{"id":2805,"date":"2024-09-11T17:48:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T00:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2024-09-13T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T00:02:06","slug":"better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=2805","title":{"rendered":"Better Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The past few days, I seem to be in a better place mentally. For the past few years, when I wake up in the morning, my mind is extremely active. I\u2019ve recently been talking to a therapist \u2014 plus two weeks ago, I talked to a psychiatrist who increased my medications. It honestly seems that the bump in medications has settled my mind a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally, when I wake up, I have multiple trains of thought going on in my head \u2014 plus, I\u2019m thinking about music, and have a song or two that I need to play on a speaker to get them out of my head. Recently, I find that I wake up and my mind seems fairly stable and clear. I\u2019m actually able to think about what I need to do that day, plan it out, and get it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m almost to the point where I might not need to regularly talk to a therapist. I need to think that through. It happens to be the case that next week I have a conflict with my regular therapy appointment (a funeral) \u2014 so this might be the first step to meeting with the therapist less frequently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ll figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past few days, I seem to be in a better place mentally. For the past few years, when I wake up in the morning, my mind is extremely active. I\u2019ve recently been talking to a therapist \u2014 plus two weeks ago, I talked to a psychiatrist who increased my medications. It honestly seems that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=2805\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Better Place&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2819,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}