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

but seriously will not be able to eat Christmas Lunch with my fingers will I

although the matriarch did go off to a sort of Buddhist monastery for a while, something she had in common with #2 and ex-boyfriend of mad cancerous friend who ended up in the same one together (before #2 set fire to it accidentally) so she must have lived under those precepts of eating cake and curry out of same bowl at same time once a day?

am starting to feel insanely stressed about this

God forgot all about the carers assessment! Fuck knows what happened to that. I now have a care co-ordinator who is OK, but it just feels too little too late tbh. I think I will have to tell kids I have the flu or something and sit on the sofa all afternoon as well.

let me know how you get on with those mentally normal behaviours things. Things here are sooooooooooooooo not. Dd had friend round yesterday, "daddy, daddy show *** your scars" !!! (no she doesn't know how he really got them).

maybe your care coordinator can chase that up for you? whether anything ever comes of these things or not is another question isn't it

hope they let you get some rest, it all sounds so debilitating

Ah Mitchy, glad I'm not the only person who has to relearn cutlery sometimes. Phew.

does it just come naturally when it has to? it is the only thing I would really like to change, to be more Mentally Normal in these types of settings

will work up a great appetite first with our Christmas day ride then have devised a brilliant ruse by which I will leave my car 5ish miles away so can run there one day and back the next - might try the route tomorrow if there is time and my back survives running club tonight

otherwise am really looking forward to Christmas

Only if I can distract myself. Today was work lunch, cannot eat carvery with fingers. So I talked All The Time to everyone and it was fine. I can't do it at home really though but I can make myself remember how to do it properly when I have to.

I do a lot of copying other people too, so take what they do, eat the amount they do. I do that sort of meal so rarely I can manage it and know I won't become the size of a house but also look as Mentally Normal as possible by not eating crackers and yoghurt but a Proper Meal.

I can't wait for Christmas. Have the turkey ordered, planned the menu, bought all my presents. It's all coming together. All I have to focus on now is maintaining some sort of mental normality. I find big occasions tend to send me a bit mad.

I can't wait for Christmas either - I'm all done, just need to hope everything comes together. I find it hard because the clozapine tends to make me sleepy til 1 or 2.

Are you having guests for Christmas snowy?

I tried having guests for christmas but couldn't manage a whole one so went back to turkey.

I'm visiting family, several young nieces and nephews, it should be magical. Are you hosting, mental?

Lol Enpoid

I have my dad, sister, brother in law and three nieces. A full house.

I hope you have a lovely time

It will be chaos but I'm sure DP and I can tame a turkey between us!

Chaos is good!

those hosting, what do you like guests to bring? what would be a super thoughtful and nice offering that doesn't require much actual thought?

had lovely run with club and am feeling as Mentally Normal as it gets :) microwaved a packet of tomato-y spelt (even though ex-friend who is not very normal at all insisted that wheat caused her manic depression, that and marmite) which was tasty with 10g of powdery pecorino romano and hopefully will be carbed up as a result

I've asked my sister to bring a selection of decent cheeses and a bottle of port. My dad makes excellent Christmas puddings so he's bringing two of them. Any help mitchy?

Bloody arsing gp, went for my smear test and she's ringing my psychiatrist to grass me up because she's decided I'm hypomanic, just because ive dyed my hair bright blue, and I stayed up all night for three days to teach myself to knit, oh and I feel awesome and really fit like I could run a hundred miles.
The moment I'm not laid out depressed they decide I'm too happy.
What the fuck do they want from me?!

ahhh I could make the beetroot christmas pud (recipe in current edition of runner's world 'the xmas pud that makes you faster') if there is still time - but cheese must always definitely be welcome, some people are French, will get a fuckload of strange cheeses from one of those awful 'sensitively sourced' type delis Suffolk keeps spewing up

good thinking mp and a case of wine, surely that will suffice?

am not so worried about behaviours, have just remembered at the house in France how nobody minded the nudist dinner party, how nobody is exactly Mentally Normal anyway

anyway first time back in a saddle since last week most comfortable pony is the least well behaved so will start with him, good luck me, imagine the drama if I fell off on the road (last time I rode out on him I did in fact come off twice on the main road but was less hypochondriacal then than now)

how come everyone is so quiet?

cross posted spidey

knitting eh? am doing a giant global cringe at memory of rushing up to my WELL HOT psychiatrist to show him the knitted iPhone case I was so proud of - like a toddler coming out of nursery with a painting they did a home visit and I had cut everything into narrow strips (mainly carrier bags and old clothes) and knotted them together to knit with

careful of the knitting

that was the end of lamictal I think

are you on that? it excites the knitting receptors

I knit all the time. I have even taught myself to knit and mn at the same time.

I'm sitting in the food bank waiting for people to come and an get parcels. Sometimes it can be fun but I'm knackered so my enthusiasm for it is pretty low.

I did however manage a whole day yesterday of mentally normal behaviours which is a big step and Freud the psychiatrist on Friday will be pleased.

My GP did the exact same thing to me Spidey.

I was on lamictal when it was still on patent and humongously expensive. My main memory of it is that it was one of the worst-tasting things I've ever put in my mouth.

Don't remember much knitting though

I've decided I don't have and have never had a serious mental illness and anything that looks like a mental illness is almost entirely iatrogenic.

medal for caulkhead :)

we should be given medals for our achievements, or at least get a ranking certificate in the post like you do after a race sometimes saying 'well done, you were the 23rd most Mentally Normal person in your age category last week' for example

someone has started a blog about my friend's blog (not mad cancerous jewish one that have linked to on here before) and they are saying some really quite mad and horrible things I need to get out while it's sunny but people are fucking weird aren't they?

enpo - all these yucky drugs over the years damaging your neurons? someone was saying something very similar to me yesterday, it's an explanation with a lot of appeal