"putting the SPRING back in our step - village support for depression and anxiety"

[LEMmingaround]

Heres the new thread guys. What is this, thread 9?

This is a thread that is situated in a virtual village of support for those suffering from mental health issues, or just those struggling with what life throws at them.

Please feel free to join in.

You can make that call, DD32!

I'm crying, the rejig of services means I will lose my psychiatrist. She's being replaced by a male psychiatrist.

Very odd, my CPN encouraged me to cry, I was trying to take deep breaths etc.

((( snowy ))) sorry ur feeling upset :( rejig are always hard to get through. My psychiatrist is changing too and they still have not told us when & who it will be so were all still in the dark!

Thanks DD32, sorry you're having changes. I've given in and ordered pizza

snowy your CPN was quite right to encourage you to cry - crying can help, if it's a response to life stuff, rather than ongoing misery iyswim? (And even then it can sometimes - but obviously not in the kind of HM visitation NN gets, for example.) During my divorce process I wanted a good cry but couldn't!

Cheese scones are currently my carb of choice, toasted with button on

? button - butter!

That makes sense, Shimmering, thanks. Cheese scones sound yummy!

welcome fuckitall, there there. Take it easy and be kind to yourself while you're feeling so fragile.

snowy sorry to hear about your change in psychiatrist that must be very unsettling. Crying is healthy though! (I used to cry more, but can't seem to on the fluoxetine )

tul I can sympathise re: feeling stressed, but they are there to give help. I have a couple of big plastic tubs that I can just throw toys into at the end of the day which is v useful.

hi shimmery cheese scones sound yummy esp with butter.

thanks dd did you manage to make the call?

Well I had a good day at college deconstructing a landscape picture into a more abstract painting which I enjoyed. Told my tutor and couple of friends about planned garden room and my tutor said I deserved it which was fab. We also put up an exhibition of one of each of our paintings from this term and I heard several compliments about mine .

So that has all really helped as I haven't been feeling great this week. Today anxious, brain fog, spaced out again.

My mum's awful comment to my dsis about her wedding dress has brought back some rubbish memories. Talking it through with my counsellor I'm wondering if one of the reasons I'm not forthcoming in conversations often is because I'm used to negative reactions from her so expect them elsewhere or just don't risk it.

p.s. lem hope you're ok.

Thanks CIQ. How is everyone doing?

I'm watching The Good Wife on 4od. Very good. Very spaced. How are you this eve?

Morning everyone.
Trying to drag myself out for a walk this morning....

Morning CIQ
Got a bit of a lie in as DD woke up later than usual :) just dragging myself out of bed... Got SS coming later so better tidy up the place! Really nervous about this visit as it is unannounced - they text me late last night to say they would be popping over
Also got to make the call to my cpn today re diazepam.
I need a pick me up this morning so it lots of & [biscuits] & time me thinks. Anybody want to join me?

Hope the visit went ok dd, I will join you in + biscuits.
Did get out for a walk, and came in and started altering some trousers (from massive flares to straight leg) and ordered some paint. So that's not bad going. Think I will have lunch now and then a nap. Mind is racing and I wish I could switch it off.

I hope SS goes ok, DD32 and sounds good, thanks. Well done for getting out, CIQ

Thanks ciq & snowy the visit went as well as can be expected. Like last visit they promised more help & support and so far nothing has been put in place today was much the same. I thought maybe someone complained about her well being & that's why I was panicking. I'm mentally drained now though as it was like a 2 hour meeting with them going over the same things as before!

Hope everyone has had a peaceful day & hope u all have a peaceful night

Gosh, I hope some good support is the result, DD32 Well done for getting through it.

I'm feeling low today, looking forward to bed time, can't go early.

I'm having a peaceful evening because 'D'H isn't speaking to me. Because I never consider his feelings and didn't ask his permission to sit at A&E last night for two and a half hours with a friend who was bleeding (11weeks pg) Any normal, caring husband or wife would have driven her there and left her and come home again What precisely was I expecting him to do, go to bed without his ear plugs in in case the children needed him? Ummm, yes, that was exactly what I was expecting you to do. Because leaving someone in the middle of the night in A&E, worried she might be told her baby had died, everything going on in a foreign language, having to make her own way home again was the better option. Seriously?

Hope you get some support dd and you have a speedy evening snowy

Well done tul sounds like you did exactly the right thing last night - and were a good friend.

snowy sorry to hear you're feeling low today. What are you up to now?

Does anyone else have a really foggy brain? I feel like I can't think straight, concentrate. And get halfway through a sentence and forget what I was going to say/can't think of the word I want?

((( tul ))), sounds like you did a good thing with your friend.

I'm just waiting for my carer to come, CIQ, then it'll be bed. I have trouble concentrating etc, particularly when the voices are bad.

Yes. Me! I do that. Today my mind is an absolute blank and I can't think at all. Also get phases where I can't (physically) focus on anything either, everything seems weirdly detached, it's all there and I can see it but swims in and out of focus. I can't remember things that happened only yesterday. Although I do remember being told it was better to have me as a friend than to be my husband. I spoke to my counsellor today and he told me to call my MIL whilst I could remember it so I did and gave her the whole story. At least they think he is being unreasonable.

This is a reason, I think why I can't get a job. Because I get blank headed and can't remember what we've been talking about in the interview not ten minutes before. Second interview is a nightmare, trying to recall what I've said before. My concentration abilities are non existent.

Curled up in bed but feeling agitated

((( Snowy ))) How are you today?
In bed too, remains of fluey thing. Bad sleep=poor immune system for me.
Nice to be in bed.

Unemployable and Ciq I have been like this for a while, memory like a goldfish. Write stuff down? Looks good in interviews if you make notes don't give yourself a hard time, jobs will happen when you are ready for them. It's the meds/MH/busy life, whatever

Hope SS are more supportive DD, they should tell you why they are there. Just do everything they suggest. Go with the flow

Where are you Lem ?

and and (((hugs))) for any that need it today

Thanks hoochy, hugs to you and to everyone. I've got a yucky cough and cold today.

I hope everyone has a good day and weekend.

Hey all,

((( snowy ))) hope u feel better soon & a big get lost to your voices!

tul u absolutely done the right thing by ur friend so be proud of urself for that :) it's not easy doing interviews but the more u do the more confident u will get & the note taking suggestion is a good one. As for memory like a fish I think that's something we all have in common thanks to the meds.

Thanks hoochy I'm not letting SS get to me anymore I'm done stressing over them. Like u said I'm going to just go with the flow! enjoy the bed rest :)

I've woken up pretty foggy today but have had a busy morning already thanks to DD so now I feel exhausted :( I've given in & now plonked her in front of the telly. I'm hoping for an easy afternoon with her now.

Lots of & for me today for sure :)