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Nov 29, 2009, 1:20 pm
Essay won’t write itself. Can’t think straight. But at least I’m laughing about it all.
Degus aren’t talking to me. Ran out of Timothy Hay (took a while to get to that n... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 2:50 pm
Went to a conference last week. All about recovery and peer support workers and how awesome it is to have mental people working in mental healthcare. How recovery was possible. How forward think... Comment - Like
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Nov 23, 2009, 10:54 am
I is uppity down.
Didn’t mean to worry anyone with the last post. Really weird actually, I remember writing it, I remember posting it and I remember how wound up/tense and generally raahgle I... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 4:45 pm
anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut. anger. cut.
Want to claw out of my own skin.... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 5:32 pm
Feel a bit more supported on placement. Although I think it is dependent on which staff are on. One of the nurses I was on today had know I’d been off sick and everything. Ended up feeling... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2009, 2:21 pm
My study tutor told me to hold on for dear life and not allow myself to slip all the way down back into the depression.
But it’s too late.
Between last weeks ‘therapy’ session, the... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 4:07 pm
I need another 3 weeks off, just to recover from today.
First day back and:
1 nurse and 1 student thought that I’d quit the course
1 nurse thought that they hadn’t seen me because I was ... Comment - Like
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Nov 14, 2009, 2:08 pm
So… the protected post.
I’ve been asked about it. Spent most of the day wondering what I want to do about it really. I guess I must have wanted somebody to see, otherwise I’d ha... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 8:01 pm
Dear *insert suitable nickname here*
So I guess you’re wondering why I don’t want to come to any more wonderful and insightful sessions with you. You’re wondering if I’m be... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 10:43 am
Occy Health appointment went well yesterday. My tutor had spoken to them and they’re all happy for me to return to placement next week. Apparently everybody was really impressed that I’... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 2:18 pm
1. I’m a horrible, evil, manipulative piece of shit whose only problem is that I make all the nice people who are bending over backwards to try and help me feel incompetent.
2. It is my fault t... Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 4:51 pm
Turns out the SHA has requested my notes. They wanted to know if I’d registered elsewhere, I told them I hadn’t and that I intended to stay registered with them. Only now I’m wor... Comment - Like
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Nov 9, 2009, 7:33 pm
…if anyone knows anything about this:
It’s Agomelatine. It’s a new antidepressant which if research trials are to be believed is at least as effective as prozac was what it first ... Comment - Like
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Nov 4, 2009, 5:23 pm
Last friday I was convinced that my best friend hated me. Last night she phoned and asked about the course. She came with me and met me before I went to Occy Health, she waited outside for me whil... Comment - Like
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Nov 3, 2009, 5:03 pm
D-day tomorrow with Occy Health.
After the last post I went into ultra rapid crazy mood time (bouncy up in the mornings and catatonically down in the late-afternoon/evenings). Got to the point wher... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2009, 1:55 pm
Good mood (though slightly dinted during panto auditions when I became convinced that others were laughing at me (still don’t know if they were or I’m being a little over-sensitive)) laste... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2009, 12:24 pm
….And is somewhat slightly suspicious of this fact.
At first I thought it was just anxiety that was giving me all this extra energy – I was supposed to phone my personal tutor today to se... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2009, 6:09 pm
I don’t know what I want anymore. Hell the simplest of decisions is currently beyond me. It kinda feels like I’ve lost some higher brain function, which is ridiculous given that I̵... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2009, 5:58 pm
Been thinking about where I’m headed in life.
I can’t help but wonder if I am being selfish wanting to become a nurse. I’m not very good at it – certainly there are plenty o... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2009, 11:49 am
At least not being on placement means that I can spend 12-14 hours a day in bed.
Whilst not in bed I’m working my way through House Season 5 on DVD.
I have a headache, can’t think straig... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2009, 1:13 pm
Good mood last until last evening. May have had something to do with the beer that I drank, since it dropped around the same time. May just have been exhaustion setting in.
Saw my tutor today, sh... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2009, 7:43 am
Isn’t life hilarious.
I felt sooooo bad on wednesday, that I ended up emailing my tutor, and making a GP appointment, since I didn’t really know what else to do. We’ve arranged to... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2009, 4:11 pm
Apparently shrink and GP have talked and wanted to put the mirtazapine up to 45mg. I told her I’d come off it (I’d told her I was coming off it a month ago), this has thereby removed tha... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 1:44 pm
First off the good news – Occy health appointment last week and the cow was practically nice to me. On the other hand maybe I should be worried…
Also managed to get a copy of a shrink l... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2009, 7:10 pm
As this quiet time ends, I look back on the year, and recall as well the good things it gave me:
I remember the friends I made and the jokes I heard and told.
I remember the times when I was able to... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2009, 5:05 pm
Erm yeah.
Not been having the best of weeks really. I’ve been plagued with nightmares which have left me on edge. Normally I can calm myself down once I’ve woken up, but I’ve ju... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 6:17 pm
Still feel like poo.
Seem to have turned one of my friends into my therapist (I’m sure he’d actually prefer time off from his day job). He seemed somewhat bemused by the fact that I hav... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 5:06 pm
Meh.
Too tired to function.
Can’t concentrate on lectures.
Tried to nap earlier – too tired it would seem even to fall asleep.
Feel sick, lost my appetite
Eyes keep closing, and are s... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2009, 2:32 pm
He sorted out the muddle in the loft
And left confusion running round his head instead.
He’d always meant to go up in the loft
And sort out the boxes crammed with
Things so necessary to life... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2009, 4:20 pm
I may have embarrassed myself somewhat. Went out with the people I volunteer for, and after several pints of beer could be found in floods of tears over what a horrible, horrible, evil person I am. ... Comment - Like
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Sep 15, 2009, 5:41 pm
Mhmm Psychiatrist’s appointment, could be summed up in one simple sentence:
An absolute, complete waste of time
Don’t know why I bothered, shouldn’t haven’t bothered, shan... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2009, 6:32 pm
It has come to my attention that this blog is getting farther and farther from what I intended it to be and more just a rant-fest. I don’t think I’ve talked about mental health is severa... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2009, 6:37 pm
It was my birthday on saturday, so I have taken this as an excuse to update my about page. The rest of this post is liable to be a whingy, whiney rant, so please feel free to skip it.
I’ve co... Comment - Like
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Sep 1, 2009, 6:09 pm
The degu video is lost forever in the ether (well actually youtube just said is was an illegal video format – ohh get me and my criminal like recording skills…). I shall do another video... Comment - Like
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Aug 27, 2009, 12:47 pm
Been a while since I posted – don’t know where the time has gone really. Went to see the GP, but didn’t ask to come off the mirtazapine in the end – wasn’t really given... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2009, 2:01 pm
My boyfriend has still not come home. I’m not really expecting him to, I wouldn’t if I was him. Besides the last time he went off like this he was gone for about 12 years (that was bef... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2009, 1:25 pm
If recovery were a painting-by-numbers, knowing what is needed would be easy –
A dash of colour here, a splash of colour there.
If recovery were a piece of flat packed furniture it would come ... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2009, 6:37 pm
I’m already dead
Caught in an endless night
Always moving forward, but never gaining ground
Plod, plod, plod, treading endlessly to the grave
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Aug 8, 2009, 4:55 pm
Things have been going a little strange around here again. Mood has been up and down. Ended up doing the one thing I promised I wouldn’t, got drunk at the drama society that I had recently j... Comment - Like
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Jul 31, 2009, 8:50 am
Went to see good GP for the last time today, kind of skirted around the whole PD Vs Mood thing – he seemed to think the guy was probably barking if he thought there was no evidence of a mood dis... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2009, 3:53 pm
It would seem that my counselor agrees with the guy from the post before (who shall for reasons of brevity from here on in and forever more be known as WRG “well-respected guy”) I like t... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2009, 4:08 pm
Saw someone yesterday, who is well respected in the local mental health community. He says that I don’t have any form of mood disorder, that there isn’t anything wrong with me and that h... Comment - Like
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Jul 26, 2009, 2:41 pm
Mirtazapine goes up, mood goes down… I can’t figure that one out at all. Exam was alright – could have gone better, could have gone worse, hope I passed, but given we were told t... Comment - Like
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