How To Ensure A Self-Destructive Lifestyle
by Suzanne Gerwick

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1. Ruminate on your unhappy childhood and past hurts.

2. Blame others.

3. Don’t accept responsibility for your own decisions.

4. Surround yourself with other unhappy, unfulfilled, whiny people.

5. Believe that you can’t. You’re handicapped in some way.

6. Don’t try even small steps in a positive direction.

7. Pamper your low self-worth with destructive habits—overeating, drinking, not exercising.

8. Be lazy.

9. Take your anger and frustration out on your spouse. Then blame him for your cold marriage.

10. Avoid real communication. Deny your faults. Ask questions that you won’t like the answers to and then get upset.

11. Follow in your parents’ dysfunctional footsteps.

12. Feed jealous thoughts.

Author's Bio
Suzanne Gerwick is using wellness tools, therapy, journal writing, support groups, a Dialectical Behavioral Therapy group/class and medication to treat her bipolar 1 disorder. She strives to improve the quality of her life daily and enjoys her husband of 34 years, her two grown children, many hobbies and various volunteer activities such as co-leading with a therapist a support group for the women in the local jail. The above is an entry from her journal. She can be reached at dbsahancockcounty@gmail.com.