Being Mentally Normal: The Theory and The Actuality

[Mitchy1nge]

we must be on part 11 or something by now?

That's the sort of time when the walk in centre is your friend. They will prescribe you anything except addictive things.

Wednesday is fucking AGES though do you want some tramadol? Was just finding out about bute in humans, is actually used in the uk (ankylosing spondylitis) but not often I would think. I don't fancy the liver degradation.

Today's q is a sexual maturation across the life span one

A 4 yr old child (with 46 xy carriers) who has met all developmental milestones correctly identifies others as boys or girls but insists they are a girl. What should the psychiatrist say to the concerned parents:

1. That's perfectly normal
2. Gender identity is fluid until puberty
3. Your child will be a homosexual
4. Your child might have a gender dysphoria
5. Your child might have androgen insensitivity syndrome

A.

I feel a bit daunted by Sunday even though someone else is doing my horses this morning (am a bit spaced out and nauseous thanks tramadol) the plan is: run with friend and measure the route for her (magical Garmin watch), ride before or after that if back is up to it, PT at 2 (an hour plus an hour round trip), get to the flat of the man in my life and use all his hot water and leave a trail of wet towels and mud splattered Lycra everywhere

I think it should be the first one, but it's not

I'll go with A as well.

I'm debating the walk-in centre. Fearing a telling-off by staff though, for messing up on the prescription.

It's not A.

What's all the pain about tooth? How badly could they tell you off anyway?

If have hoped it was A too.
B?
Bute is quite nasty stuff for humans (can't say much more, as it might hint at my career and out me- not that I mind you lot knowing about me, I just don't want any RL peeps knowing about my ishoos!)

nah it's D or 4, gender dysphoria, but I don't remember the reasoning and the finished question will be much better formed than that

but by age of 3 most children will normally know whether they are a boy or a girl in a conforming to gender type way, in fact even earlier

which doesn't bode well for my grandson

Apart from her dad my god daughter didn't meet a boy until she was 4. Everyone was a sister to her!

Just realised I read the question wrong and thought they were identifying others wrong

I didn't phrase it very well at all, the effort of trying to remember stuff

feel sort of awake finally, after two things of stovetop espresso, might actually push on with The Day

Have just woken up.

Am powering through work despite the current sadness and rewarding myself on how I managed to get through all of yesterday and therefore have to get through all of today.

I'm just surprised they diagnose so early
I'm currently entertaining DD(who is actually playing quietly) and trying to stop myself from self sabotaging. Self sabotaging in this case would involve picking an argument with OH over something he said 6.5 years ago. Probably
How do you keep yourself from unhelpful behaviour such as this? I realise i do it, but can't stop myself :/

Depends on what it is. Sometimes I set timers and can do whatever when the timer goes off. Sometimes I just tell myself that it's not worth it in the long run/I know what happens/someone else wouldn't do it, that sort of thing.

The timer might work.
I'm currently sorting my craft stuff and wishing I hadn't started :/

The timer can help as you can keep resetting it. I use half and hour or ten minutes but it's usually for Mentally Abnormal Behaviours.

I'm watching a programme about Russians in London. I don't think it's a parody but it might be!
Time for soup and yoghurt probably too, am trying to have each meal before the app tells me to.

Pain is as-yet-undiagnosed, which is also why I'm uncertain of my ability to persuade the walk-in into an earlier prescription. Or rather, it's factitious, which is what the medics call all of my medical issues until they actually show up on test results. My theory about the pain is that it's some form of adverse anaesthetic reaction, simply because it began very suddenly after I came round from a general anaesthetic about three years ago. But in any case, the only things which help are either shed-loads of coedine or a moderate whack of fluoxetine. I go back and forth over which is the lesser evil, but have concluded that the long-terms risks of coedine dependence are probably greater than the chances of any as-yet-undiscovered life-threatening side-effects of fluoxetine. But because the textbooks say that fluoxetine doesn't relieve pain and doesn't work immediately (both of which for me are untrue), I find discussing the whole thing with medics quite stressful.

In any case, though, I've been up for a while, eaten and have had two lovely hot baths. That always helps a bit, as does the caffeine.

Millie I do the self-sabotaging picking-of-arguments too. I agree with you that distraction is usually the best solution. But would it help you to tell us what he did 6.5 years ago?

Haha, that was just an example of what I do, there was no specific thing, I just ruminate on things and drag them up again and it's not helpful :/

Why do they call it gender "dysphoria" anyway? From what I understand, it's not so much being unhappy about your assigned gender as feeling that you are the other gender.

Hello all. In the car on the way back from the airport. Had a lovely week but not sleeping at all, worryingly. Will medicate with zolpidem tonight as back to work tomorrow.

Hello.

Must resist the urge to sabotage things when they are going ok. Repeat x 100
It's so maddening!!!
Contemplating texting therapist, torn as I think Sunday is her only day off. I could email her, but I'm not sure about that either :/ I don't contact her between sessions that often and she encourages it, but I still feel guilty
And breeeeeaaattthhheee