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Saturday, June 21, 2025

The Process of Frustration

    I need to put this in a book. I keep getting distracted. Frustration can come fast and hard in the form of betrayal, or slow and steady in the form of burnout. 

    Betrayal can look like someone you trusted misdiagnosing you and trying to sabotage your counselor. It also look like someone you were in charge of the care of doing something like reporting you to an agency or threatening people or misusing information that they were trusted with. 

    Burnout is more of that slow and steady, day after day, why do I have to deal with these people still after all this time, the same problems, the same old BS. Pushing too hard, doing too much, getting in trouble and getting overwhelmed. 

    Maybe the hospital was right to stop the ritalin. Black Box. 

Good News

     I got some good news today. The tax service I applied to wants to interview me. I need to balance. I reopened my accounting website, applied to jobs, and I'm trying to work on my writing and this advocacy so that's a lot. I need to focus on managing my medication correctly, counseling, and these work things plus mailing in my taxes and my insurance renewal. 

    I need to go easy on the healthcare workers. I was angry about the Bipolar BS and my former Psychiatrist. But it's time to put that away for good. I have AS, mild ADHD/CAPD, and cPTSD/DID. I need to stop visiting Psych Hospitals. I need to focus. I can't afford to fool around. We can get past a misdiagnosis if we don't repeat past mistakes.

One of You

    I like Dr. Small. She works with Arson. If I have to go back, put me with Small. She listens. I did work at crisisline. I was one of you. It's hard to care. I've been so focused on understanding all this history and labels and meds. There's still hope. let me be what I can be.

Ritalin (Adult warning)

    Ritalin is one of the many stimulants I've been prescribed. It can increase focus tremendously. Side effects include loss of appetite (and loss of weight), nausea, anger, and apparently suicidal fantasies. It was after having some frustration with brain fog/dissociation that i took one, flew into a flight of anger and started picturing buying a gun, going to MIP, and putting a bullet in my head in front of north wing. Blackbox warning.

Past Reflections