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?

DP is watching the F1 on RTL. It's helping me with my German, I suppose. Not sure how helpful it will be to be able to say "marbles on the track" or "Vettel is coming up the inside" over the Christmas dinner table but thankfully my Germans all speak good English.

So glad the fillet steak didn't go to waste

Tell me you don't live with another manic depressive?!

It's bad enough in my house with two depressives.

YUM

CHANA MASALA O'CLOCK

I might go fucking mental and have a bit of naan with it

have enjoyed chat, thanks :)

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Jesus Christ no, DP has perfect mental health, she's just very disorganised and unreasonably fond of hanging on to every piece of paper that comes into the house.

Ooh chana masala and a naan. Sounds fucking awesome and I've just eaten chilli and tortilla

Enjoy your curry mitchy

Fair enough; I was thinking, that could get very hectic

I once had a completely insane psychiatrist who diagnosed folie à deux in me and DP

(lucky in my house it's just me with my bipolar and assorted other mental disorders and 15yo with her social communication disorder, OCD, depression, anxiety etc but the cats and dogs all seem pretty normal for their species - the older children have left home with their mental problems and largely lost them on the way, yay)

People throw away pieces of paper? But why? How? What if they need them?!

Hooray Mitch

food is not here yet, it was some other vehicle passing by :(

life can be so cruel sometimes :(

I mean really, folie à deux? Does she know what that even is and how rare it is?

She was the one who told me olanzapine had no side effects, though

Nooooo! Life is so cruel! Hang on, daal WILL happen.

It's not just pieces of paper it's untold quantities of newspapers, magazines and journals. Read them and throw them away!!!!

I can safely say I've never see a case of folie a deux.

hoarder

I on the other hand apparently have an inability to put anything away. It's probably true. I get distracted while in the middle of things quite a lot.

Exactly. I think she meant that our both having MH problems was detrimental to us as we exacerbated each other in a feedback loop or something. Because if she really did think we had folie à deux, I'd be expecting her to want to write me up for one of the journals where people publish rare case studies.

Well, there's nothing to say psychiatrists can't be fucking idiots

The trouble for me is having an "away" to put things in. The chaos is now such that I can't even get the floor of one room clear to hoover.

She sounds like an idiot.

so many seem to end up in psychiatry only because they can't get a job elsewhere

I think it could be promoted much more attractively to med students at an earlier stage

Not that I have ever hoovered in my life

hurry UP food

I need time to digest you a bit before I go to bed before I wake up early enough to have porridge and digest that a bit before I lead my running group in the morning