Hello to everyone who remembers me - lovely to see all the familiar names. Just popping by to see how everyone is. So glad you have managed to get back to work Vicar and even if you do decide the job is not for you, at least you are back and no longer ruminating about whether you will cope etc - and the mentor sounds good. Take things steady though, and be kind to yourself because you are no longer mentally ill and you want/need to stay that way!
Hi Ed - I see you are still dashing around but sounds like you are doing ok as you manage to do parties for children and all sorts. I did pop by and didn't post and you were having problem with a "friend" and the Brownies - hope you're sorted on that one.
HiSnowymouse lovely to hear you and know you are out of hospital. As SPC says, hopefully as you get used to the meds (which I assume have been increased) you will feel less hungover, but if not, this is someting to discuss with the pyshciatrist. Can I ask what you are writing - a book maybe? Belated Happy Birthday!!
Oh and a big Hello to the lovely Bassetfeet - I love your posts - they are so comforting and they sound like you are talking rather than writing - an enviable skill. I share your pain with things technological but I can turn the TV on! Can't put a DVD on though, and like you I have to write everything down. Think it's our age - kids today are born into the age of technology. My 3 year old grand-daughter knows how to put on a CD/DVD - get the programme she wants on the i player and lord knows what else. She gets quite inpatient with me! I always think you spend a lot of time empathising and not much time saying how things are for you, but you did mention a sadness. Hope that if the sun ever shines you will feel a teeny bit less sad.
I've only looked at this last page but I don't want to leave out CinQ or SPC or UA but don't think I knew (or remembered) your back stories though I think you once described yourself as an "ageing hippy" SPC sorry if I have that wrong. Yes and I think you said you had long silvery grey hair. Sounds lovely, even if I've got it wrong!!
I am much better these days since I was assessed about 6 weeks ago by a new psychiatrist. I had an awful Jan and Feb and finally phoned the CPN who I had seen briefly after my usual one left, and she came out to see me. I told her more than I'd told anyone else (sheis lovely) and about my suicide plan which I had worked out and had visited the spot on more than one occasion and she said she didn't like what she was hearing, and was going to get a psychiatrist out to see me (a different one from the first one who I disliked) and to my amazement he phoned a couple of days later at about mid day and asked if he could visit that afternoon. I was having a bad day but my anxiety levels shot up and I was wishing I hadn't told my CPN about my suicidal thoughts. Anyway he was lovely and added mirtazapine to the ADs I am already taking, and is seeing me next month and seeing CPN monthly. So far so good.....................but I don't want to tempt fate.
Oh yes before I go - Vicar I simply cannot believe that you have pet rats - I am totally terrified of them whether they are white, grey, brown whatever and out of a cage .......aaaaaaargh. The thought of them running up your legs and on your shoulder makes me shudder!!!