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Rather than focusing on the things I should be doing that I am not, I am going to be proud of the things I HAVE accomplished today.  Fight wants to tell me that with all the time I have in the day, it is ridiculous how little I have done and I have no right to be proud of doing things that other people are doing today in addition to so much else.  But Fight is wrong.  I am struggling today.  PMDD makes my CPTSD triggers much more sensitive.  There have been days like this where I barely even moved - didn't eat, just started at the TV from the moment I dropped my kids off at school until I picked them up.  Today is evidence that I am making progress.  I am overcoming some of these hurtles.  Yes, It's been a hard day.  But I went to my EEG appointment on time and dressed in fresh clean clothes.  I fixed my hair rather than just wearing a hat.  I put the windshield wiper fluid in my car, which I've been putting off for a couple weeks.  I went to a gas station and washed my windshield when I discovered that my wiper fluid squirters seem to not be working.  I filled out my bullet journal.  I put in a load of laundry, took my partner's laundry out of the dryer for him, moved the first load to the dryer, and added a second load.  I wrote a blog post.  I journaled a little in my bullet journal.  I introduced two friends struggling with the same autoimmune disease.  I thought through my defensive Parts and PTSD triggers several times.  I'm writing this post. I have done a lot today considering how much my brain is fighting me.  Now I have to work on remembering what my therapist told me yesterday, when I identify and calm down a part and "do the thing," I need to pause and focus on that instance to commit it to memory and help rewire those neural pathways. I am proud of what I've done today.  I have done many things I didn't want to.  I am making progress and I am proud of that.

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