Do you ever put salt in your coffee?
There's a story I read as a child, taken from The Peterkin Papers, called "The Lady Who Put Salt in Her Coffee." In it the entire Peterkin family and their friends try to think of what their mother can add to her coffee to take away the taste of salt.I'm having a "salt in my coffee" day all day. When I was making coffee, I nearly poured the carafe of water into the coffee grinder. I almost sprayed a cooking pan with Pledge instead of Pam. And just now, after going out to the kitchen twice to get a couple packets of Sweet 'n' Low (because I forgot to put any in when I poured the coffee), getting distracted and coming back empty-handed, I carefully opened the packets and emptied them into ... my ashtray.
There were at least a couple of other instances I can't remember now. Looking for things in the wrong places when I know perfectly well where to find them, or putting them in the wrong places. I know this type of thing is common now and then, but all day long?
I'm wondering if it's because I increased my dose of antipsychotic medicine yesterday. Or just that I'm loopy.
Do you have days like these when you're just ... goofy?
~Marcia
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I have days like this too. It’s called being a musician. LOL!!!
I think, with all of the things that bipolars have to deal with on a daily basis, it is easy to become more than just a little distracted when it comes to everyday, run of the mill, life things. I’ve been known to put the cordless telephone receiver in the refridgerator and a pen into the pencil sharpener! I think that the less we analyze what’s going on, (or more importantly, what we think is going wrong) and more on laughing at our folly, moving on and enjoying our lives, the healthier people we will become.
Making myself a cup of coffee (which should be decaf, but of course it isn’t) I take it through to the lounge and sit down. Realising I had my coffee next to me I reach down to retrieve it and there is my 4 pint milk carton!
Surprised, but not totally, I go to the fridge and there, not a drop spilt, is my coffee where my milk should be.
The difference in size between a cup of coffee and a large 4 pint milk carton is quite significant - why didn’t I realise?
This is typical of me!
Thank goodness I am not the only one ……. welcome to our world ….. time delays, mood swings, forgetfulness, mood lows and highs, medication, scatty behaviour, eccentricities, being convinced it is a Monday and find out it is Friday and wonder how Friday comes after a Monday? This is all within the first hour of waking up and that is if you can get to sleep at all……
Believe it or not, you can put salt in your coffee to counteract the bitterness.
Anyway, I seem to have days like that everyday. I walk from one room to another and can’t remember what I am doing there. I carry a phone becasue I cannot remember what I need to pick up at the store. Oh habby day (as my grandaughter says).
david
I can be plenty spacey as it is, but when the Doc had me on Lamictal I started to get REALLY spacey! The worst was when I drove away from the gas pump with the hose still in my car which was very embarrasing. Suffice it to say, I didn’t stay on the Lamictal. To bad, because it made me feel better than some of the other drugs I’ve been prescribed.
Sounds like a couple of weeks ago, when I found myself starting to put toothpaste….on my razor. Or all of the times I put things away before I’m actually done with them. Or the spreadsheets that I spend 2 hours on, only to click “No” when it asks if I want to save it. Or the times I can’t find the sunglasses hanging around my neck, the car keys in my hand, the hat on my head, etc.