing, sleeping and coping with life stressors is on the road to self-managing their symptoms. The more life tasks you meet without incident, the less your […]
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[…] a time when we laughed together, in the car, on the way to New York, when she pretended to be a puppet who organizes the pantry by eating all the food inside of it. I shared the time when she’d written to me that I am much of what she would like to be; […]
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[…] A third person at their table added that their father had high blood pressure, determined to be a symptom of heart disease — and now he is eating better and exercising. There are more than a billion people who have high blood pressure. But did you know that there are almost a billion people […]
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[…] a month with his group home manager and twice a year with this treatment team. I manage his doctor and dentist appointments. I fuss about hygiene and eating habits. Occasionally, there have been set backs and my involvement has become essential. Matthew had a period of homelessness, and I spent weeks finding emergency housing […]
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