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

It's years since I've seen it, but anything like that annoys me.

Still very awake despite the double dose of quetiapine. Where is the fairness in the world?

Spent what felt like an hour trying to land a light aircraft in GTA only to discover I was using entirely the wrong button to put the landing gear down and had been trying to land without it

It's the beginning of the end. I'm getting too old for video games. Before long I'll be walking into walls and randomly crouching in the middle of firefights while yelling, "Which button is it to shoot? There's too many buttons! You whippersnappers - in my day, you had A, B, and the D-pad, and were thankful for it!"

I can beat that enpoid - I can't get past the first level of super mario galaxy 2 I may have to resort to online guides!

Mario is actually properly hard. I don't have the coordination for it.

Nor me. I've got zelda: twilight princess, I wonder if that's any easier.

Mitchy no, you don't look fat, you don't. I specialise in deleting calories from every recipe I attempt - which is perhaps why I cannot bake.

Enpo Thanks for the Mavis intro. I have a Mavis in my life, too - or rather, a couple of them. I'm not sure if it's that I have some form of radar for attracting only those as factitiously mentally normal as myself, or simply that I find the more genuinely mentally normal people out there impossible to fathom, let alone to relate to.

And having read the threads more carefully, I do suspect that I was at the same school as several of you.

Secondary school? Or school of life?

I've been sorting out new carpets for the house, which is less thrilling than it sounds. Now trying to decide what I want to do with the rest of the day. Possibly ikea...

I skimmed back through that thread too Tooth and cringed so much - at one point I claimed to be extremely intelligent and able to conceptualise things other people couldn't understand, or some such utter bollocks What a dick!

Maybe we all know a Mavis.

Caulk, I went to an academically-focussed girls' school that in hindsight seemed to have been specifically designed to elicit mental illness in anyone with latent tendencies and many of my old school-friends suffer or have suffered with depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and self-harm. When I mentioned it, several other posters said they'd also been to the same sort of school.

Ah! I see.

I went to a dull boring comp, despite passing enterance and getting scholarship to the Posh School but my parents couldn't afford uniform.

I didn't really go to school because I was raised by wolves, except when I and did it wasn't single sex but it was fee paying and academic.

Am frozen all the way through. Just about got over my sulk from yesterday (how dare they? cancelling my appointment and just leaving me to DIE etc) and stuffed self full of carbs last night and this morning (35g of porridge!) for an 8-10 miler with a new friend and they cancelled, and the farrier took about five years to do my horses (partly because they kept escaping) and then #3 was out for too long on her pony and she'd come off and all the time it was RAINING and windy. GRUMPY.

I went to a dull boring comp too, after I crashed and burned out of the neurosis hothouse

about you missing out because of bloody uniform Caulk.

Poor cold Mitchy. How about a nice warming Omelette?

on plus side:

#3 was wearing her gopro so can chortle with glee at footage of her unplanned dismount (if am allowed to see) and she is unharmed etc

had interesting chat with a dietician (I run past her house, she has noted my 2 hour runs) so she can be my own privately financed special dietician, she was surprisingly easy to talk to about Stuff, I guess because it was unplanned and unexpected and sort of came about naturally

Mitchy, I've got horses, well technically a horse right now, as I lost my childhood pony last year.
I feel bad as I don't have the time/motivation to do much with her at the moment, so my mum has her as a big pampered pet.

Speaking of whom, I promised I'd go and visit her today, so I'll go and drag her in/give her some scritches. Right now.

I went to a dull and boring state grammar school until I got asked to leave

I don't know about The Omelette haven't been for run, haven't ridden

have mucked out two stables and walked a couple of miles but not v energetically, mainly stood around crying about the cold/flirting with farrier/ coming to arrangement with dietician

am going to assemble own private team of non-nhs help

It's important to eat well on rest days, though, right?

ahhhh tell us about your horse millie!

Have The Omlette, think of it as fuel for tomorrow and like a magical medicine. Or whatever.

my mum has her as a big pampered pet.

Speaking of whom, I promised I'd go and visit her today, so I'll go and drag her in/give her some scritches

Aw, my mum likes scritches too

yeah there is a run tomorrow, and riding and then PT (but that is not the gruelling workout one might hope, is more like physio) and then MAN (hopefully at least some snogs, last time I was there I fell asleep and woke up horribly late the next morning)

I could go for some of my homemade 20 cal hot chocolate substitute which is just a sort of brown watery drink

Mucking out is quite strenuous I think - time for the Omelette?

by the way, tooth seems nice doesn't she?

I would do the omelette. Don't forget my academic friend and aiming to be slightly nearer to that and more omelettes means being warmer.

Oh wise ones- am currently Probably Not Very Safe and I don't know whether to ring the useless crisis team or see duty psych at a&e or just keep telling myself it will pass and that I should just sleep more and think less. What do we think?

Yes, tooth is One Of Us now...