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Full Mental Normality

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Enpoid · 26/01/2015 03:16

Kubricking it.

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Mentalpsychiatrist · 31/01/2015 21:56

I loved a Orange is the New Black, so funny. I've yet to find something as good on Netflix.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 31/01/2015 21:57

I finished the last episode this morning. There is a void in my life. I'm considering just watching them all over again. I did a thread on the tv board to see what others recommends, and lots of people said weeds but that isn't on Netflix.

Mentalpsychiatrist · 31/01/2015 22:00

Have you seen Homeland? If not it's well worth watching.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 31/01/2015 22:02

No. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person in the western world who hasn't though. I've still got 12 days left on the sick note so that's a lot of time to watch telly.

Mentalpsychiatrist · 31/01/2015 22:06

Then watch It. It will suck you in. I watched it when I was home recovering from a hospital stay last year.

Mitchy1nge · 31/01/2015 23:41

homeland grew on me although am pretty sure I missed a big chunk somewhere in the middle

had the most enormous pizza, friend makes the dough so much like real pizza I actually eat the base, with roasted peppers, red onions and those usual suspects, spinach, mushrooms, basil, cheddar, grated mozzarella, normal mozzarella, Parmesan and the chili cheese

it took almost the length of a whole film to eat (what's eating Gilbert grape) and it was worth Getting Fat

am lying in bed converting it into muscle and running powers

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 00:04

I miss pizza.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 00:07

Ooh, you know what I fancy right now? The speciality of the canteen at one of the sixth form colleges I went to - chip pizza. Pizza, wth chips on top, then cheese on the chips, all melty and crisp.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 00:24

O fuck, I'm drunk again.

Since when did I become a drinker?

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 00:25

Will have to take up one of the many, many netflix free trials I keep being offered, and watch OITNB. Even though the BB box set is louring balefully at me from the shelf.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 00:41

Caulky, I haven't seen Homeland either. Well, I watched the first episode. But I don't remember it. It kind of merges into my memories of Hostages (irritating characters constantly grabbing the idiot ball off one another), FlashForward (should've been resolved within one series), and The Event (oh dear) in my head.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 01:15

Have been Walking on Fucking Sunshine for the past four hours. I don't care if this is not an Official Mental Disorder, it's driving me Fucking Nuts.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 01:17

It's the only thing that ever tempts me to take neuroleptics - the knowledge that they can turn four simultaneous overlapping interweaving threads of musical repetitiveness/invention/obsession into a mental blankness and straightforward single-track thought pattern that doesn't fucking splinter and freewheel all the sodding time.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 01:27

It's one of the hazards of accidentally ending up on the mental health track that one gets tempted to use the tools of psychiatric pharmacology to suppress normal if irritating mental shit that everyone experiences.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 01:29

Or at least, perhaps not everyone experiences, but certainly isn't the sole preserve of Official Mentals.

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 02:11

This thread goes quiet at night Grin

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Enpoid · 01/02/2015 02:31

Like, how much low mood/obsession/anxiety/elation/confusion/etc. is within the bounds of normal everyday experience, and how do you distinguish it from Actual Mental Disorder and decide whether it needs treating - and if it is within the bounds of ordinay experience, is t harmful to use medication for it, and is it necessary in people who are prone to Mental Disorder to medicate things which wouldn't require medication in the Truly Mentally Normal, lest they snowball into more abnormal things?

Ach, I dunno Grin

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Mitchy1nge · 01/02/2015 10:04

well exactly!

there is no such thing as the Truly Mentally Normal is there?

Mentalpsychiatrist · 01/02/2015 10:44

Agreed, true Mental Normality is impossible. Everyone has some sort of weird quirk.

Mitchy1nge · 01/02/2015 10:55

it's not as if the boundaries between physical wellness and illness are any sharper, less culturally informed or whatever

we like to pretend they are but they're not

Mentalpsychiatrist · 01/02/2015 11:17

I ache all over after yesterday. Maybe a bath in Epsom salts would do me some good.

Mentalpsychiatrist · 01/02/2015 11:24

Have friends coming for lunch at 2 so should really get out of bed and get dressed. That lamb won't cook itself.

Mitchy1nge · 01/02/2015 11:48

I need to go home really, am just lounging around watching the men's final (aus open) while friends vacuum and dust and polish and prepare lunch for their Other Friends

do not feel up to seeing the man in my life or anything else much

Mentalpsychiatrist · 01/02/2015 11:51

I'm not in the mood for guests but they've been invited now so I might as well put on a good show.

Are you going to have a lazy day mitchy?

Mitchy1nge · 01/02/2015 12:04

laziest I can get away with, yeah

hope it is just a matter of low lithium levels and I haven't got some kind of full blown malingoform disorder