would you rather be Mentally Normal or fat?

[Mitchy1nge]

oi

I have a special mental health badge I got from the charity I go to

Let's end mental health discrimination by wearing badges proclaiming "Hey! I'm a fucking mental!"

Dare I go out with it on?

Everyone asleep?

Well done and kudosnfor resisting the temptation of the chocs Hellina; you be a better woman than I.

Another few hours of Walking on Sunshine done. TBF it did mostly stop while I playwd GTA as it has music which didn't mesh well with it.

Have tried the "STOP." method, which works for about three or four seconds, tried other music, distraction… the. Best thing is focussing on a task with just the right amount of difficulty but at the moment that's tricky cause I can't focus/concentrate well on a single track for some reason :-/

Anyone awake?

Me!! But you're probably asleep now

I'm awake. Funny how's it's those of us with small children.

My small child thinks she's a teenager, she stays up a bit later on a Friday, as OH comes home, so she has a Saturday morning lie in. In fact, she lies in quite often, whereas in awake at 6!!

I'm awake too, no small children but my severe and debilitating calf injury kept waking me up.

Poor you. Sounds far more painful than a wriggly toddler.

it's very very sore but it will start to feel better quite soon I hope

then I can plan my return to running, I will do EXACTLY as they say this time

for today I don't know what to do, is hard to get comfortable unless am actually lying down - what are the rest of you up to?

Awake here too unfortunately. It's my lie in day and I still got lumbered with the preschooler at 6am. God love her.

Calf muscles and small childrnb t

prefer the calf disorder to small children - it will heal faster than they take to grow out of disturbing ones sleep AND it doesn't make me watch Disney films

in one of my more astonishing feats of competence have achieved physio appointment for 11:30 am Monday - hope can drive by then, might try moving car around a bit in a minute, can't flex left ankle very freely or painlessly at present

Morning all. I'm off to ride big grey horse in the pouring rain.

I take it you're not doing the big race tomorrow then mitchy?

am going through it alone :( why no chat? you all have real life lives suddenly?

need a new name too otherwise am simply not part of the gang

ah it's you!

I have scrolled down, I only know one entirely hetero manic depressive psych and often wonder how she is, she was about to marry someone really horrible the last I heard

no, I can't even walk properly and you know what they say about running and walking - I was wondering if I ran on purpose to make it worse, because I knew it wasn't better, because of pre-race apprehension, but then it would have been humiliating to have first ever DNF if it had happened on the course

do you still remember much internal medicine? is really frustrating to talk to people who have been through med school at public expense and can't remember the difference between ligaments and tendons

a cheerful and optimistic new persona for me :)

It's a long time since I had to think much about internal medicine but I can try and access the far reaches of my memory for you if it would help.

Poor mitch.

Ha Polly, like the new name!

you've been an Inge forever

was thinking someone should do a DVT assessment on me

also really really want to show someone my haematoma (that must be what it is?) before you need a magnifying glass to admire it

I'm afraid DVT assessment would be beyond me. Have you got a walk in centre you could go to? As you describe it it sounds very severe for simple muscle strain.