community-based psychiatric adventures of the mentally normal

[Mitchy1nge]

am not sure if mavis is still in this one

Ah thank you enpoid, I like your way of thinking

managed to read 'holy sheaths' for 'holly wreaths' on a badly hand painted sign earlier and it took me ages to question what I'd seen

I almost want a cold so I can have a hot toddy with old school Beecham powders, single malt, honey, lemon juice and hot water (or even hot milk which I used to love but now it strikes me that I'd prefer a mug of rancid phlegm)

I don't know if I've ever had plain hot milk.

but a hot milky drink is known to be effective against all mental health crises

Oh FFS she's eating just the PB innards out of an enormous bag of mini Reese's peanut butter cups and depositing her unwanted chocolate stuff on the coffee table

MilkY. Not milk. Maybe this is where you're going wrong. If youd only had Horlicks.

Am about to eat dangerously fish-sauce-laced tom yum soup. Managed to stop DP before the soy sauce went in but if I die of hypertensive crisis I'll be sure to let you all know.

Oh god Mavis just nearly chucked hers all over the sofa while insisting that I stop faffing and if I just let her concentrate she won't drop it.

I've drunk the ginger tea and am now in bed with a hot whiskey and a lot of tissues. I expect to make it through the night.......

Hooray, early night sounds like the perfect remedy. Hope you sleep well.

Mavis invited us round to watch Devil's Advocate, after I super special promised not to use the apparent suicide.method contained therein as inspiration. She started the film while I was in the loo, wouldn't turn the volume up for the first scene as we "didn't need to see that bit", and that only she would like that bit, not other people, then explained it could've triggered a problematic conversation Then she fastforwarded through a church scene and I now have no idea what is going on.

This is in addition to the ginger beer palaver.

This is going to be a long night.

was it the pukka 3 ginger tea? yum, addicted to that, hope it helps

am impressed that I've not only managed to stay alive all day (and not succumb to complications arising from my factitious obesity) but I only slightly wish I could be bludgeoned to death and then dissolved in acid and poured down the drain, mostly I am resigned to it all

nights are long aren't they

am going to sleep as much of it as possible, hope you enjoy the film enpo - heard of it but never seen

Sleep well Mitch and your gorily imaginative brain.

We just skipped another scene

A cat is staring at me.

I had lovely dreams about horses, Brown Horse specifically and mad cancerous friend who wasn't cancerous in my dream :)

That's nice

I'm home from work and in bed having snotted over five patients this morning. I've been to the chemist though so I'm well stocked up. Such a shame night nurse and lithium are contraindicated.

Night nurse is evil stuff. I have inherited some kind of predisposition to staying up all night vibrating if I touch the stuff

My mum once took sudafed and didn't sleep for two days

At least psychiatrists don't have to touch people.

is it? why? wee related or too sedating or what?

but anyway poor you, hope it's over soon

talking of things that are supposedly not great friends with lithium am doing a bit of naproxen for backache, riding related I think, had nice time with personal trainer though doing stretching and Walking Like A Normal Person

I think I met one of those once.

I could be the most mentally normal person in the world for all anyone knows

PT did a mind-blowing thing of getting me to lie down on a foamy thing while she stretched me and when I got up she pointed to the imprint of a teeny little skeleton from skull to pelvis and said 'see? that is how tiny you actually are'

God no, no touching people in psychiatry for which I am profoundly grateful. My sister is a cardiologist and has to touch people all day. I don't know how she does it. I'd have every last little bit of skin scrubbed off my hands from over washing.

I do feel a bit better today but that could just be because I'm in bed with a furry hot water bottle at my feet. I will be at the Christmas party tomorrow no matter what.

I hope you continue to feel better, mental Enjoy the Christmas party.

Voices are getting on my nerves, I went into town but forgot to go to the Christmas market...

Sounds distracting Snowy. Shame about the Christmas market - could you go again some time?

Yes, I can go next week