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

Thanks fluffy :)

NanaNina - aww please don't lurk and be on the thread! You are a great support and adviser in the village. I for one always welcome your posts :)

Hope everyone else is ticking along...

I am having an evening of pizza, strictly and xfactor :)

YIPPPEEEEE collar! Well done :o

Well done collar!

I have forgotten to do my daily positives. I feel much better this morning having spent yesterday in a state of constant panic.

Today is that I'm really excited about seeing my friends today! Meeting them at the station to walk along to the harvester for lunch then coming home for games etc. We are all board game geeks and DH and I hardly make time to play anymore.

Yesterday's positive was that I kept having to pull my jeans up - I guess getting back to the school run (which is now longer due to two different schools) after stagnating all summer has helped me lose a bit of the flab :o :o :o

Oh and what I also wanted to say thank you for all the hugs while I was feeling so crap. This thread is so great :)

Pyrrh and fuzzpig - thanks!! :)

My positive of the day is that I am up and feel actually fairly good this morning after a decent sleep.

The sun is out after yesterday's gloom, so will enjoy a sit in the autumn sun in my garden reading the paper. Then later make a full roast dinner yum!

The only tiny low point will be the hordes of cooking apples my neighbour brought round a couple of days ago need peeling and cooking!! Another neighbour gave a box of runner beans, plums and apples from their garden too!
My kitchen resembles a farmers market!!!!
So I will have copious amounts of peeling to get through, then have enough fruit for 100 crumbles stored in my freezer!!

Hope everyone has a decent day today :)

Sorry for disappearing from the thread I was admitted to hospital,on wknd leave at the moment. Feeling no better, apart from the suicidal thoughts have gone. They have tweaked a couple of my meds but haven't felt any benefit yet. I'm so desperate to feel well and look after my family again instead of the other way round.

I hate being in hospital, the worst part is the night times I'm not sleeping and feel trapped in my room, the night staff just bark at me to go back to bed and practise my deep breathing exercises. The anxiety wells up so badly that I just end up rocking and crying in my room for hours on end.

Sorry to hear that Juney I hope your meds kick in and your start to feel better really soon x

Sorry to hear this juney - when I was in in 2003 I could talk to the night nurses on constants for others if I needed to, the last time (earlier this year) it was clear I was a nuisance! (Awake 2 nights out of 21 or so, because managed not to take the quetiapine those nights. I almost had a feeling the quetiapine was to keep me quietly asleep - not completely true as I did need some good deep sleep.)

Have you tried asking the staff if you can be prescribed something to help you sleep? I was written up for some sort of calming pills, to be given as the nurses saw fit.

I was in with hypomania, not depression/anxiety. But it seems to me that your suicidal thoughts going must be a sign of progression towards recovery.

Hi all, today has been ok so far, though I've only been up a couple of hours!
nethuns I started a low dose of Quetiapine recently, swapping from Trazodone..seems ok so far, no side effects except for light-headedness for the first few days and it helps with sleep.
MP lighting the fire sounds nice, is it a woodburner? I love autumn smells. Good luck for Monday.
Hello Bipolarity
Collar congrats
Victrix hope the tiredness lifts, I like the sound of a nest.
Hi to snowy Nana Keema fluffy spidey fuzzpig
Hi to Juney ((hugs))

Hi violets we're lucky enough to have a large inglenook fireplace so no wood burner for me.

Had a nice morning horse riding with DP and now worrying about work tomorrow. My lithium tremor is really bad today which is making life difficult.

Another nest day for me. Today my face is less red but it is scaly- stupid moisturiser

Hope today has been decent to you all

Hi Pussycat, I am on meds to help sleep but they only keep me asleep a couple of hours and even then its strange dreams that I wake in and out of. I'm also on diazepam in the day and promesazine (probably spelt wrong).

Good luck for tomorrow, mp

Thinking of you all, I'm struggling at the start of another week.

MP - I hope you ease in gently to your first day back at work tomorro.
Good luck :)

Snowy - Sorry you are struggling today. Let's hope tomorrow is a kinder day to you (((hugs)))

Juneywoony - So sorry to read your post. I echo fluffy and hope your meds make a difference and you feel better soon.

Victrix - Pleased that your skin has calmed down today :)

Violet - thanks - I am looking forward to the new job, slighty terrified though!

(((Hugs))) to Nethuns, Pyrrh, Fuzzpig, Spidey, Nana, Fluffy, Silvery, Pulled and Keema.

Going to get a bag of crisps and settle down to watch downton :)

Good luck at work today MH

Sorry you feel low snowy

Well done on your weight loss fuzz

Having a quiet day, hoping I come off these obs today.

Hi everyone. I don't like hospital either - I hope you're feeling better juney.

I just don't like how quetiapine makes me feel. If anything I feel more agitated and less able to make reasonable decisions about stuff. Also my sexual behaviour has gone weird - always a bad sign :( I am afraid that I will get worse before I get better.

Is there anyone medical you can tell, bipolarity?

(((( fluffy ))), I hope you are well enough to come off constants too.

Hi bipolarity I second snowy's suggestion of getting in touch with your CPN or psychiatrist.

fluffy you're still on constants? Here's hoping today is the day that something changes.

First day back was fine, just focussed on getting back up to speed with patient notes. Have an eating disorder clinic first thing tomorrow morning.

Glad to hear it was fine, and good luck with the ED clinic tomorrow. I've always thought psychiatry must be very draining (but worth it).

I feel exhausted, curled up in my sleeping bag in the sitting room because it's chilly today. I've got a sore red patch the size of my palm where my flu jab went.

snowy DP and I both had the exact same reaction to the flu jab. It was quite unpleasant this year.

Good to hear it's not just me - I didn't have any reaction before. Sorry you've got it though.

I've got an appointment on Wednesday so I'll bring it up then.

(((( bipolarity ))))