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

[Mitchy1nge]

and die of being cold

That is busy!

I've got

Monday: Depression support group
Bloke coming to measure my windows (remember to hide vibrator)
Gym (mixed day)
Tuesday: Wait in for parcel
5k training
Wednesday: Meditation
Gym (cardio day)
Thursday: Singing group
Tai Chi
5k training
Friday: Care coordinator
Gym (mixed day)

and a list of jobs a mile long written in drywipe pen on the side of the fridge, many of which will not get done. All pretty tedious, and not a doctor in sight, luckily

Two psychs in one week is

Why does MN ignore spaces? That's impossible to read

Has everyone gone to bed?

I nearly forgot, I was going to chip the render off my bathroom extension too.

I'm in bed but not asleep.

You are feeeeling sleeeepy...

Well yes. I am. But I have half a cup of green tea left.

I'm sure what you meant to say was 2 psychs in a week is completely mentally normal

In bed and soon to be asleep...

Sleepy vibes

Complete and utter mental normality, two shrinks in a week. I highly recommend it.

What kind of green tea Caulk? I've just had a bottle of Coke Zero and am considering putting on another pot of that nice Java Sumatra. I would have a hot chocolate but only have skimmed milk DP has a terrible müsli habit.

Green tea with orange.

I love Java sumarta. Much better than hot chocolate.

It is very nice hot chocolate though - its that Bonnat stuff I mentioned a while back; the tub smells like the platonic ideal of a chocolate flake.

Decided on Tesco fake Gold Blend. instant coffee is incredibly pricey and DP doesn't drink it.

Thread's nearly full

Blimey, Enpo, I am MASSIVELY impressed by all the self-care in your week!

I'm not asleep because my head's all fucked up mentally normal atm. I need 12 (yes, 12!!!) hours a day minimum, but don't actually feel sleepy until about 4am. This leads to potentially missing all the daylight in winter. I lurved my Zolpidem, but they took me off it. I should try asking again, perhaps pointing out that my only current resort is vodka.

Am I talking to myself here now?

Hi. Another insomniacs...

Hello! We'll have this thread finished by bedtime ...

Massive amounts of self-care… I think that's a good thing?

I don't work and am attempting to become Mentally Normal so it's all in aid of that, really.

I usually have an extremely delayed sleep phase too - without a fuck of a lot of constant work and sleep hygiene and a following wind, my sleep pattern reverts to 4am-midday at the slightest possible opportunity - when I'm low, it often drifts to 6am-6pm or then pushes into a constantly-pushing-back cycle of 26 hour days - or wake periods get skipped and I sleep for 36 hours, or sleep periods get skipped entirely. But mostly my normal euthymic stable sleep pattern would be 4am to midday. I can force it back to midnight to 8am but it takes CONSTANT VIGILANCE. And then sometimes like at the moment sleep seems to not happen so much. Occasionally with depression I get early morning waking, but usually it's the sleeping 10-12 hours business

Vodka might not be the best idea.

It's the insomniac 3am meet up

Hope not because I need sleep. Trying to read in quiet room but cannot concentrate. Just hate not sleeping. Have a cough and restless legs also trying to distract from intrusive thoughts

Delayed sleep phase is a cunt - my dad recently retired after several decades of work which he somehow managed despite having the same basic cycle as me - which for your average working day in practice means either CONSTANT VIGILANCE and effort and sleep hygoene and various techniues to attempt to entrain sleep patterns to the societal norm, or sleeping 4am-7am most nights and just being knackered all the time

How come most people in this thread get prescribed zolpidem and I always get zopiclone although I refuse to take it as I don't fancy dying?

That all sounds bloody miserable for you bright. I hope you drift off to sleep soon.

Yep, my old shrink suggested giving in to it and working at night! I was self-employed before grinding to a complete halt, and that kind of worked actually.

Of course a week full of scheduled self-care is a good thing. Have a for your efforts.

I think I'll put some bread on. If I set it to be done for 10am, the nice smell might wake me up. Might ...

I thought zopiclone & zolpidem were very similar?

I didn't know there was a crown

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Giving in to it might be better long term but I want to go back to school

Oh, bread. How I miss thee… what kind of bread do you make?

And who should start the new thread? Mitchy normally does it but she's probably snoozing.

Is self-employnent harder to keep going, do you think, with depression?