new ways

[GeorgiaAnnie]

that time of year...
anybody started a new way???

Ann

[GeorgiaAnnie]

I agree.
Hoping and making 2009 better..
Ann

[monkeyc]

I would not make resolutions if I was not bipolar let alone if :)

I have trouble making my mind up on a good day - Im just looking for a better year than last year which could not be hard from where I sit.

[LeftCoastChick]

Yep like others, I'm not making any resolutions, because most don't end up being done, and then we beat ourselves up.

Like dippy and many here, we're being realistic.  I have te same mantra, "One day at a time".  I only want to see myself growing from my experience of my diagnosis, and retraining my brain.  I'm starting a new program on the 9th called Changeways. Basically retraining the brain from thinking/acting Negatively. I'm told there is a high success rate if you are willing to work at it. My belief is there is only going up from where I'm at. :)

[dippy1]

One day at a time.........that's my new mantra

[bernie40]

Hoping the new meds work.  Try and listen to my family when they tell me I'm hypomanic.  Attempt to get a good routine and get well and stay there.

[LetaB]

  All I have right now is the hope that this year will be a hell of a lot superior to the last one. I am what I am. I intend on being proactive with my doctors and working to get my medications right. I want to be a very different person than what I've been. I'll try to be less self centered and introspective. We'll see how it goes.

[ILADVOCATE]

Not sure what you mean by a new way. Mostly for myself its been finishing recovery for my psychiatric disability and continuing to seek treatment for my physical disability and accepting what can't be changed from it and advocating for other people. I guess the only thing that I would say has to be a change of thinking in myself is not to look back on the people who put me down for being "crazy" all these years before recovery and realize they were hiding a psychiatric disability of their own and in knowing that instead of judging them back be supportive of their recovery. Its hard to eliminate all negative thinking when its been directed at you for so many years especially from people who were wrong to judge you to begin with but I would believe that's something no one should engage in so I can't descend to the negative thinking of those around me (as in people I know in person offsite) but it can be hard at times.