Stuck Inside And Spiraling

[GreyStreet]

so I've noticed a few things that really help me get by in my day to day without those pesky "ptsd symptoms" taking over, one of which is a good routine. Now I'm still working on this and do not have it down by far, but one thing that I'm realizing helps is having a place to go in the morning. Friday I felt overwhelmed and triggered in the morning and couldn't go to work, and this morning my office is also closed this morning due to a snow storm. I've been technically not working since Thursday (even though I should really do some work from home ) and I feeel not so great this morning . I've been trying to determine why this might be since I had an ok weekend and I realized it's because I haven't been sticking to that annoyingly helpful routine. I both hate that I need that structure to feel good, productive, calm, tethered, etc and love that I know it helps. I just wanted to share this... I'm now going to avidly avoid Facebook , stretch get ready for the day (despite it being blizzardish conditions and there being no where to go really) and maybe slowly trek to the library.

I hope you're all taking care of yourselves the best you can :) that's all we can do.

If there are any suggestions for good routines that help feel free to post below !

 

[Friday]

I can't even manage a single routine, at the moment, but when I was doing better I had a small handful of them :D

Work/ Weekend/ Day Off are examples of 3 of them.

A few others were : Evening out, Sudden Change of Plans, Sick Kid, Snowboarding.

These were all repeating events, some regular & some not, that happened often enough that I could build a structure around them. Any period of time I could build a structure around? <swoon> Infinitely easier.