Writing in a Fishbowl: Day Thirteen

10:10 PM: Today, I was wiped out by the events of yesterday. I slept into the afternoon. Played with Miitomo. Discussed politics on Facebook. Basically, I let myself spin. Somedays, I need time off from wrestling with my ADHD, depression, or ticking all day long. I need to let myself just be me, distractions and all. That doesn't mean I wave insouciantly in the direction of responsibility, and blow it a kiss. I made bank transfers. I made dinner. I made sure to bring my daughter to her Chinese medicine doctor to have her remedy tweaked. We needed to compensate for her temper outbursts and increased seizures. If I'm exhausted trying to keep up with her rollercoaster, I can't imagine how burned out she's getting with all that chaos inside her head. So I took the day off. However, once my daughter was in bed for the night, I began to feel the itch to write.4:00 AM: I'm still digging myself out of the hole I created with my shoddy research notes the other day. However, I finally began to move forward again. Only 974 words to show for all that effort, but there were facts to verify and entire passages to be rewritten. This part of the book is so much slower than the earlier bits. I need to be careful. I need to reverify my findings and avoid errors. It's all so fiddly and time-consuming. Yet, I'm pressing forward. In fact, I just finished step four of eight in Section IV, so I'm over the halfway mark. I now know I'll easily cross 10,000 words, which was my original goal.  I h...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: ADHD Journaling Writing Source Type: blogs