Autumn days in the village with lots of support for all kinds of MH problems - depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis etc

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Shiny new thread. xx

Sorry to hear about your friend LEM cancer is a bitch.

Sorry to hear you're struggling Fluffy. Can you find a friendly face to talk to and let them know?

NN no, I'm not so good, as my mood and energy has plummeted. Its under control and I have distractions planned for tomorrow, family around over the weekend and my care co coming on Monday.

On the bright side, my loss of appetite hopefully should make a dent in all the weight I've put on recently .

I have told them.

Sorry things are tough keema xx

Glad you've told them, fluffy

I'm sorry you're struggling, keema I hope you (and all) get a good night.

Ach, I'll be reet. :)

((Everyone)) sorry it's been a rough day all round xx

Well that's it. Polls are closed. Not sure I'll sleep tonight

Mind you, I'm surprisingly calm given that my anxiety can spin an apocalyptic scenario out of just about anything at the moment.

Night all x

fluffy you have been through this before - i have every confidence you will be well again. (((hugs)))

my internet is broken - my rats chewed the cable

ive checked on fb and my mother saw my msg this morning.....no reply. thats fine....it took me 3 years to reply to hers. im doubting she can really say anythng that makes me feel any better.
sorry is not in her vocabulary.

im more or less packed for my weekend retreat.....my buddist credentials were tested tonight when a huge house spider popped his head out....i did manage to put him out side though.

he can live in the garage.....

im hoping to get a lot out of this weekend - hope my expectations arent unrealistic. there is not meat, smoking or alcohol allowed....i may miss the alcohol bit.....

i told dh i messaged my mother. not told anyone else. it feels like i should be ashamed - dont know why.

hope everyone manages a good night. i wont post again probably until after the weekend.

stay safe everyone x

Enjoy your trip vicard
Well done for telling them how you feelFluffy they can help you now.
Glad your friend is home at least lem
Hope you feel better soon keema

I've been asleep in ds room since 7:30 when he went to sleep and I dozed off, managed to wake up enough to go downstairs to help Dh make his packed lunch (he I'd literally incapable of boiling an egg for his salad), dozed off stood up waiting for the water to boil, laughed at him a bit more because he's left his false teeth at work two hours drive away and come to bed and you guessed it now I'm wide awake!

On the plus side since I started my diet almost a month ago I've lost a stone and Dh slightly more! I'm just hoping no one notices which seems bizarre but I gained the weight as a teen as armour to protect myself and every time I've lost weight in the past as soon as someone says "you look great" I panic and gain all the weight back and more as quickly as possible. I don't think anyone really understands that though because you're supposed to like getting compliments but for me it's triggering.

Hope everyone sleeps well.

I have rats too, vicard. Ours are the reason why the phones no longer work upstairs and so many candles are held together by gaffer tape!

I have degus which are like their rat cousins in their chewing habits

I'm so relieved this morning. I didn't want to check the news, I had such a vivid dream it was going to be Yes and everything was awful

There wa too much uncertainty for it to really be yes, no one quite knew what would happen, there were threats and promises from both sides but not much actual plans from what I could see down here in deepest darkest Yorkshire.

I have to admit though I was so fed up with the yes campaigners blocking up my Facebook I've blocked most of my Scottish friends and no been on Facebook for a week, no it's no I could theoretically go back but I'm not sure I want to.

Ugh typos... You know what I mean.

I know what you mean, Spidey

I'd give FB a bit more time if I was you!

Have a good time vicard.
Glad to hear you had some unstressed time with your DS spidey
Sorry to hear about your friend LEM, she's lucky to have you.
Hows the maths going Snowy?
Hope everyone else is doing ok.

I'm exhausted. Not content with gashing a hole in my foot and bruising it by treading on a duplo flower of all things, I dropped a knife on my foot so not have a matching injury in exactly the same place on the top of my foot! I've got to keep going, next week is going to be awful...Reports from DS school are not great, I've got to sign things I'm not happy with, but not much I can do. All the things I've been trying to do the past few years as a SAHM I've been given as a "suggestion list" of how to help him. So, clearly, I am not good enough for him. I just can't do this much more. We are visiting my parents next week...and any misbehaviour is going to be met with "you don't beat him enough, if you did then he would behave" type comments. I need to sleeeeeeeeeep. Id very much like to crawl back into bed now, but I know I mustn't. Any tips for keeping going?

I know wah you mean pyrr when I've asked family for advice on how to deal with ds biting I was surprised by how many said "have you told him not to bite?" Oh no! I'd not thought of that! Or suggestions that I bite him back, yeah great idea, I'm going to show you what you shouldn't do by reinforcing to you that mummy thinks it's ok to do it and in the process harming my child? Not likely.

at these pets chewing!! My cat doesn't do that (thankfully)

Have washed and dressed, slept ok. Lots of messages yesterday. Bit of a dodgy night.

Hope everyone is ok.

Candles? I typed cables. No candles held together by gaffer tape here. That'd just be weird.

I am fine, got prescription for more antipsychotic but not sure if I bother to pick them up. It is nice to be loved by somebody, although I know there is something sinister in it.

Spidey: hopefully positive encouraging works. Family worker told me to tell my son how good he is every time he does something good. Kids apparently love that.

Enjoy your weekend vicar

Well done on the weight loss spidey - I've restarted calorie counting as of today, I look so fat.

Some of my Scottish friends are very upset I agree that yes was too uncertain.

I think I'm having a morning off the Maths pyrrh, CPN suggested a strategy for increasing concentration slowly. Poor you, that sounds like painful injuries

Keep talking to them, fluffy. Glad you slept ok.

It's nice to hear about all the pets

thornbird, they wouldn't have prescribed them if they didn't think you needed them...

bye for now peeps....im going to try not to use my technology while away but not sure i can last without checking in...but just in case i dont, have a good weekend all.
x

Hi all.
Hope weekend goes ok vicar. So sorry your friend is so poorly lem. Hi collar, spidey, snowy, etc etc!
Very quiet day here, everyone is at home, tired, kept looking at phone last night re referendum. Glad it's by. Will stay off fb longer though after the glance I had today. Horrible .
Feeling fragile and down and weary but calmer these last few days, less horrible thoughts

My cat brought me my citalopram from downstairs.

Am shattered - dd off school with a cold. Ddog1 woke me up in the middle of the night, tapping me on the head, shivvering, turned out a storm was brewing. Yes ddog1 very impressive but i would have slept through it if you hadn't woke me up!! Then dd woke at 5 and ive been awake since.

I am relived about the no vote too victrix x