The Inside Out

believeinrecovery:

Forgiving yourself is far more challenging than forgiving someone else because you must live with yourself and your thoughts 24/7. Despite the challenge, emotionally healthy people must have the capacity to forgive themselves when they have made a mistake.

When you…

Force yourself to do it, step by step. Finding a way to forgive yourself and forget is the only way to stay sane.

bdsupport:

This is a summary of the role played by light and dark — and sleep — in bipolar disorder, according to recent research. It’s not too hard to follow. The thing is, it leads to some very simple adjustments — and a gadget or two — that can actually “treat” bipolar disorder (especially rapid-cycling) like medications (in place of, or along with). It is “darkness therapy” rather than light therapy, as in light boxes (which never worked for me personally.) Everybody knows how key sleep is in bipolar disorder (I don’t need to be told!), so this makes a lot of sense. I’m actually more excited about this than about anything else I’ve come across recently in bipolar research. (If you want to skip right to the treatment part, which involves having enough and the right kind of darkness every night at the same time — and can maybe be done with a cheap pair of glasses — go to the end of the article. Then you can retrace the science if you want to.)

—- Kathy