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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Welcome to this thread, whether your own mental health difficulty is severe, moderate or mild. And if you care for someone with MH problems, you are also welcome. Carers and 'sufferers' can help and learn from each other. We all have something to contribute.
Here we ask for help and/or advice, we share experiences, setbacks and successes however large or small, we enjoy gentle banter and leg-pulling.
There are no rules for this thread. All we ask is that posters be considerate to others and are not confrontational.
By the way, you will find references to Pumpkins and Treaclers. (or similar)
Pumpkins stay up late at night and turn into Pumpkins at midnight. They aim to be bright and cheerful like their namesakes but if they feel dull and mildewed, they are free to admit it.
Treacly ones find it hard to get going, especially in the morning. Some describe it as 'floating through a fog.'
But however dozy we may be, we're all friendly.
It's safe here - AND we have a Guardian Dragon to watch over us.
So come and join us if you feel this thread is for you.
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Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Thankyou for starting the new spring thread Mermaid :0)
I care for my husband who never knows what each new day will be like and I learn a lot from this thread.
If I had a bottle of champagne handy I would chuck it over this new thread to wish you all a happy life :0))
Westie
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Thank you Mermaid.
A frosty but bright morning here.
Hope all Pumpkins and Treaclers have a peaceful day, and achieve one or two things, but if you don't, it isn't really that important
Lindyx
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Good morning to all - I thought I'd step out of my usual lurking mode to say hello and thanks for starting the new thread, Mermaid.
Things have got a little treacly for me lately - too many triggers going off at once, unfortunately. But I've been here before, as it were, and know I will be feeling better at some time, and with the help of friends and family, I'll get there.
A peaceful day to all.
Fluff x
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Welcome all to the new thread
Thanks Retired and Hattie and others for messages. Not a good day yesterday. I absent-mindedly managed to lose my wallet. Spending this morning cancelling cards. Trying to keep hold of the 'don't react, respond' mantra and putting it down to experience.
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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Pleased to do so.
Very foggy when I looked out the window first thing - but it's now cleared and the sun's out.
A good sign for this thread.
I felt very relaxed after the Reiki yesterday and the mood has lasted. Feel very calm still, and able to do things at my own pace.
No idea how it works, but something seems to have happened.
Off to meet friends for our weekly crochet get-together.
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What a lovely opening post. I wish all the posters to this thread a peaceful day.
LynnieP x
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Posted by Retired-Rural-Person (U8479978) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:58 GMT, in reply to LynnieP in message 7
Good morning, and thanks to WFM for opening, especially liked the idea of mildewed pumpkins which is a pretty accurate description of me right now.
The sunshine this morning is helping.
Fascinating to hear the Reiki effect is still there.
Oh, Yumyum, the card cancelling was really something you didn't need, but you are still managing to do the "Don't react, don't respond" Bravo! You will get there.
Retired
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Best Wishes to everyone who posts/lurks & gets help from this thread
tx
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And to those that don't.
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Posted by tinners-hare (U9904261) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Snork Lemming.
And thank you WFM for starting this lovely, shiny noo thread. Very nice OP.
And best wishes to everybody for a good day.
xxxxx
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Not sure about those that dont..........
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Posted by celladefarm (U13688521) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Hello All,
I am a carer and also get depressive episodes.
I find confrontation difficult as I have enough of it at home, so I am very relieved and heartened by the positive vibes coming from this thread so far. I had a reflexology session today, ... long overdue for a bit of 'me' time ... and it felt good so I am going to have one again next week. I hope everyone is aiming for a good Spring. Speaking for myself, January has been a bit rough, but it's nearly over now. Cella
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Posted by tinners-hare (U9904261) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
It must be very tough at times being a carer Cella.
January can be an unforgiving month so here's to the Spring.
Well done on giving yourself some 'me' time. I did the same actually - went to a bookshop, had a coffee, read the paper for a bit, looked round the books and then.........bought some books...yikes!!!
My own little indulgence.
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Posted by celladefarm (U13688521) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Thanks Tinners. It took me some time to poke my head over the parapet. 'Brave front' time at present, and feeling a bit vulnerable. It always passes, and things always get better.
I am right up there with you on the 'books' bit.
I love books with a passion. Getting lost in another world can make all the difference for me between an 'Ikky' day and an 'Okky' Day.
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Posted by mistress cullis (U11030571) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Hello and best wishes to everyone on this nice, shiny new thread!
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Hello everyone
I read, but rarely contribute to the MH threads.
This year has started well after a difficult 2008.
I started a little voluntary job today, working with visually impaired people; tomorrow I see someone from a local MH charity about doing some work for them. I've got more structure to my days, and the bipolar seems to be under control by medication and gentle support.
Best wishes to all,
SJ
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Posted by Sunny Clouds (U7606212) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Hello Superjan. I recently started some new voluntary work and I'm enjoying it. The only bore is that I'm on benefits, so whenever I change from one voluntary work to another, I have the whole saga of declaring my new employment details to the DWP and waiting forever for a form with "voluntary work approved" scrawled across it.
I hope your voluntary work goes well.
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Fluff, just thought I would say sorry that you're not feeling good at the moment. (I don't usually post in here but as I have had the pleasure of meeting Fluff a couple of times I hope people will excuse me for 'butting in'). I hope things will get better for you soon.
Wx
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Posted by Angua - the vegetarian werewolf and Official Shoe Monitor (U3750755) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Hello all in our new home..
Just bookmarking really as my time clock is still not back on '9 to 5' and therefore I need sleep...
Best wishes
Angua the Werewolf
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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Good to see 'Old Friends' here and 'New Friends' as well, too many to mention individually, I'm pleased to say.
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Posted by Hattie (the world hasn't ended, yet) (U8584440) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Hello all, welcome.
I'm bi-polar, on lots of meds and intense therapy. Sometimes I'm very active and creative, sometimes I can't lift my head off the pillow.
O/h is my carer, he is an Aspie.
Today was a good day, I coped.
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Posted by Sunny Clouds (U7606212) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
There seem to be lots of us bipolars on this board at the moment. I came to TA as a change from bipolar boards and I've gravitated back towards fellow bipolars. It's a bipolar world!
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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Glad you've had a good day, Hattie.
Just off to bed - I'm getting up at 5 to have breakfast as I've got an ultra sound scan at 12 and mustn't eat or drink for 6 hours before it.
So at 5.30, fed and watered, I'll go back to bed.
See you all tomorrow. Sleep well.
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Posted by Angua - the vegetarian werewolf and Official Shoe Monitor (U3750755) on Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Good luck WFM for tomorrow
And glad your day was good Hattie
Angua
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Posted by Sunny Clouds (U7606212) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Another day when my voluntary work has destabilised my moods. I hold it together during the day and lose it in the evening. All I can do is to hope that my moods level out before I alienate everyone.
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Posted by DragonFluff (U6879248) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
In reply to Pahnda in message 19
Thanks to Pahnda for her message, and to the people who have contacted me off board with their kind words.
Fluff x
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Posted by organists wife (U5330167) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Just like to send everyone my best wishes.
OW
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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Morning all.
I looked in about 5 am, but there were no lights on.
This Pumpkin was all on her own (Aaah of sympathy) so had her breakfast and went back to bed.
Tongue hanging out with thirst.
Funny, I always resolve to drink more water and tend to forget.
Now I can't drink, I'm having to force myself away from the tap.
Oh well.
No, that's a watery remark.
3wells, stay away from me.......
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Posted by Hattie (the world hasn't ended, yet) (U8584440) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Good luck for today WFM
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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Thanks, Angua, Hattie &Co.
I'll let you know if there are any Merbabies on the way.
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Morning.
Its nice to see an assortment of peeps in here. I also want to send best wishes to Fluff, hope things improve very soon.
Good luck Mermaid for your scan. Sending positive vibes your way.
Well I have got a visit to the dentist planned for later this morning. A small filling (I hope), but I am quite 'jumpy', and just want to get it over and done with. But in the greater scheme of things its no big deal
Take care, Lindyx
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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Thanks, Lindy.
Hope the dentist isn't too bad. I'd rather have a scan
Apart from the gel that gets everywhere, it's no problem. I quite enjoy seeing my insides.
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And the gel is always so cold
Lindyx
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Hello, thanks for starting a new thread - I've lurked a bit but found the large number of postings overwhelming.
I don't know what I am, been on anti d's for sometime and just had my dose upped, and am back with the Local Mental Health Care team. Dunno if I should be, maybe I'm just a lazy and miserable person by nature.
Not having a good day.
But still think that chucking a bottle of champagne over a thread is a terrible waste. It should be drank and relished (no offense to anyone with alcohol dependancy or similar).
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Posted by DragonFluff (U6879248) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
In reply to Swedey in message 35
maybe I'm just a lazy and miserable person by nature.Â
You are me and I claim my £5 (sorry, don't have any krona at the moment).
This is the thought pattern I get into when I'm low, and it takes a lot of talking to myself to convince the me inside that it's not true. It's not true of you either, I'm sure.
I'm having a better day today, so have some of my positivity. But only if I can have some of that champagne.
Fluff xx
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Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
I've had a pumpkin/champagne moment on flickr and found the following which seems to be a warning to all pumpkins about the dangers of drinking too much champagne ....
so on the understanding that I am not responsible for the consequences please help yourselves ...
:0)
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Posted by Mermaid the Swishy-Fishy-Tailed Wise One (U10731448) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
We're not depressed because we feel lazy and miserable.
Depression makes us feel lazy and miserable.
Don't you dare argue with me!
If I can accept that, I feel less miserable. Still as lazy, but less miserable.
Though rather than lazy, maybe we should think that since our brain is out of balance, it's much harder to make the effort and motivate ourselves. Exactly how I feel at the moment.
And that's where this thread can help.
If several of us are feeling unable to do anything, we can agree each to go and do something, however small. It worked a few weeks ago and I actually managed to get something done and feel better about myself. I also made the effort so that I didn't let others down by not keeping my promise.
I hereby decalre that I will now google a crochet term for a new stitch, email my brother, and, if time, put the rest of the shopping away.
After that we'll have a (very) late lunch and watch Countdown.
By the way, I'm sorry to disappoint my fans, but there was no sign of any little Merbabies swimming around this morning. Nothing unusual at all showed up, so I still don't know what's wrong. Only what isn't, which is something, I suppose.
The person doing the scan (over-generous with the gel as usual, but it wasn't too cold as remarked up-thread) was quite puzzled that she couldn't find my gall bladder till I explained I'd had it out in 2005. She'd have had a real job to find my appendix - that went in 1952 in the Jenny Lind Hospital in Norwich. (is it still there?).
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Posted by woofti aka groovy gravy (U1483210) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
In reply to DragonFluff in message 36
Is this the new mental health thread?
I hope so. I wanted to report on the psychiatric session I had with the nurse.
At the time I was very deeply affected by the intensity, depth and reality of the encounter on Friday. It shook me up and it has taken until today to process the things that happened. To complicate matters, I have been neglecting to take my medication of late - I started again properly a day or two ago and I'm settling down again on it - and this made all the upheaval that much more so.
What the nurse is doing is standing as a canny rock and all my twistings and turnings gradually unravel. This is very good psychologically. I have always assumed that my psychiatric illness is psychological in origin, and patient of a cure by proper human encounter-intervention with a skilled professional.
Last Friday challenged me and I have been processing it and I think, making progress. I was in Sainsbury's yesterday and was feeling close to the human interpersonal reality that obtained there. This, to me, is the Holy Grail - connectedness - and I am hopeful for good progress with the nurse as well as with the psychological counselling they have promised me.
A beautiful poem by Goethe, translated by Lena and Daniel Platt:
But who is that apart?
In the underbrush his path loses itself.
Behind him
The shrubs clap together,
The grass stands up again,
The wasteland engulfs him.
Ah, who heals the pains
Of him, for whom balsam became poison?
Who drank hatred of Man
Out of the fullness of love?
First despised, now a despiser,
He furtively consumes
His own merit
In unsatisfying egotism.
If there is in Thy Psalter,
Father of love, one note
To his ear audible,
Then refresh his heart!
Open his clouded gaze
To the thousand springs
Next to the thirsting one
In the desert!
woof x
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Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
The Jenny Lind Infirmary in Pottergate was opened in 1853 on the basis of a sum of £1,253 that had been raised from two concerts given in Norwich by Jenny Lind, the Swedish singer, during 1849. By 1898 the Pottergate premises had become unsuitable for use as a children's hospital and in that year it was moved to Unthank Road where an in-patient block was erected on a site purchased by Jeremiah James Colman in memory of his wife. In 1918, known as the Jenny Lind Hospital. Out-patients continued to be seen at Pottergate until 1929 when facilities were provided for them on the Unthank Road site. From 1929 the hospital was closely associated with the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital so far as staff and administrative arrangements were concerned. Control of the hospital passed from the Board of Management to the Norwich, Lowestoft and Yarmouth Hospitals Management Committee in 1948; subsequently to the Norfolk Area Health Authority. In 1976 the last patients were treated on the Unthank Road site, patients now being seen in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. The Jenny Lind Hospital was demolished in 1976 and the Colman Hospital for the younger chronic sick built on the site.
copied from:
nrocat.norfolk.gov.u...NNH/2')
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Posted by tinners-hare (U9904261) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Hello to everybody on this drizzly Wednesday evening.
Best wishes to all especially those feeling fragile like DragonFluff. Hope you start to feel better and more positive soon. I often wonder about the laziness issue but actually I think the real problem is one of inertia. It's the getting -going that is somehow often so hard.
Hello woofti - thank you for the poetry.
Best wishes to everybody else.
WFM.....I'm a bit disappointed that there aren't any more Merbabies on the way....
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Posted by tinners-hare (U9904261) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Soz, Swedey that you've been feeling low today.
I hope tomorrow is an improvement.
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Thanks t-h, feeling fragile but happy that I got through today. Luckily OH didn't quiz me on what I've been doing, but instead we've had a nice evening talking about other stuff.
Off to bed in a minute, why is it so tiring (sp?)too feel down?
Must take dog for more of a proper walk tomorrow. That's my goal.
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Posted by tinners-hare (U9904261) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
Swedey, I just nipped in and saw your post.
Apparently, amotional energy burns more cals than physical energy which is why it is sooo exhausting feeling that way.
I hate it when OH asks me about my day - I think he knows now that it just makes me feel even more inadequate.
Best of luck with the dog-walk. The dog will love it and it's good for us to get out and about. Exercise really is good for the soul.
A happy Thursday to you.
XXXXXX
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Posted by tillytrolly (U8311312) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
OI, TINS AND A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE ON THIS THREAD !!!!!
No need to feel inadequate....you're helping a lot of people get through, you know, even tho you might not realise it (& if you didn't need a bit of help yourselves, sometimes, you wouldn't know how to do it)
tx
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Posted by tinners-hare (U9904261) on Wednesday, 28th January 2009
OI, TILLS........YOU LOVELY PERSON YOU!!!!
Thanks, Hon. xx
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Morning.
I was somewhat relieved to hear that there are no imminent MerBabies on their way . Hope they get to the bottom of your problem soon, Mermaid
I think the feeling of guilt we experience are all 'part and parcel' of MH problems. Apologies if that sounds flippant and simplistic, its not meant to be
Keep warm Pumpkins and Treaclers, Lindyx
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Morning! Feeling a bit better today, still feeling pleased that I got through yesterday without breaking down in anyway - ah for small steps.
Took the dogs out for a good walk this morning (mine and next door's), am now dealing with Swedelet's wet bed (first in nearly a year, but I could have done without it at 2am).
I need a list of todos for today, so might as well write it here if you don't mind:
Sort washing out before it goes mouldy
Tidy spare bedroom/office so that I have at least a small chance of being able to work, if not today, tomorrow
Take OHs passport application to post office
Food shop
Anything in top of that will be a bonus. Oh, and I'm due to go to circuit training with a friend tonight and will really, really try to do that.
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Posted by Westsussexbird or Birdy aka Westie (U6316532) on Thursday, 29th January 2009
Swedey, 3 out of 4 of those things constitute my 'todo' list as well ... but add 'Tidy whole house' to my list :0))
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Yes well, I thought about adding that to my list too westie, but I know I would be setting myself up to fail!!
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