Bollockybollockybollocky HTT

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Basically I have to take bloody diazepam three times a day and be visited by HTT every day and even then the nurse reckons it's 50/50 if I'll need to go into hospital or not. This has gone too far. I'm absobloodylutely sodding fine and visited the drop-in as I was worried I was going to become not-fine and wanted to know how to stop DP worrying unnecessarily after having spoken to CMHT as I was referred from GP as I wanted to avoid becoming depressed and how to maintain my current good humour and general sparkling and effervescent nature. The lesson apparently being that being responsible and proactive with your mental health gets you accused of poor insight and told to take drugs on pain of hospital admission.

She's really fucking scared me. I will not go into hospital. So to avoid it I have to swallow pills that make me slow and stupid and sleepy even though I am totally happy with the way I am now and it's everyone else who doesn't like it. Maybe its everyone else who needs bloody medicating.

I hate this so much. I know its a bad idea to get involved in MH services. So why do I ever go back?

That sounds incredibly difficult to cope with especially in a medical field (I'm assuming from your username you work in healthcare) but as I understand it the NHS has a reasonably adequate occupational health infrastructure and a union who can fight your corner for you to some extent? Also I assume it's rather like being a gynae with a prolapse - not something you want your colleague peering into.

I promise I'm not a narcissist - I told a psychiatrist once who was patronising me that I could beat him any day on an IQ test and he decided I was a narcissist. So what does that say about him?

I'm a psychiatrist in a CMHT. The NHS have been fabulous to work for and have supported me through many absences. I'm lucky in that I live far enough away from work to be in a different trust so my healthcare providers are not people I see everyday, that would be horrendous.

Anyway I am so sorry to have caused any worry to you MP especially as you are already vulnerable to mental suffering and you don't need to be having to think about random pointless people like me who you've never met and are never likely to meet unless you work in the south-east so I would urge you to please not worry about anything to do wih my posting and to follow the example of all the far more sensible MNetters who are wisely ignoring my consequenceless wimbling

God, ues, turning up to work and having to discuss case notes and who atw all the Maltesers out of ge Celebrations with someone who knows that three weeks ago aliens were telling you to drive to Portugal and shoot yourself in the head would be rather awkward.

Somebody always does steal all the Maltesers though. They're clearly the best ones.

I have such interesting conversations with people at the moment when I'm not drugged or depressed. I had an interesting chat with a chap who was collecting pennies from the side of the road and putting them in a tictac box. Apparently he sees a lot of then which other people don't see. And another fellow o had an interesting conversation with about the different colours of supermarket trollies.

Bounty beats Malteasers hands down.

Heathen.

Anyway dark Bounty is by far the superior bar, and Mars, in their infinite wisdom, have decided they will not be available to hoi Celebrations-munching polloi. So Maltesers Teasers it is. Though imagine how good they'd be in a dark version…

I'm amazed there are any permanent psychiatrists in any CMHTs anywhere. I was getting the impression that almost all psychiatrists working in the NHS were locums.

Loca?

No of course not because it's short for locum tenens, isn't it? So I'm applying the wrong declension etc. rules.

I agree the dark Bounty is vastly superior to the milk chocolate one but it's so hard to find. I may have to write a strongly-worded letter to Mars.

Though I prefer Lokum. Mental health services would be vastly improved by replacing every locum Doctor with a large box of pistachio and rose Turkish Delight.

Do you remember Dark Mars?

It had white nougat.

Locums. I'm a full time NHS employee and there are two other psychiatrists who work with me who are also permanent staff. Depends on the CMHT.

You can keep your Turkish delight but I'll have your hand off for the pistachios. And yes, I remember the dark Mars, it was lovely although clearly no one else thought the same.

I've heard interesting things about the Anerican Mounds bar which is apparently an equivalent to our a bounty bar but I suspect they use chocolate flavoured candy coating instead of chocolate which bypasses the point by several parsecs, and even if it is chocolate it'll likely have had part of its cocoa butter replaced with PGPR which is just the most horrendous additive designed initially to improve coatings properties but now used to substitute for cocoa butter so rich women can rub it into their wrinkly necks.

Lidl do lovely roasted UNsalted pistachios which I plan to buy for my rats next time I have any pet rats in order to watch any ensuing hilarity.

If you don't like turkish delight it's worth looking for some called Lokum or Loukoumi, or perhaps some made by a company called Hacizade.

Unless of course you've tried Turkish Deligjt made thre traditional way already. I'm jus aware that there are an awful lot of people who've had the substandard gelatine-based barely-flavoured artificial-tasting imitation-rose-water stuff foisted on them which has put them off for life.

I'll have to ask my brother's partner's sister how it is in Germany; she's a young people's psychiatrist there and it'd be interesting to see if they have the same issue with locums coming out of people's ears.

I wish I could find all these people who refuse to buy dark chocolate and shake them until they promise to buy the NICE chocolate bars.