Re: Retirement & Mental Health ........ ( Tips, Ideas )
Sue,
Thank you for being so honest with me, I really appreciate you taking the time to tell your retirement story so far. I'm sure you are right that it will take time to get used to retirement and I plan to do that, ease myself into the days and nights. My Wife is retired as well however she does now work 1-3 days a week as the mood takes her as she is a bank Nurse Practitioner in the UK. We will miss my money but I can replace some of it with my Pension/Package so hopefully that will help stress levels as well.
I think, with my BiPolar, I have to be careful about mania, anxiety and low mood and so I need to have a shape to my days and try and avoid laying in as thats especially what I do when my low mood kicks in. I have a dog and my plan is that I will be up and walking the dog by 8.30 am) every day, will see how that beds in.
My meds have seen my metabolism fail me and I've put 3 stone on in the last year, I need to arrest that in some way as well.
Thanks for your kind words and taking the rime,
Tony
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