1984 Year Review Age 12

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1984

 

June

• Continued showing signs of what I would now call manic behavior. 
• I would stay up after everybody went to bed and clean my Mom’s kitchen from top to bottom, watch television till it would go off the air, and then sit outside and watch the sun come up.  
• There were a lot of times where I wouldn’t go to sleep at all and just stay awake for two or three days at a time repeating these same activities over and over. 
• There have been times over the course of my life that I have exhibited behaviors like this but this particular summer I hardly ever slept at all just like summer of 1983.
• I felt so good all the time and loved I felt when I was up late by myself. 
• On nights when there was no kitchen to clean I would rearrange and organize my bedroom.

August – September

• Started showing some signs of OCD when going to bed which I have done consistently up to present day.  Whenever I have to set my clock to get up with I have to check it by verbally saying the time and the time the alarm is set for three times.  
• I presently repeat this process five or six times before getting in bed. 
• However, when the ritual began I would repeat the process hundreds of times in a night. 
• I can remember still checking my alarm when the birds were beginning to sing in the morning. 

August 1984 –June 1985

• Started Middle School (7th grade).
• I was made fun a lot for being overweight.
• I developed horrible acne and was made fun for it.
• Continued staying up late at night on school nights and would watch television until it went off the air (4-5am).  This is something that I have done on and off up to present day.