thread on which to be factitiously Mentally Normal (NOS)

[Mitchy1nge]

nobody was wondering but not only am I still alive, the horribleness of my back pain has completely stopped is all a bit tender and traumatised but hooray for me

and partial hooray for the weirdness that is tramadol I suppose

Hello to the mentally normal. Day from hell here with patients all day and no break. Am making up for it with a large gin and tonic.

Sorry your day was hellish, mental I hope the g+t helps!

Wouldnt it be easier to put out a big bowl of lorazepam with a "help yourself" sign and then kick back and relax?

god I could happily eat a large fruit bowl of lorazepam

Am currently very mentally abnormal as sitting in a and e having attached my limbs with a sharp item.

Could you tell me your best a and e stories please and thank you. Or other stories to pass the time. It's the biggest hospital in the world or something and so everyone comes here from the whole of the midlands and therefore is Very Busy.

Sorry to hear that Caulk Well done for getting yourself to A&E to be looked after.

I once took all my clothes off in A&E, wandered through the waiting area, and had to be rugby-tackled and carried back to cubicle by my dad (I was sixteen, drunk, full of diazepam, and overheating, goddammit!)

Brilliant story. Just what I wanted/needed. Thanks

I have a thread in the other place, and they reminded me how actually getting them dressed is important. Also have psychiatrist and therapist tomorrow who will make me come here.

A&E's not much fun especially at this time of day but I'm glad you're in the right place

Am battling between knowing this is the right thing to be doing and the overwhelming feelings of just being an IDIOT.

You're NOT an idiot.

At one particular point in time, the situation/feelings you had to cope with exceeded the amount you were able to cope with using non-SI strategies. It's nothing to do with being an idiot or not. You are being incredibly fucking brave and responsible by being kind to yourself and getting the right treatment for your injuries.

caulkhead and cuddle

my weirdest A&E story, although this is pre-A&E really was when child #1 had a car accident which involved leaving the country road and landing the car nose first in a farmer's field - all the glass shattered on impact, the dog disappeared (for days )

she wasn't wearing a seatbelt and somehow hit head in such a way that caused a long and very deep cut along her hairline, her skin, muscle/soft tissue whatever just flapped down and you could see her skull and obviously there was lots of blood and she was hysterical and I (am SO squeamish) being all 'no darling it is nothing, but you will need a few stitches' and then spewing everywhere, got her to sit in the land rover and wait for the ambulance - when they arrived they were accompanied by a national geographic film crew, everyone wanted to cut the roof off the land rover they made me kneel in the back supporting her head from a v awkward angle while they filmed me from behind (I had just been rolled on by a really fat little pony a little earlier, and a dog had eaten someone's chesterfield, it was a really bad day actually)

so if you ever saw a national geographic programme about rural ambulance services that involved a very muddy bottom that was it

they filmed the whole joy of A&E and stitching and so on but were obviously gutted that no serious spinal injury had occurred

Oh my days that is horrific. Or at least it sounds that way.

Have just spent ten minutes reassured doctor I am Mentally Normal and do not need to speak to psych team. Thankfully they seemed to think I spoke sense and now waiting for what I hope is steri strips but fear might be gluing or stitching.

it felt a bit unreal when the film crew showed up, all 'what the fuck?'

hope you are more comfortable now, well done for going

have you had a particularly bad day prior to this?

Can people request they don't want the film crews to film them? Emergency biker paramedics thing is filmed here. I fainted in the shopping centre about a week ago and when someone said they had called 999 was terrified the TV people would turn up too.

Have been treated and released back into the world. Today was ok, just triggered by stupid conversations with stupid housemate which I can usually rise above but just couldn't. Oh well.

they can pixelate your face or whatever if you happen to be in the shot and don't want to be?

but I guess in any public place there is no expectation of privacy so no reason why you can't be photographed or filmed?

Oh yes, forgot the pixelated face thing. My brother used to believe that was what some peoples faces were like

heh! I hope he was about 3 when he thought that

are you ok? do you see psych and therapist at same time tomorrow?

Nope, about 10.

I see the psych at the cmht place at 2, and then the therapist in the evening. She is private and I see her twice a week. I'm ok, just sore now and pissed off at myself but that'll pass. I have to go and get dressing changed on Monday. Thrilling.

be nice to yourself

apart from the excitements you list anything else to look forward to?

if there is any justice in this world I will have some kind of run with a friend tomorrow morning, 6 miles would be nice as have an arbitrary minimum of 15 a week below which I will DIE and think am at about 9.5 at the moment

then everyone will go to Olympia without me, I'm house-sitting and might invite the man-in-my-life to come and help. seems ages since I had a snog.

Oh fuck I forgot to go for a run today.

I thought I had a hair cut booked, but they haven't text me so I must have got it wrong. Somewhere it's written down...
Tomorrow is PayDay so I am signing a contract for a new houseshare, as this one has spiralled into pretty disastrous!

Run sounds good, although snogs always better.

I hate being out of my running routine, it makes me feel Mentally Disordered. The perfect mood stabilising amount is 25 miles a week. Nobody was wondering about that but there it is :)

On second thoughts, runs often better than snogs.

I have a haircut booked tomorrow and should really go to bed - thanks for the reminder

god I hope I never have to choose between runs and snogs, but if it would have to be running as am pretty skilled at masturbating