| February 21st, 2009 |
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Tonight, despite having been good to okay all day on mood scales, I was starting to feel strung out and frenetic, like I was heading for a breakdown, and was having trouble calming down.
Then I remembered something my psychologist had said about how one way to help handle exams is to ask to be permitted to take it in a room where there will be as few distractions as possible. It occurred to me that being out in the main part of the house, sharing a table with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) velithya and hearing the shouts and comments of Chas and Dave playing Left for Dead, the traffic going past, etc... there was too much stimulus around me after a day that had burned through a lot of emotional energy.
So I moved into the bedroom with my laptop, dim lighting, and closed doors for quiet. Less stuff throwing itself at my under-sheathed nerves (that being the physical cause of ADD, I'm told), demanding my attention HERE HERE HERE and HERE.
And almost instantly, I was calmer. My mind was no longer shredding itself on too much input. (Normally I can handle stimulus, but not always.) And I got through the evening without the breakdown that earlier seemed inevitable.
It's something to bear in mind for uni - if things are getting a little too much, I should find myself a quiet corner of the Reid Library, or settle on the grass with my canalphones to block out noise, and just chill on as little stimulus as I can manage, and I might well be okay.
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Tonight I am cooking. With uni starting Monday, I want healthy packable snacks, so I have a pile of ingredients to combine into just that.
Planned varieties:
- chicken sausages (er, slightly burnt, fortunately neither velithya nor I is particularly picky about that)
- beef, broccoli, spring onion and pineapple in honey-soy sauce
- chopped chicken sausages with spring onion and broccoli and pineapple (I like pineapple)
Along with apples and bread rolls, I should be able to keep myself stocked with healthy food to take to uni with me.
Slightly unfortunately, I'm often bad at judging the volume of ingredients once combined, but there should be enough containers. It helps that I bought some new boxes today - small ones, appropriate for Sami-snacks. (The endocrinologist endorsed the Frequent But Healthy Snacking plan until further information is available, hence aiming for broccoli-heavy things, since broccoli is very good for you and I'm okay with eating it.)
Props on all this must go to Chas, since he cut up the broccoli and spring onion for me, because he awesome.
I have a line of little boxes, all carefully filled but with their lids off so they can cool before I seal them up. I also bought some plastic cutlery so I can have cutlery to take that it's okay if it gets lost/destroyed.
I have yet to find an appropriate backpack (i.e. one that can comfortably and securely hold a 17" widescreen laptop - they're all designed for 15" or less, it seems), so it looks like I'm going to have to go to uni with two bags, which is kind of annoying, but I can handle it. The important thing is to stay on top of everything, including making sure I have food (it's not that easy to get healthy gluten-free food on campus, and it's expensive), and am keeping up with my classes, and everything will be okay.
It will. Especially since if I'm lucky I won't be battling my brain as much, because I'm seeing the psychiatrist on Wednesday.Current Music: Sendai Kamotsu - Risque Santa Monica~2toshi ato no saipan
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