Being pro-active about this fall & its usual troubles

Its well-known (unfortunately) that fall is a hard time for us. October is the usual downfall. All summer, and into September, everyone is doing ok. Then October 1st hits, with its anniversary of the 1st date, and things quickly plummet downhill. Then comes self-hate, losing weight, falling back into bad habits like cutting and starving and switching more often, and by November, we're all a mess.It takes until March or so to straighten things out. Lather, rinse, and repeat each October, year after year.
Well this year we are doing everything we can think of do prevent the downfall and have been working hard on that.
Work is crazy insane all of the time and we're all completely stressed out. But on the weekends, we sleep as much as possile. We are making time to go to the dietician who is trying to help keep us on track. Therapy is hard but even Jo is not giving up and keeps trying to reframe her thoughts. Something intrestesting that we read in the newspaper yesterday-- that when you're trying to give up a bad habit or addiction, you're not so much as giving it up as ESCAPING IT- that helped us think of this in a new way. Also, we're paying more attention to our sensory integration problems and doing more about it such as getting a weighted blanket and reading books on Sensory Integration Disorder (I'll write more about that in another post) to find things to help ourselves out like we help our students, which also calm us down, especially Mae and Jo. We also may get another light box (one of those full spectrum ones) like we used to have a long time ago to help us through the long winter nights to give us more exposure to sunlight... when we had one before, it helped a lot.
So those are just some of the things that will hopefully help this fall and keep us from falling so far backwards. This year we want to move forwards and make it out of this mess.

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1. Posted by keepers on October 10, 2006