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How Often Do You Have Good Days?

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I'm so hard on myself. I always think I could have done more. I guess a part of me thinks that to label a day as good means that I have low standards when I want to do so much more in life.

I can see that. On my first good day I'll just soak it up and look around around in amazement. I literally don't care what happens. It's still a good day. But then I find on subsequent good days I'll start to feel more normal life concerns.
 
I've learned the hard way, many times over, that for where I'm at right now, it's often not helpful to label my days, or my state of wellbeing, or anything else about my journey, more than is absolutely necessary. My internal saboteur is still very active and often comes along to undermine my good days with shaming cries of "yeah but still not good enough...", or to cruelly remind me the next day that I'd been doing so much better yesterday, so what happened today... etc.

I realise this is just my own personal fragility at the moment, but honestly, I try to just take each day, and each moment, as it comes, to focus non-evaluatively on the feelings and experiences I have at any given time, and to enjoy the better feelings and experiences while they're here, without forming too many conclusions about them or what they mean.

We all define good and bad differently, as well we would, because we all value different things in our lives and recoveries. Of course some days are better than others, and sometimes there are obvious reasons for this that I can identify, and sometimes my world just hums along a bit more smoothly for reasons known only to the internal workings of my brain.

It's nice, carefully, to sometimes take quiet note of observations such as "I seem to be a bit more functional thesedays than I was a couple of months ago..." etc, but as I said, I do try to avoid anything more specific than that.

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I had a rough week, last week. I am doing so much better. I am having some good days this week. I will be busy each day this week.
 
I've tried to research this topic and it seems good days are recognized. On this site Anthony mentioned that PTSD can go into remission. Good days almost seem like mini-remission days (days with zero symptoms).
 
I have had two days like this and am a bit stunned. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop or think I was imagining it all along . Whole lot of other stuff happening that isn't so great but PTSD symptoms almost entirely missing. :cautious:
 
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