community-based psychiatric adventures of the mentally normal

[Mitchy1nge]

am not sure if mavis is still in this one

I have a haircut booked for this Friday - anyone want to help me choose what to do with it? It needs to be short but not too butch.

Relevant information: if my hair is too short it goes curly and I look like a fatchested adolescent boy.

some drugs have great street value don't they, like quetiapine, or whatever the prison equivalent of street value is

I'd love to be something NOS!

factitious disorders where the pretend illness is a mental rather than physical one are either quite rare or psychiatrists aren't very good at spotting the deception

that's why I was excited to hear about one although am sure it will be a disturbing story if am ever allowed to hear about it

I can't even imagine why someone would want to take quetiapine. It's just horrible But yeah I seem to remember reading it has a street value.

Bet Depakote doesn't, though.

Phenelzine should have some value but only in that it's probably useful if you take DMT.

quetiapine has its uses! I almost took some last night in hopes of sleeping through back pain but was scared I might aspirate on my vomit in my sleep - too old for such a rock and roll death

(plus was in my daughter's bed taking advantage of her absence)

Good point, it probably is good for sleep - but wouldn't someone who was having trouble sleeping just go to the doctor and ask for something rather than taking some random street drug?

Though I suppose that's easier said than done for some people - if you get all your medical care through A & E or something.

I don't know either, can see why it would be popular in a prison environment where access to other stuff might be trickier. Or for when coming down off something else, to sleep it off or to at least not pace quite so frantically?

Good point.

I used it to cut my threads down - on antipsychotics I only think one thread at a time which makes me stupid but is easy to cope with. But I've realised that medicating that is a really bad idea and although it seems easier to drug it away when it happens I just need to learn to take advantage of it. It was quite effective at that but did strange things to my blood sugar. Apparently. Not that I was told that that was why I was taken off it. But yes I can see it being used for comedown. People talk about using SSRIs for ecstasy comedown but I can't see how that could possibly work.

I do love my new TV.

I was advised to take an SSRI after MDMA - can usually find citalopram or fluoxetine in anyone's house

can't tell if it's ever helped or not

feel a bit queasy thinking about drugs but have just chanced a tramadol - glad not to be feeling sick but my back pain is horrible and relentless :(

Can't believe that doctor didn't do ANYTHING for your back.

well she advised me to take paracetamol but that was after I'd explained that naproxen and tramadol had bought little relief - it is bad isn't it, I might complain. I probably won't.

am convinced that if I was an exam question I would have an aortic abdominal aneurysm or pancreatitis or maybe kidney stones but something she should have asked questions about before fobbing me off

or my prostate cancer would have metastasised to my hips or something

but this being Real Life am as usual making a fuss about 1. nothing or 2. something self inflicted anyway probably

I grew up in a household where I was always "reassured" about any painful but probably harmless problem with the phrase "it's only pain". Thanks Dad.

Bloody doctors.

There's no reason not to get a second opinion of you think it would help.

yeah but it will have to wait until Monday won't it, am probably with your household a bit on the 'it's just pain' front although not the most stoical here and it's a long time to be so uncomfortable and tired and a bit worried

Poor Mitch

I've been invited to go and look at Mavis's Christmas tree.

careful, too much sympathy and attention might make my factitious symptoms even worse

enjoy the tree and having a social life etc

:( will be left to go through it alone (with maybe one or two episodes of The Bridge left)

Social life? Me?

it sounds more sociable than chain-watching The Bridge from under a furry zebra throw with a heat pad and a couple of cats

family are coming soon with groceries for tomorrow, I asked for some bottled water and ex-mr mitchy said 'can't you get some from the tap?' my tap water doesn't come out frizzante you fool

is final episode, something awful is going to happen but am excited about seeing Real People soon!