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[ThatVikRinA22]

in honour of ed and her mountain ranges.....

welcome to thread 3 - this is a support thread for anyone needing a hand to hold while they get through depression or any other mental health problems - long term or temporary. All are welcome.

linky to old thread

Afternoon.

Having a bad day.

Didn't get out of bed till 12.30

I've managed to put dw on.

Dcs are moaning they are bored cos I won't take them anywhere.
Bored dcs become whiney and argumentative.

I have now retreated back to bed with painkillers and a hot wheat pack. Flat on my back is the only position im comfortable. as soon as i lay down i want to sleep.

Weak and feeble wave.

Easter Greetings to all you lovely folk [bugrin]. Got lamb basset in the oven.

ED you have been doing so much recently ...brilliantly . Neck pain is horrible and you are doing all the right things . I get the same and it always seems to take longer than you think to go . But it will . Look at your pillows and never let your hairdresser wash your hair backwards my doc told me . Glad your daughter enjoyed her sleepover with no bullying . You deserve your nap today x

UA hope your dad is comfy and recovering . Lovely you got egg from your DS . And thank you for flapjack .....delicious . Agree re work and how it makes us feel . You write lovely posts ....so empathetic x

CQ Been doing sun dance for you for your Lakeland break [buwink] huh as if that will work . It will as we know be beautiful regardless and I hope that the place works its magic on your tired BUT not defeated soul . Paint and sketch your recovery . Can the children join in and paint stones you find on the lakeshores ? Mine always adored skimming stones. Tired the dog out too trying to retrieve em .

Milly lovely to meet you . The work dilemna is such a difficult decision isnt it ? Hope you are having a good weekend ..a peaceful one that you enjoy .

Vicar Really pleased to read that other serving officers have given you very good advice re work . You have done all you can . Wait now for that lumbering ancient machine called Human Resources to call you . Dont feel bad or responsible anymore . They must come up with a practical plan for your return to work as their duty of care . You have been badly let down actually and could put in a complaint . Disengage your emotions if you can . Hard I know when you have put your all emotional and physical energy into your work . Took me a long time to realise this Vicar . You are a good cop and passed probation with good reviews . The system failed you. Not you. The System I learned eventually. Tick box culture and sadly true.
Hold your head up high as the good police woman you are / disengage your emotional input if you can/ speak your truth as you would anyway xx
The machine of large public organisations make us just numbers . So anything sent to you do not take personal .
Thinking of you a lot and good luck with the interview .

Right time to baste the lamb and dive into the freezer .

Hope Snowy and SPC ........lovelyLucy .....are peaceful and enjoying the Easter break . OH and Cairngorm lovely name and place x

Nina I think you may be away in Ireland ? Please call in here when you can wont you ? Love your posts .

Mama you ok ? Hope you are having nice weather and feeling better .

Off to baste the lamb yet again . My OH is looking forward and that is very nice but pressure yikes

Easter Greetings to all you lovely folk [bugrin]. Got lamb basset in the oven.

ED you have been doing so much recently ...brilliantly . Neck pain is horrible and you are doing all the right things . I get the same and it always seems to take longer than you think to go . But it will . Look at your pillows and never let your hairdresser wash your hair backwards my doc told me . Glad your daughter enjoyed her sleepover with no bullying . You deserve your nap today x

UA hope your dad is comfy and recovering . Lovely you got egg from your DS . And thank you for flapjack .....delicious . Agree re work and how it makes us feel . You write lovely posts ....so empathetic x

CQ Been doing sun dance for you for your Lakeland break [buwink] huh as if that will work . It will as we know be beautiful regardless and I hope that the place works its magic on your tired BUT not defeated soul . Paint and sketch your recovery . Can the children join in and paint stones you find on the lakeshores ? Mine always adored skimming stones. Tired the dog out too trying to retrieve em .

Milly lovely to meet you . The work dilemna is such a difficult decision isnt it ? Hope you are having a good weekend ..a peaceful one that you enjoy .

Vicar Really pleased to read that other serving officers have given you very good advice re work . You have done all you can . Wait now for that lumbering ancient machine called Human Resources to call you . Dont feel bad or responsible anymore . They must come up with a practical plan for your return to work as their duty of care . You have been badly let down actually and could put in a complaint . Disengage your emotions if you can . Hard I know when you have put your all emotional and physical energy into your work . Took me a long time to realise this Vicar . You are a good cop and passed probation with good reviews . The system failed you. Not you. The System I learned eventually. Tick box culture and sadly true.
Hold your head up high as the good police woman you are / disengage your emotional input if you can/ speak your truth as you would anyway xx
The machine of large public organisations make us just numbers . So anything sent to you do not take personal .
Thinking of you a lot and good luck with the interview .

Right time to baste the lamb and dive into the freezer .

Hope Snowy and SPC ........lovelyLucy .....are peaceful and enjoying the Easter break . OH and Cairngorm lovely name and place x

Nina I think you may be away in Ireland ? Please call in here when you can wont you ? Love your posts .

Mama you ok ? Hope you are having nice weather and feeling better .

Off to baste the lamb yet again . My OH is looking forward and that is very nice but pressure yikes

Thanks Bugs you're right the Lakes will look beautiful with snow-capped tops [busmile]. Savour every moment of your lovely lamb x

Daft i know but will you say Hello to those snow topped peaks for me CQ ?
Have not been for so long . Seriously [bublush] Ta x

My pleasure [bugrin] x

Oops double post sorry

Just popped on here quickly tonight. I have read all your posts today but i hope u will forgive me for not taking the time to reply - I would never do this normally & don't mean to be rude but it has been an awful 24 hours. I posted some of what went on in Chat for those that are interested, but basically problems with my mum's mental health has excalated very rapidly and driving up there in the morning to offer support (3 1/2 hour drive). My dad usually tries to kid himself that everythings fine, but the last couple of weeks he has deteriorated and we are all very worried about him. Every time i speak to him he can barely get more than a couple of words out before crying hysterically and has been without sleep for 5 days because of my mums health. It is not like him at all to be so emotional or fragile at all. He needs help but everyone seems powerless to help us... Tried crisis team but their hands are tied & her community psych team can't do anything till tuesday cos of bank holiday... Anyway I will be out of the loop for a little while - depending on what happens - but i wish you all a good few days, and for those who have had a rubbish day today, hope tomorrow is better x

a quick check in - and a "hello" to milly - sorry you are having such a trial at the min - hope your mum is ok.

not got much to say today so will keep it short.

hugs to all. x

Rubbish day here.

Level 1.5 all day.

Lots of time resting in bed but no sleeping. I can even crochet laying down now :o.

Did a load through the dishwasher. And a manual wash up.
Supervised dtds make tea including a delicious hot cross bun and marmalade pudding.

But haven't really done anything myself :(

Waves to everyone. Haven't been around mn properly for a few days so not sure what's going on with everyone. Waves though.

Night all.

not great here either egg

spent most of day at a level 1
only went to level 3 in order to hang out washing.....

have eaten too much chocolate
and drunk too much red wine

no word at all from work.
similarly not been here much as DD has had laptop most of time....

Well I could have predicted you didn't have a great day if I didn't .

I have no plans for tomorrow so I'm expecting more of the same.

Hoping xp will take dds tomorrow. They are going stir crazy with boredom. It's tge holidays and expect me to be doing stuff with them. But I can't. If im standing for more than an hour or so my neck/shoulder is burning with pain.

I can sit quite comfortably on the sofa as it is tge perfect height for me to rest my head back. Yhe only position which is properly comfortable is flat on my back.

Painkillers aren't really helping. Just hoping rest will work.

weirdly i have hurt my back.....did it last weds at the stables mucking out. So im a bit stuck in too....should have gone riding today but darent....back is killing.

Am taking it easy and not feeling bad about it.

hope your neck is better soon. im on the old diclofenac....try it for your neck.

Can you get diclofenac otc?

I'm really thirsty too but can't be bothered to get out of bed and get a drink.

i didnt, but if you speak to a gp over the phone they would probably prescribe them for you....

or get voltarol gel....its dicofenac in a tube.

right. best try to get some shut eye....another day busy doing nothing tomorrow.

I might have some in the tin ftom an old injury. I will have to look.

I musy sleep too...if not dd3 will have eaten all her eggs for breakfast by the time I get up.

Plus dtds were still rattling round their bedroom at 00.30. I'm determined to drag them out of bed by 10am...which means I will have to be up.

Night night all. Sleep tight.

Well am having a ball but not sleeping particularly well, nor are naps feasible now I'm in London not Ireland. I'll need to do some catching up when I get back home later this week.

This state has exacerbated my ADD - am contantly looking for things I have misplaced. I find them eventually - or, in the case of my nighty, realise that have left it at my cousin's place - but it's all the time now - if it's not my glasses it's my cigs, last night I got my pj's out of my suitcase and immediately couldn't find them.

Will respond to others when I am less zombie-like. Hugs to all.

Hi Milly, Vicar, Egg sorry to hear you're having a tough time at the moment. Milly I really hope your visit to your parents goes OK and you can at least provide some comfort to your dad. Thinking of you all. SPC hope you can find your phone/laptop and keep posting [buwink] I always think that sort of thing is worse when you're out of your usual home environment. Hope you have a good time in London.

I'm attempting to get out the house shortly to do a NT Easter Egg hunt thing with DH and DCs (but its freezing out there!)

Take care everyone x

Morning.

Im determined not to overdo it today.

A day flat on my back is in order I think...if the dcs will let me.

I'm still flat on my back.

But I am doing craft with dd3

I have visions of being stuck in bed forever...literally :o

i typed a post earlier on the mobile and then lost it....

just nipping in. Slow day for me....level 1 all day.

hope everyone else is ok - back any better for taking it easy egg?

Thats a pain.

I am much more comfortable thanks. Ive spent the vast majority of the day laying down. Mostly in bed but on the sofa now .

I have nitty gritty'd dd3.

I spent a couple of hours up and about. Cooked tea. Cleared up after. I've no dishwasher tabs so I washed up by hand. I actually kind of enjoyed it. I wiped round with a wet dishcloth because I had it in my hand. (I do normally spray and wipe...but I don't know I was just more enthusiastic about it).

It also means I will wake up to a nice tidy kitchen.

Dtds have put a couple of loads of washing on. I have a huge pile of dry washing to put away.

By tge time I had done all that I was quite sore.

Have done quite a bit of crochet flat on my back.

I also did some crafts in bed with dd3 earlier.

So...considering I have had such a lazy day I have actually acheived quite a lot....including no dayte sleep!

Hope everyone else has been quiet because they've had a relaxing and enjoyable bank holiday.

Lasted till now, but almost lost it with my beloved P's tonight. Regaining equilibrium by MNetting. I always forget that, love them though I do, tis very draining dealing with their particular models of the world - am now convinced both P's and me have AS, which means concentrating very hard as misunderstanding between all of us arise all the time I always need at least one day in bed after I've visited them or one of them has visited me

also starting to feedl claustrophic in London suburbs, homesick, and am missing DCat and someone else (who will still be away when I get back)

at egg's nice tidy kitchen

Oops...ive only just woken up.

Poor dd3 has been entertaining herself for 2+hrs :(

And my neck still hurts :(

Maybe I should go to bed before 3am tonight :o