Hello! Welcome to The Bipolar Parent’s Saturday Morning Mental Health Check In: Holiday Travel Edition!
Are you going anywhere for the holidays? Do you want to go where you’re going? If you’re not traveling anywhere, and you could travel anywhere, where would you go? Would you take your kids with you, or would you like a vacation all by yourself? Let me know in the comments!
My Week
My week has been… productive. My husband took our toddler across the country by himself to visit his mother, so I’ve been left with our older son, who has school until Friday. We’ll be joining my husband this afternoon, so by the time you read this, I’m probably on a plane, haha.
I used the time I had this week to deep clean the house, write several blog posts, sleep, and make Christmas gifts for my extended family. My “Prep for [State] trip” had 60+ items on it, and I checked off 98% of them.
I’ve been taking the sleep aid almost every night, which made getting up at 6:30am to send my son to school very difficult. I’m worried that I might be a bit dependent on the sleep aid, which is not where I want to be. I’ve packed the pills in my carry-on luggage, but I’m going to try to get to sleep without medication tonight.
Wish me luck!
Related:
- The Bipolar Parent’s Saturday Morning Mental Health Check In: Mother-In-Law Edition
- How to Manage the Winter Blues/Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Have Bipolar? You Can Still Thrive This Holiday Season
Hope you were able to get sleep without the medication, sweet Cass!
Sending you lots of love & a huge hug.
XOXOXOXOX
Dyane
Thanks so much for the well wishes, Dyane! I have been able to sleep without the medication so far on this trip, but it’s definitely been an uphill battle, with me lying in bed until late at night. It’s exhausting. But I’m glad I’m here and awake during the day, which the meds wouldn’t allow me to be.
Thanks again, and Merry Christmas to you and your family! Take care, and I hope your holidays have been awesome.
Love,
Cass
XOXOOXXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
You’re so sweet! Thanks, Dyane!