community-based psychiatric adventures of the mentally normal

[Mitchy1nge]

am not sure if mavis is still in this one

All this talk of running makes me think I should take it up but I live in a place with very few streetlights or footpaths. Is this couch to 5k thing any good?

Very tasteful Mp.

I'm going to my parents' over Christmas as usual so no tree. They usually have one though. With pasta creations from 25 years ago hung on it.

I am doing zombies run 5k.

are you meant to wash mud off? it just dries and falls off by itself?

Ooh I have fish fingers somewhere in the freezer, I'm sure of it.

It seems to be smeared on pretty hard.

Are you too classy for tinsel Mental?

Far too classy for tinsel

Has anyone seen the imitation game? I was planning on seeing it at the cinema before its run ends

Not me, I live miles and miles from a cinema, sorry.

Looks like yesterday was the last day No bigscreen Cumberbatch for me

What is the Benedict Cumberbatch thing? I know I'm a big old lezzer but I just don't see the attraction.

Probably at least partly the voice. That's the main reason I'd still do Patrick Stewart.

Er, cheekbones?

The voice I do get.

Could not pick Benedict cumberbatch out of a line up but thanks to a thread on MN I do hear his name in my head to the tune of 'another one bites the dust' every time I see it

have heroically eaten the chips and fish fingers, the bridge is v exciting now, as a little side offering to the bigger story the nanny blatantly has munchausen's syndrome by proxy or whatever its new name is

I love factitious disorders, and conversion disorders (maybe I have the former?) and somatising and malingering. Friend has a patient with factitious schizophrenia. How can you confront someone about that? Or would you just dole out the drugs and pretend not to know?

Hang on, you can have a mental illness the main synptom of which is pretending to have a different mental illness?

I can understand maybe playing up symptoms of anxiety to get benzos.

there isn't exactly a massive body of knowledge on the subject but yeah

would have to be quite fucked up, it's sad isn't it, but fascinating

How would you know if you were making it up, though? I only ever realise in hindsight that my episodes weren't just me being my usual self cause it all feels like my choices at the time and if anyone accused me of choosing to do the nutso shit, I'd probably agree with them. But then I don't usually experience psychosis so I guess that's different.

I mean, sure, I guess you would know for a fact you were making it up if you said "I hear voices" when you don't, but mood stuff is a little bit more subjective and weird.

I'm liking Alan Rickman's voice at the moment

An excellent choice

if it's just for particular drugs it must be malingering - but if it's about, I dunno, validation? then it's factitious I guess

is a shame I'm dementing prematurely and have forgotten so much stuff but maybe I will enjoy finding out about them again

if I was a horse with colic I'd find my gut noises reassuring

Strange type of validation to want. And a strange type of drugs to want, too. But then who said mental illness made any sense?

Ah who gives a toss. Beginning to not believe in the validity or predictive value of any psychiatric categorisation, especially given the high levels of supposed comorbidity. Which is more likely, that diagnostic categories are invalid or that everyone I meet with mental health problems has multiple specific mental illnesses? I think what you were saying before is right.

I am Enpoid, and I am Not Otherwise Specified.