Issues at the interface of Mavis, community-based psychiatric services and the mentally normal

[Mitchy1nge]

I think that covers us all?

my septum and the overstretched norfolk and suffolk mental health partnership trust both

And probably some Bolivian donkeys, too.

some interesting blogs and stuff to read here if you want a distraction

the best one, by the world's most foremost, hasn't been updated for ages, perhaps they are busy finishing their book

Thanks; looks interesting. I should try and get out of obsessing about psychiatry and mental health though. It's not healthy.

no, thinking about running is much better :)

what other things do you like?

At the moment, thinking about different ways to die.

Also, when my concentration is back from wherever it has been lately, reading various sorts of fiction. I have a two-book-deep two-foot-high to-read stack

And watching TV, and reading popular science, and stuff. Nothing worthy of a dating profile entry though.

Today, am on mission to not eat anything. Unfortunately DP will cook food and put it in front of me.

I got into music once; have oceans of guitar equipment lying around I haven't used for years. And I liked painting and drawing a lot in the past, and have a lot of that stuff lying around unused too. I seem to get these enthusiasms for things, buy all the equipment (all the gear, no idea) then lose interest. Only trouble is I don't really have a house big enough to cope with doing that.

It's because I'm hopelessly spoilt and have no mental grit.

is nice to have a smattering of interests, nice for them to be transient too - maybe new ones will come soon?

here is pic of Charlotte's mum releasing doves at start of our race today (v emotional, member of my running club who died just 3 months ago only 17 after long struggle with anorexia and depression, we raced in her memory today)

I'm pretty sure I've got a depression coming and I'm feeling kind of resigned to it.

Xpost.

What a beautiful thing to do. That poor woman

And poor Charlotte too.

Looks like lots of people turned up to run in her memory.

hope you are not becoming depressed

might the pregabalin help? anxiety and depression seem to fuel one another sometimes, maybe addressing one could slow the progress of the other?

Maybe. I don't know. I don't think it's a mental illness thing so psychiatric drugs probably won't help. I'm just remembering who I really am and it's a bit shit.

over 400 of us, it was fantastic

but I did spend ten minutes before the start crying and the first half mile crying, have been horribly close to losing daughter #2 in the same way (she spent her 18th birthday in a coma) and find it unbearable to even imagine what might have been

you could try an A-Z of things that are great about you? see how far you get?

It's very close to the bone or the quick for you then I'm sorry about that. I grew up with a largely recovered but still a bit tendency-ish anorexia sufferer and it's just horrible for them.

Argh. No. If i have to sit and try and think of anything good about me when feeling low I usually go into a total tailspin about my inability to think of anything and end up loathing myself even more. I'll just try not to think about it all

yeah very close

in 3 weeks it's the anniversary of my cousin's death, pneumonia arising directly from her ED although I thought she was pretty much weight restored and doing well, is not clear how that happened but it happened

is like a family heirloom we keep passing round

The bastard thing is that even once doing better mentally and at target weight the physical damage lies there waiting. And the mental stuff sits there in the background a lot just waiting for a chance to jump back in.

seems to strike some of the nicest people too (not including my mother)

this is not great mood lifting stuff is it I'm going for a bit of a wander in the sunshine while there still is some, hope you find something nice to do x

Cheerio

Adequately walked and soused in gin. Now to get some sort of dinner started.