answer:I start my action plan. Mixed states are the most dangerous so professional help is usually required. Be careful with yourself. I tell my support network how I’m feeling and what I feel up to doing. I check in with them daily- usually by texts because talking in person/phone is difficult for me during those times. We have an agreement that if I feel like self-harming (drugs, drinking, cutting, not sleeping, not taking my meds correctly) that I will tell someone immediately. I update my journal with every mood change. It helps me get it out and helps me realize that I won’t be swallowed whole by my emotions. I call my doc and therapist. If they or Hubbs is scared for me and wants me to go be evaluated- I go. No questions asked. When I’m in a mixed state I am the last person to see things clearly, so I let the pro’s take over for a little while. I’m busy enough. I take my medications exactly as prescribed. No ‘oh, it’s nothing’; ‘I deserve to feel this bad for all the bad things I’ve done or ‘I’ll take it later’. If they aren’t working I call my doc immediately- any hour any day. They work for me, not the other way around. I give myself permission to feel whatever I am feeling. No feeling is ever wrong- it’s what we do with it that counts.