I’ve been trying to have a routine every day mostly around giving my dog a potty break every one or two hours each day. I try to eat my meals around the same times and eat the same foods and drink coffee and decaf around the same times. I’m trying to shower every morning by around 8am on days I shower.
I’m not sure it really helps all that much though.
What do you think, does having a routine help you at all? Do you want to share what your typical day looks like?
I can’t have a strict routine. I’m too spontaneous. And my sleep is generally too erratic.
I’ve been on routines before. Not sure if I was any happier. It’s suppose to help stabilize you getting on a routine. My main routine now is getting to bed and waking up close to the same time. Maybe this week if I make it to day treatment that’ll become part of my routine. After day treatment it’s chill time. I want to try to fit in shower, breakfast, walk, then day treatment. It’s a lot for the couple hours in the morning though.
My routine sucks,because I suck.
I get up 1 pm,after morbid dreams and drooling from Clozapine …
Rest of day is ok.
Today and yesterday I finnished cleaning the flat,and tommorow start exercising.
I really hope and pray for my heavy nights feeling to stop.
Yes.
Having a routine helps in so many ways, including a decrease in positive symptoms.
I’m most stable when I’m doing the same things at the same time over and over.
Like my morning ritual with coffee and cigarettes, the crunchy panbread and then before dinner witch is like my breakfast is my time for the day, about 5 to 6 hours.
Then I do different things, each day, laundry, gardening, cleaning, shopping, repairing things,
So I’m stable and the world turn around .me
I absolutely work best on a routine. I wish I was on one now!
I’m very dependent on my routines, sometimes too much in that sense if i have to be in another place than my home, i find it disturbing.
In other ways I think it helps me, but I would like to be a little more spontaneous.
This! 1515251515
Routine makes me feel comfortable by doing the same little tasks each day/week.
Same here. I like to do the same things at the same times every day. I don’t want to change my routine.
I live next to a school and the parents park outside my home to drop off and pick up their kids. One of my daily tasks is pulling down my blinds in the morning and then again in the afternoon.
Yeah, I have a little routine on most days. Which also usually means when I’m thrown out of my routine (family visiting/going to visit family, for example) I start to get symptomatic. Nothing crazy, just more anxiety and stuff.
I have anxiety from having more appointments with my ACT team and doing therapy to work on my social skills.
I hear ya. My GAD might be worse than my schizophrenia. Certainly more debilitating
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