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would you rather be Mentally Normal or fat?

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Mitchy1nge · 01/02/2015 23:18

oi

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Mentalpsychiatrist · 03/02/2015 18:43

I've gotten out of the habit of cooking during the week. I should give DP a break more often. It says a lot that she was amazed to find me cooking when she got home. I'm a lazy cow and she enables me Blush

CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 18:45

Oh mp that sounds lovely. I seem to have lost the details you sent about when I could come round and have dinner. Wink

The ditzy housemate has come and chatted to me and offered to bang on my door each morning and tell me I'm being lazy. I've agreed to trial it with her...

Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 18:45

do you think there is any relationship between laziness and a diagnosis of bipolar?

having created a good network of bipolar friends over the years I can say that many of us seem to be much much lazier (around the house anyway) than other people

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 18:46

I'm v lazy but I blame the bpd. I can't blame the bi polar because the jury is still out on if it have it or not. It's definitely not my fault I'm lazy though.

Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 18:47

chap - tell us he is at least amazingly good at the sexuals or does your tax return for you or something?

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Mentalpsychiatrist · 03/02/2015 18:48

Based on my sample size of me and my cousin I'd say you might be on to something mitchy. I'm a slattern and believe in leaving plenty of work for the cleaner. Last time I was in my cousin's house it was a disaster area. She might have improved since then though.

Mentalpsychiatrist · 03/02/2015 18:54

When manic I clean like a woman possessed though. It's a very good early warning sign Grin

Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 18:56

have never been THAT ill Hmm

I must have a milder form :)

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 18:57

love my new striped top so much to bits

have not seen mad jewish friend for ages in real life, she is lucky am not Actually Fat having bought an XS or I could be killing myself now

(I wouldn't really, I'd secretly order a bigger size so she didn't feel bad)

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 18:59

When wearing an xs you cannot complain about being too fat. It's one of the rules.

Mentalpsychiatrist · 03/02/2015 18:59

You must have!

The more manic I get the less I clean, usually because I'm too busy spending money and putting my life in danger doing ridiculously dangerous things.

Mentalpsychiatrist · 03/02/2015 19:00

Oh to be an XS. I physically the wrong build to be anything less than an L Envy

Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 19:04

I never have, I swear

I make a dreadful mess, more so than usual, especially when I had some great plan that was going to solve lots of global problems and involved cutting up clothes and plastic bags and other things to knit together to make things for dogs to wear (you know dogs, those animals that tend to be clothed in fur already?)

when I was being v restrictive with eating that seemed to spill out into some weird need for order in the house and some cleaning happened then but it probably just brought me up level with normal people

I don't know what I do other than make a total dick of myself? am obsessional anyway but it reaches new levels of intensity and weirdness

:( is first time have thought this for a while but I miss that state a bit :(

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 19:05

helly hansen stuff comes up big I think

and obviously it is very stretchy

and their XS is like a size 8

but still, she is lucky!

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Mentalpsychiatrist · 03/02/2015 19:17

I miss that early phase of mania dreadfully. It's what lures me off the drugs to catastrophic consequences.

Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 19:30

I miss knowing things

there's no other time in life when you can know things with such conviction (I don't remember what these things are or were)

I used to feel so sorry for mortal people worrying about things, eating, sleeping, paying bills, having horrible boring cars

argh I do miss it, I think my obsessive dieting (which is prob to treat my anxiety disorder) is inadvertantly treating my factitious manic depression and leaving me flat and unnaturally antisocial

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Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 19:33

lucky that there is always the intoxicating thrill of The Omelette (spinach, 10% feta, tsp olio, maybe some hot sauce) as soon as my desire for him is under control I can indulge!

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 19:37

Two omelette are being cooked in my house currently. They contain a lot of stuff I imagine.

Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 19:43

oooh wonder what is in them?

have gone entirely mental and added mozzarella and pecorino - get fat quick scheme

and two eggs obviously

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 19:45

Do you want me to find out? Other than eggs I am guessing mushroom onion cheese tomato meat and then served with salad. Plus something in the microwave, beans? Three floor house and I'm on the Middle so I can't spy, only speculate. They will eat up here I imagine though.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 19:46

That's just guessing by what's in the fridge.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 19:48

There is broccoli and blue cheese too.

Mitchy1nge · 03/02/2015 19:50

yay, your first assignment for the Omelette Intelligence Firm for Mental Losers (oi! Fml!)

yes, would like as detailed a report as possible

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CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 19:53
  1. Three eggs blue cheese cheddar two tomatoes and an onion with broccoli and courgettes
  1. Three eggs feta haloumi meat onions peppers mushroom with salad and courgette.
CaulkheadUpNorth · 03/02/2015 19:54

I'm never asking again though, they thought I was weird.