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Friday: sitting still and calming down
Jan. 31st, 2025 11:46 amYesterday was a little frenetic, so I’m going to try to ease up a bit and relax. Also, I have a lot of phone calls and FF today, so I can’t be wearing myself out too early in the day.
I walked with M. in the morning. I wasn’t going to, but between A. getting out an hour earlier, and the aforementioned pone calls, plus bad weather later in the day, that was the only option to actually get a walk. I’m out of blondies so we had graham crackers.
The farm share arrived. I now have way too many potatoes. Hash browns for days! Woot!
I was poking around online trying to answer a question, and wound up looking at a reddit post that referred to Albert Ellis, who I was somehow unfamiliar with, despite having read Wayne Dyer’s book Back In the Day which is quite obviously derivative (altho not in a great way). Ellis’ book _How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything Yes Anything_ is available via kindle unlimited so I’m reading it. Ellis’ is super focused on thinking-about-thinking, which, duh, obviously I am in favor of. It’s kind of a wild ride as a book, tho, mostly because of the authorial tone. Here is a sample for your enjoyment:
“Conventional insight will help you very little. For it says that your knowledge of exactly how you got disturbed will make you less neurotic. Drivel! It will often help make you become nuttier!”
I’m not saying he’s wrong. I just don’t really know what he means by “conventional insight”, altho from context it appears to be some kind of backward looking, investigate the path-dependency sort of thing. It is a kick in the pants reading someone who uses the word “Drivel”, with an exclamation mark, and total sincerity.
FWIW, the path that led me here involved me musing about how exactly do people differentiate between “hyperactivity” and “mania”. Searching on that led to how to differentiate between “ADHD” and “bipolar” (fair jump), and then life-arc, treatment strategies, comorbidity rates. The comorbidity question is really interesting, because so many people who have autism also have ADD, and a big chunk of people with ADHD have bipolar, but the prevalence of diagnosed bipolar among people with autism is extremely low. These are all cultural constructs and nothing means anything anyway, but I’ll be poking at that set of questions further. In the mean time, Drivel Dude is entertainment.
ETA:
I’m just hopping from one thing to another today, so if that’s gonna make ya nuts, bail out now! Drivel Dude mentioned David Burns Feeling Good which ALSO I have somehow not read, but wow, the Headway Summary is not inspiring. Gotta love it when people are so fucking focused on relentlessly criticizing what people are thinking and therefore (according to him) feeling, and only very in passing attending to things like physical health, adequate sleep, nourishment, etc. I know my mood is very very very dominated by those basic needs, and when one or more isn’t being met, my thoughts and feelings become extremely unpleasant. I know they are ridiculous and still can’t stop them.
Anyway, the summary mentions Navaco’s Irritability Quotient.
https://www.mhankyswoh.org/Uploads/files/pdfs/Anger-NovacoAngerScale_20130812.pdf
I don’t know that this is the same thing, but it appears to be? Maybe?
I love the ratings on it, tho!
“0 – 45: The amount of anger and frustration you generally experience is remarkably low. Only small percentage
of the population will score this low on a test. You might want to examine whether you were honest with your
answers and the possibility that you deny angry feelings.”
Basically, “if you scored this, you are lying”. LOL
The pay phone reference is hilarious.
This is a more modern approach, that collects both self and parent report (it’s aimed at kids with severe mood dysregulation, and trying to differentiate that vs. bipolar).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3484687/
I walked with M. in the morning. I wasn’t going to, but between A. getting out an hour earlier, and the aforementioned pone calls, plus bad weather later in the day, that was the only option to actually get a walk. I’m out of blondies so we had graham crackers.
The farm share arrived. I now have way too many potatoes. Hash browns for days! Woot!
I was poking around online trying to answer a question, and wound up looking at a reddit post that referred to Albert Ellis, who I was somehow unfamiliar with, despite having read Wayne Dyer’s book Back In the Day which is quite obviously derivative (altho not in a great way). Ellis’ book _How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything Yes Anything_ is available via kindle unlimited so I’m reading it. Ellis’ is super focused on thinking-about-thinking, which, duh, obviously I am in favor of. It’s kind of a wild ride as a book, tho, mostly because of the authorial tone. Here is a sample for your enjoyment:
“Conventional insight will help you very little. For it says that your knowledge of exactly how you got disturbed will make you less neurotic. Drivel! It will often help make you become nuttier!”
I’m not saying he’s wrong. I just don’t really know what he means by “conventional insight”, altho from context it appears to be some kind of backward looking, investigate the path-dependency sort of thing. It is a kick in the pants reading someone who uses the word “Drivel”, with an exclamation mark, and total sincerity.
FWIW, the path that led me here involved me musing about how exactly do people differentiate between “hyperactivity” and “mania”. Searching on that led to how to differentiate between “ADHD” and “bipolar” (fair jump), and then life-arc, treatment strategies, comorbidity rates. The comorbidity question is really interesting, because so many people who have autism also have ADD, and a big chunk of people with ADHD have bipolar, but the prevalence of diagnosed bipolar among people with autism is extremely low. These are all cultural constructs and nothing means anything anyway, but I’ll be poking at that set of questions further. In the mean time, Drivel Dude is entertainment.
ETA:
I’m just hopping from one thing to another today, so if that’s gonna make ya nuts, bail out now! Drivel Dude mentioned David Burns Feeling Good which ALSO I have somehow not read, but wow, the Headway Summary is not inspiring. Gotta love it when people are so fucking focused on relentlessly criticizing what people are thinking and therefore (according to him) feeling, and only very in passing attending to things like physical health, adequate sleep, nourishment, etc. I know my mood is very very very dominated by those basic needs, and when one or more isn’t being met, my thoughts and feelings become extremely unpleasant. I know they are ridiculous and still can’t stop them.
Anyway, the summary mentions Navaco’s Irritability Quotient.
https://www.mhankyswoh.org/Uploads/files/pdfs/Anger-NovacoAngerScale_20130812.pdf
I don’t know that this is the same thing, but it appears to be? Maybe?
I love the ratings on it, tho!
“0 – 45: The amount of anger and frustration you generally experience is remarkably low. Only small percentage
of the population will score this low on a test. You might want to examine whether you were honest with your
answers and the possibility that you deny angry feelings.”
Basically, “if you scored this, you are lying”. LOL
The pay phone reference is hilarious.
This is a more modern approach, that collects both self and parent report (it’s aimed at kids with severe mood dysregulation, and trying to differentiate that vs. bipolar).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3484687/