thread in which the Mentally Normal sustain a stream of fascinating chat

[Mitchy1nge]

and die of being cold

Is that the morrisons opposite the cmht building though?

Yes!

That's probably where the unusal man came from! It's where I go so I can say that. Look out for Freud!

Is there an inpatient unit near here too? Or is it just a secure unit?

Yes, it's by the Hollywood bowl, it's the forensic psychiatrist inpatient place. I think my brother is in there, but I'm not sure. not a close family
I think it's pretty secure.

My therapist used to work at the old hospital there, it closed years ago. I just walked past the burial site and it made me feel quite sad
Sorry to hear about your brother

The big old hospital (holly moor?) or is there another one one the site near the cinema?

I'm not close to the brother, he is from my stepdads first marriage. I only know because there were issues with temporary care of his children a whole ago.

I think the big old one (former asylum)

With the tower? Up the road a bit from there? I went to an open day there a while ago, and there were old records of women who had been there. It's so interesting.

Yes, that might be it, some of the stores are so sad, the things they were detained for

Oh. My. Days. I am SO fat right now.
That's it.

No snow here either. I'm feeling more awake/better since I had a nap from 8 til 12:30.

I've had porridge for breakfast, and a snack of garlic prawns.

I'm very fat too caulk probably around 14 stone.

The only snow here is on my driveway, which is v. annoying. It's a court so is lots of people's driveways but still.

I think I have reached a new high of 456700000 stone. Possibly the biggest anyone has ever been ever.

I might get up from my lovely seat by the radiator and do some tidying. Or make some tea.

I'm on day 1 of my weight loss plan. Currently eating nice carb-free soup for lunch. More importantly I'm having an actual lunch break

Hooray for lunchbreaks, well done. I am on a permanent lunch break today
What's in the soup?

caulk you are NOT FAT

sorry to be invalidating and all that but you're just not!

apparently we must work on radical acceptance:

I feel fat, I hate it
I can't change it, losing weight only makes it worse (does not make sense but the brain narrows its focus even more on body size and shape when starving)
I just have to Tolerate It

I'm quite huge right now too, entirely my own fault, too much crap food and wine

I say this but skipped breakfast, had morning snack (banana) and two tablespoons of sugar for lunch

I'm glad you've got a lunch break mental, that is unusual

I'm on day 12 , and only had one day when I went over1200 by 200 (dreaded pizza).

I've thought about low carb, but the only way I could do it would be going on something like the cambridge diet and I'm not sure my GP would agree.

I will tolerate it, but will still have a strop and sulk about it because NO CLOTHES fit me now, am in scary new bracket on bmi chart and generally just the size of a small building.

Are new clothes possible, caulk? Chuck away all those that don't fit?

Yes, but i am hoping this fatness is temporary and so I don't want to buy more, if that makes sense.

another cuddle for the misery and distress of it all

stopping the behaviours is prob the only long term way out, think it helps me a bit that I am just too fucking old for it! Had this as a teen, then mid twenties, then the years of manic depressive insanity and now this again. Worse, almost lost #2 to it and her bmi wasn't even that low but she had the purging type and was hypokalemic and was officially at death's door.

I don't want to live like it! Is so frustrating not to be able to Just Stop It.

Knowing that you want to stop though is a good step forward, one day at a time etc. Or one hour and then the next. If you want to go to my appt tomorrow instead of me (any of you) it's at 11. Thanks.

Is this the assessment?