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Full Mental Normality

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:16

Kubricking it.

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 27/01/2015 15:03

Have you spoken to your (insert appropriate mh professional)?

CaulkheadUpNorth · 27/01/2015 15:04

I'm quite young and free, and still signed off, so if it would help to meet someone for a shoulder or coffee or anything then let me know. I've done it for another mnetter and someone did it for me, so it's a genuine offer.

SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 15:23

(((( tooth ))))

I feel like smashing my head against the wall Sad

toothpasteinthetree · 27/01/2015 15:26

Thanks Caulk. Thanks.

At the moment I don't have any (insert appropriate mh professional) as really, even after all these 20+ years in the system, I've never managed to find or access anything or anyone within either the NHS systems which sustainably works or helps. I do have access to workplace counselling, but it's six-session-max set-up, and I don't know whether it's be better than nothing or not.

toothpasteinthetree · 27/01/2015 15:27

snowy sending love. Why??

SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 15:30

Just intrusive thoughts.

toothpasteinthetree · 27/01/2015 15:32

I get those too.

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Enpoid · 27/01/2015 15:43

Hi everyone - sorry to hear people are struggling.

Flowers toothpaste and Snowy

Would it help to come round mine and join me in hacking all the render and pebbledash off my bathroom extension? It's very therapeutic (have been doing a lt of it today) and you can choose from either a big metal mallet +chisel thing or the giant drill with a stabby thing on the end of it.

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SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 15:45

That does sound therapeutic!

CaulkheadUpNorth · 27/01/2015 15:57

Also therapeutic is wandering round tha biggest garden centre ever known to me man and getting lots of cheap stuff to grow vegetables.

SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 16:09

I'm watching alan davies (recorded from dave).

CaulkheadUpNorth · 27/01/2015 16:48

I've just received a care plan! How exciting.

It's totally dull though, just says medication and to speak to cmht, gp or samaritians.

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Enpoid · 27/01/2015 16:58

Thrilling Grin Mine is similarly unenlightening.

I've just received a letter saying I've been referred to psychological services and that there's a couple of months' waiting list to get through.

Which I'd now be at the top of if I had been referred a couple of months ago when I was told I would be.

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SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 16:59

I haven't seen a care plan for years, but mine was similarly uninspiring.

I hope the time goes quickly, enpo

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Enpoid · 27/01/2015 17:02

Thanks Snowy Smile

This reminds me, I'm supposed to go through my care plan and modify it if I want.

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 27/01/2015 17:10

Can WE modify it for you?

When enpo is in crisis it is very important that she eats Nutella, which is prescribed, and can have two jars per day.

It is important that a car is provided for her, and she is allowed to travel at a speed chosen for her.

Do not allow enpo to fly, please check her wings are clipped.

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Enpoid · 27/01/2015 17:24

Grin Sounds like a good plan.

Can I swap almond butter for Nutella?

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SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 17:28

Sounds good Grin

SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 17:29

I've just had mixed veg and yoghurt (separately)

Millie2013 · 27/01/2015 17:46

Webbs, Caulk? I went there (forget when) recently
I've got a poorly DD, who managed to decorate me, herself and half the room in vomit :(

CaulkheadUpNorth · 27/01/2015 17:59

Yep. I love webbs. They have really cheap growing veg kits currently.

Oh no to dd and poor you.

SnowyMouse · 27/01/2015 18:03

Sad I hope DD feels better soon.

Mentalpsychiatrist · 27/01/2015 18:15

Sorry to hear about DD Millie, sounds grim.

toothpasteinthetree · 27/01/2015 18:34

All this discussion of care plans makes me feel very old. I remember the first time I had a care plan. It was back in '99 and I absolutely horrified my psych and CPN by so innocently making the utterly shockingly audacious request to "see my own care plan". I mean, a patient seeing her own care plan? Whatever next?? How thoroughly inappropriate!!!

As with all things, though, I'm not sure that I believe that all that much has changed. Being "invited" to have "involvement" to one's own care plan and getting a copy in the post doesn't, I'm aware, guarantee any better level of autonomy, choice or support. There's never going to be a substitute for good people.

toothpasteinthetree · 27/01/2015 18:51

Could I ask for some advice from you all? Or rather - could you tell me on a scale from 1-10 how awful what I've done might be?

A colleague just texted me with a brief work-related query and a request for me to give her a quick hand with something in the office. Her text ended with "and how ru? xx"

I replied to the text by giving answering her questions and agreeing to her request - but then, by telling her exactly her depressed I am, how bad the voices are and how I very much hope that I won't do anything odd when we meet.

Arrrrrrrrrrgh. Questions of stigma and disclosure aside - was I very inappropriate?

Surely - her "how ru? xx" was a social pleasantry to accompany a polite request: surely wasn't actually asking me or expecting me to tell her?

And surely - isn't that level of TMI the sort of texting one does with friends, not colleagues?

I don't have a clue about life, or people, or anything.