Life's routines

Are you routine-oriented? I am, sometimes to the point of being too much so. It used to be I'd write my blog entries for this blog first thing in the morning; then I started doing it the night before. Once that routine settled in, if I was too tired at night - I'd forget in the morning. When I remembered later in the day, I would figure it was too late to bother. And so it goes. That's what happened yesterday. Come noon, I figure, any regulars who check out the blog probably stopped by already.

Are routines like that good for us? I remember reading that people with dementia can cope longer and hide symptoms longer if they have a very strict routine they follow. Routines like that are drilled in and people don't have to think about them, they just do them automatically.

But routines can go "bad" too. I know that there are certain things that I need to do in certain order or I don't feel right about it. Not obsessively so - but it just doesn't seem right. Ok, maybe a bit obsessive. But when does a routine go from beyond being a helpful part of life to being an obsession? Obviously, the first answer is if the routine begins to interfere with your life and your every day activities, but what about the more subtle ones? When can people recognize if maybe they need to lay off the routines for a while?

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