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Mental health

Full Mental Normality

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:16

Kubricking it.

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:20

Oh yes. This being a thread in which people discuss mental normality and lack thereof, what's for tea, and occasionally, for some reason, horses, running, and peculiar best friends.

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:26

And indeed anything else they fancy.

Everyone welcome.

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GallicIsCharlie · 26/01/2015 03:28

Lovely thread, Enpo. I like the relaxed, late-night ambience. Kind of speakeasy, with all the low lights and red velvet :)

I did half white flour and half 'country grain' to make it more interesting. One of my best efforts was when I used soup instead of water - I want marmalade on tomorrow morning's bread, though, and it might not go with soup!

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:32

I see absolutely no reason why bread with the soup already baked into it shouldn't sell at artisan bakeries for £6.50 a loaf. A truly revolutionary concept Grin

You've made me fancy cocktails now, which is not at all practical at 3.30am when all I have is zubrowka, JD, lovage cordial, Curaçao (yes I still have it), and own-brand Ribena.

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:35

Going to read my book for a bit. It's a bit peculiar but I think I trust Pat Barker.

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GallicIsCharlie · 26/01/2015 03:36

Oh, self-employment & depression! It was swings and roundabouts, really. Good points were being able to choose when to work, and getting obsessively lost in it as distraction - probably not best for mental health, but very productive results-wise. Downsides were lacking confidence to win new business, being pissed off with clients' dumb questions, and not having the energy to say No. That last one could blight any self-employed person, though, I think.

If/when I get better, I'd rather work for myself than a company. A side effect of all this therapy is that I've got too much bloody insight in some ways: I find it hard to keep my mouth shut when people are wittering on dysfunctionally Blush and am even more liable to come out with uncomfortable truths than I was before!

I'd probably make a good bar tender, mind you. Everyone could tell me their problems Grin

GallicIsCharlie · 26/01/2015 03:37

Curaçao and Ribena would make a very attractive cocktail! I'm not liking the thought of its flavour though ...

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:39

Swings and roundabouts, then, I guess? I think I would struggle most with self-motivation and organisation - always the first things to go for me. Also have zero marketable skills. But it sounds like in a lot of ways working for yourself has really worked well for you Gallic.

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:40

Yes... The blue of the Curaçao, the purple-red of the Ribena, the green shade of the face of the person drinking it…

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:41

Oops, YOU said swings and roundabouts! I thought that was something I was thinking Grin

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GallicIsCharlie · 26/01/2015 03:42

I've never been organised at any stage of mental normality & employment Grin

Just looked up Pat Barker: "Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken." Sounds great!

Happy reading, and I'm going back to bed (again).

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:43

You can often easily identify a heavily therapised person, in conversation. Turns of phrase, ways of conceptualising things…

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GallicIsCharlie · 26/01/2015 03:43

Cheers for the unfeasibly loud laugh at your cocktail colour scheme! x

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:46

Wink

Nighty night Gallic, brightandbreezy if you're around, and any stray nocturnal lurkers.

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toothpasteinthetree · 26/01/2015 07:40

Morning all! I do like the unexpectedness of the brevity of this thread title.

Millie2013 · 26/01/2015 08:02

And me ^^ :)

brightandbreezyNot · 26/01/2015 08:06

Morning. Sorry missed saying night,enpoid an charlie. I did eventually sleep at 4am.woke at 7am. Still coughing. Hope you are all well x

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 08:34

4-7am sucks bright Sad Glad you got something tho. Hope the cough improves.

I read until just after 5, I think.

Morning Tooth and Millie.

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Mitchy1nge · 26/01/2015 09:08

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

CaulkheadUpNorth · 26/01/2015 09:13

Happy Birthday Grin
Have you got exciting birthday plans?

Ivytheterrible · 26/01/2015 09:47

Happy Birthday Mitchy. I'm a January baby too!

toothpasteinthetree · 26/01/2015 09:48

Happy Birthday Mitchy Grin Birthday omelette to celebrate?

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toothpasteinthetree · 26/01/2015 09:59

WRT to the discussion before about hearing music - I currently have an extremely trashy cover version of "You Raise Me Up" playing in my head.

Enpoid · 26/01/2015 10:00

Happy birthday!

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toothpasteinthetree · 26/01/2015 10:01

And my bike has broken, which leaves me either

a) Stranded at work overnight

or b) Needing to wheel it two miles to where Google claims to be the nearest repair place.

My current level of mental normality seems to be making a complicated decision out of it.

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