You always work best in your peak hours, but when is that really? For some people, it may be the moment they wake up, and for night owls, it can be straight into the A.M. I've been on a "Mood Stabilizing" medication for the past month dues to my depressive swings. In many ways it has opened my eyes on how I expend my energy and what I can do to better utilize the amount of it I'm able to muster on any given day.
What I Was Previously Like
Before being prescribed Lamictal by my physician, I would have immense creative highs, but would be met with devasting lows—sometimes for weeks on end. What a normal day looked like when these episodes would occur, was that I would take about 4 hours, just to get out of bed. When I was behind on even one assignment for class, I would give up entirely, deciding that I was a failure before I even gave the chance to try.
The First Week and The Cinderella Curfew
It took a few days for the stabilizers to begin working, and to be honest, it was sort of wonderful. I could do homework for 10 hours straight without a care in the world, but soon enough, I began getting used to them. Normally, your doctor would continually increase your dosage until the episodes ceased.
I cried hard one of the days, and lost it to an unproductive sleep instead. On the other days up until the week and a half mark, I had to be in bed by 8 or 9 pm, or the meds would have worn off, and I would spend the majority of the evening miserable. There was still the good side of getting more rest, but feeling like my energy was in some ways even more limited than before, made me feel somewhat apprehensive overall about this method.
Up Until Last Week
I felt mostly okay again. However, I went up from 25 mg to 100 mg. I realized that the low energy bursts are still there. Could I have been going about this the wrong way all along? There were many things still draining my energy on a regular basis. Although I normally share on my other social media, I started to entertain significantly less those who wanted to have ongoing conversations throughout the day.
It has always been hard for me to focus on one thing at a time. I would always choose school first and foremost as my first priority, to give myself some direction. Another thing I've realized was that while I normally listened to music while I studying, I could cut my homework time in almost half (in terms of hours), if I didn't listen to anything at all. I didn't have to cue or search for any song. I revived my kitchen timer to further mitigate the wandering of my mind.
I gave a little more priority to where it was needed, and the episodes are beginning to become lessened due to it. I'm not leaking my energy as hard as before, but I feel that there are more ways that I have yet to explore on keeping my energy levels consistent throughout the days.
What do you think? Do you have a method that keeps you going until the day's done? If so, please share it below so I can improve my own strategy as well!
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