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Oct 4, 2011, 7:06 pm
… I’ve started a new blog.
If you would like the URL please let me know, of course I’m still rather unsure if it’s a good idea or not. Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2011, 1:17 am
Please ignore last post, it was alcohol fuelled and ill-advised.
The withdrawal from the madosphere was however meant. I’m fine though. I need to move on though.
Truth be told I should never have returned to blog after it got shut down. Arguably I should have never started in the first plac... Comment - Like
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Aug 16, 2011, 2:18 pm
… to say that I received the amended copy of the referral letter by Shrink.
Basically it’s exactly the same as the last one, except that the sentence:
She did have a period of more serious suicidal intent around 18 months ago at the time of a break up of relationship.
Now reads:
She did have... Comment - Like
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Aug 13, 2011, 8:34 pm
Last night, while I lay thinking here,
some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
and pranced and partied all night long
and sang their same old Whatif song:
Whatif I’m dumb in school?
Whatif they’ve closed the swimming pool?
Whatif I get beat up?
Whatif there’s poison in my cup?
Whatif I star... Comment - Like
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Aug 12, 2011, 3:56 pm
… lovely that isn’t it.
Hands up who wants to see sedation meet agitation in a battle for control of a human body/brain/mind/spirit/soul/existence?
Who wants to see a war being waged within?
Or the carnage?
I’m tense, on edge, physically shaking (although what’s causing that is anybody... Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2011, 12:43 pm
After long consideration that something had to change, I’ve decided to trial a period of password protecting all posts.
In truth, I’ve not felt completely safe here since this blog was used as a weapon against me, and I fear it happening again. I have considered going completely private, or ... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2011, 12:56 pm
… like the description says, it gives you something else to worry about.
Actually the ear/nose one was a dance move in a very, silly children’s game/dance thing which has various other moves and gets faster and harder as you go on…
Worth a try though. But I’ll maintain doing these things... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2011, 12:56 pm
… like the description says, it gives you something else to worry about.
Actually the ear/nose one was a dance move in a very, silly children’s game/dance thing which has various other moves and gets faster and harder as you go on…
Worth a try though. But I’ll maintain doing these things... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2011, 12:11 pm
… everything is grating on me today. I’m just in one of those moods, “brittle”, somewhere between speaking to fast and finding the world bouncy; and crying because I am quite frankly so far beyond the end of my tether, that it snapped sometime ago and has now been stolen by a pygmy wearing... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2011, 12:11 pm
… everything is grating on me today. I’m just in one of those moods, “brittle”, somewhere between speaking to fast and finding the world bouncy; and crying because I am quite frankly so far beyond the end of my tether, that it snapped sometime ago and has now been stolen by a pygmy wearing... Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2011, 9:33 am
… she can’t see me because I have Shrink and therefore am already inundated with mh support.
Wish I’d just let Shrink get rid of me from services when she offered. It’s RNIB all over again.
Just reconfirms what I already knew.
Though she’s referring me to an organisation designed to get... Comment - Like
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Jul 14, 2011, 9:33 am
… she can’t see me because I have Shrink and therefore am already inundated with mh support.
Wish I’d just let Shrink get rid of me from services when she offered. It’s RNIB all over again.
Just reconfirms what I already knew.
Though she’s referring me to an organisation designed to get... Comment - Like
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Jul 13, 2011, 6:04 pm
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Oh ok, I know I don’t pay for Shrink what with being in blighty and therefore having access to NHS services, but it’s still funny.
In other news I’ve been scaring the hell out of myself about those patches. Part of me wants to try them, but I’m not sure if that’s the part that’s ... Comment - Like
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Jul 12, 2011, 7:01 pm
… this will be short.
Doctor was nice, although I suspect he’s used to dealing with people who are in much, much more pain that I consider myself to be. He did say the type of pain I experience is unusual and he doesn’t know much about it.
Apparently I’m terrified of pain killers. That... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 7:50 pm
… (By Dan Nichols)
I found this one too…
Tell me that you’re alright,
Yeah everything is alright.
Oh please tell me that you’re alright,
Yeah everything is alright.
Give me a reason to end this discussion,
To break with tradition.
To fold and divide.
Cause I hate the ocean, theme p... Comment - Like
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Jul 11, 2011, 11:43 am
… had to cut Shrink appointment down, didn’t really have appointment, just rescheduled for 3 weeks time. I don’t know why this upsets me, it wouldn’t have achieved anything, but having counted down the weeks to this appointment, I’m back to nearly the beginning.
And GP appointment was a... Comment - Like
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Jul 10, 2011, 4:02 pm
… I’ve been away for the weekend, for what was an awesome conference, I have a post in the pipeline about it. Of course the inevitable return to reality has set in, this coupled with tiredness has left me in rather a state – whoops.
I guess it’s the same issue as always. I love HaShem, ... Comment - Like
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Jul 7, 2011, 4:17 pm
… of course liking CBT Lady was on the proviso that “can I contact your GP?” was what I thought it was – a customary contact of the “by the way I’m seeing this person for 6 sessions of CBT” and NOT the “she’s mad please section her variety”
I might be completely up the wrong tre... Comment - Like
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Jul 6, 2011, 5:01 pm
… so I went to the assessment as per this post.
My 10-minute assessment that she was lovely turned out to be spot on.
I think I was the most open I’ve ever been at an assessment. Partly her, partly the fact that so much is out in the open already, it makes starting the conversation so much e... Comment - Like
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Jul 5, 2011, 6:49 pm
… you can thank me later.
So it started off as a perfectly normal tuesday. I went to the group, which was a little disturbed by various things occurring in and outside of the office, and I got a rant on about various things, mostly about the danger of creating a “hierarchy of suffering”, an... Comment - Like
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Jul 3, 2011, 6:27 pm
One of my Sims has the “shy” trait, this means that whenever she’s around people she doesn’t know she gets this moodlet:
Which, whilst sat in a car full of people I only knew vaguely thought depicts that feeling perfectly. Unfortunately the trouble with cars is they aren’t well known fo... Comment - Like
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Jul 1, 2011, 5:23 pm
… written on paper and in notebooks, that you wrote goodness knows when, but hey I’ve found paper
I will never be free.
I can never be free.
But I will be free.
That one was accompanied by a butterfly and some other squiggles…
The past is unchangeable
The future’s unknowable
The pres... Comment - Like
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Jun 29, 2011, 6:05 pm
….I have decided that it only acceptable for me to be mental until the age of 30.
On my 30th birthday I need to not be mental anymore.
How I derived this I won’t go into. It came about in conversation with HB. And yes I know there are plenty of mental people who are above that age. Plent... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2011, 6:39 pm
… so I got the phonecall last week and made an appointment, the letter came today – it’s for next week, which basically means that from referral to appointment it has been 3 weeks.
Job Centre 2 : NHS 0
Although we still have this:
WE DO NOT ACCEPT REFERRALS FOR PEOPLE WTH SEVERE AND ENDURIN... Comment - Like
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Jun 27, 2011, 7:37 pm
… that’s what they’ll be doing at the hospital tomorrow morning. (Well, really they’re checking to see if my eyes are communicating effectively with my brain and seem to be taking it as fact that I have one to communicate with. Of course I’m expecting to fail that, and I’ve already... Comment - Like
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Jun 26, 2011, 8:33 pm
During these years I have met people who have been weakened from constant disappointments. They continually create new hopes for themselves, and as a result they betray themselves. Others live in the world of illusions, hastily and and incessantly building and rebuilding their world in order to ... Comment - Like
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Jun 18, 2011, 4:04 pm
The house of Hillel, and the House of Shammai argued for two and a half years…
הללו אומרים: נוח לו לאדם שלא נברא יותר משנבא: והללו אומרים: ניח לו לאדאם שנברא יותר משלא נברא
They said: It is better for a person to have never... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2011, 4:35 pm
I don’t hear voices -
Whatever do you mean?
My thoughts are processed and squeaky clean!
I don’t hear voices -
I think you’re out of line.
Don’t think you can compare your reality with mine!
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I am not ill,
Nor am I insane,
Although I am confused by your strange little game.
You ar... Comment - Like
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Jun 14, 2011, 6:46 pm
For those who were reading this blog, quite some time ago, you might recall my Sims Mental Health Unit… (The post in which I feel in many ways I jumped the Shark and to this day has the most comments on one of my posts ever). That unit was lost when my MacBook Pro developed an alcohol problem... Comment - Like
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Jun 13, 2011, 11:15 am
… least said the better. Catastrophic, disastrous, shit. That about sums it up.
On the bright said she did say I could have any diagnosis I want… that’ll be “Perfectly Sane Syndrome” then… Comment - Like
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Jun 12, 2011, 7:04 pm
… there was going to be a list.
I’ve been through this with HB – what I want. What would make me “happy”. What he’s “allowed” to say. I’ve been a lot more relaxed about that in V Place actually – letting him tell people about some of the stuff I experience.
But I realise ... Comment - Like
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Jun 11, 2011, 3:12 am
… sorry this post isn’t about mental health either. If you don’t want to hear me whinge then stop reading about a sentence ago.
I’ve had back problems since I was a child. Well since secondary school anyway – I blame playing hockey – all that bending:
see, that can’t be a good th... Comment - Like
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Jun 8, 2011, 6:12 pm
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
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As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak the truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoi... Comment - Like
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Jun 5, 2011, 12:17 pm
…This will probably be short as still not 100%.
After training last night I had started to develop a headache. I figured this was probably dehydration and figured I’d get home have plenty of fluids and a nice shower and feel much better.
I didn’t feel much better. I was wearing Scrubs (t... Comment - Like
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