Psychiatrists hate her! One weird £5 trick for Mental Normality

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Is she able to prescribe? Will the group this afternoon be helpful, so you think?

It was difficult. She suggested taking diazepam, and I'm still seeing the equivalent of the crisis team. I feel so hopeless.

have achieved physio and am still alive

if your mood gets worse enn surely CC will bring appt with psych forward although I know the services can be shit

hugs for up

diazepam helpful usually? it often holds me together (not my calf muscles but mentally)

"we don't usually see people your age, I think you might be the youngest person I've ever seen"

WTF???? Was s/he in the first week of his/her job, or mistaking you for a 16 year old?

How was the physio?

Possibly it's representative of the area I'm in? I've also been told I'm too intelligent to have a mental illness before and that they don't ever see Christians either. I'm like a walking anomaly.

Yes, I've had the "not-used-to-seeing-Christians" line. I sometimes suspected that those who had, erm, an agenda seemed a little smug in suggesting that God mightn't have done his job properly.

Do you ever get them suggesting that you distract yourself with an entry-level literacy/numeracy course because mentals can't possibly read?

It's Othering. As a staff member of the Crisis Team or CMHT, you need to distance yourself from patients, to believe that they are different from you, to reassure yourself that mental abnormality happens to Them but not Us. So if you regard yourself as young/intelligent/educated/religious/literate/[insert whatever] then you have to stereotype your patients as old/thick/uneducated/irreligious/illiterate/etc. If you don't, then you might have to face up to the horrific bogeyman of the realisation that mental distress can happen to anyone, even YOU.

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Diazepam is usually useful. How's everyone doing?

Does anyone feel that their destiny is preordained?

Not too bad, thank you. I almost had an urge to be productive, but it went!!
How's you?

Sometimes I think I'm destined to be miserable forever. But then I get a bit curious as to whether things might get better, if I just keep
Plodding on

I'm struggling. I don't know what they can do if I ring and say I'm suicidal, does anyone know? I've almost finished my note, it's getting repetitive.

I thought my destiny was to be ordained for a while. Does that count?

somehow I have hidden this thread from myself and it is enormously annoying

am ok though, have a very simple and understandable plan for returning to running that starts with being able to do some seated calf raises without pain (then standing then can start run/walk then build back to running normal miles) I attempted one calf raise but made a noise that didn't sound human so it is still a bit tender

am joining a more local to me gym even though there will be some overlap with payments to David lloyd - easier to get to, not overstaffed

Sounds like it, caulk

Up, I assume they do a risk assessment? Why don't you phone? I can't imagine they'll send a team of men in white coats
Thinking of you, you're not on your own

I thought my destiny was to be a nun who got martyred for her faith

that was obviously a load of shit

it's up to us what we do, we make choices allllll the time that shape our destinies whether we are conscious of those decisions or not

our choices our responsibility

Up, just give them a call :) they might be helpful, stranger things have happened. Hope the diazepam is taking the edge off.

Took DS1 back to the unit this morning and I've been in bits ever since. Ugh. In bed with Wolf Hall now but got to the bit when his kids die and then my mum rang up so I burst into tears. Self pity going off the scale.

Ring them, it's about giving people the opportunity to honestly how things are and then trusting that they deal with this every day and so will help in what they believe is the best way.

When will you next see ds1, david? How far away is the unit?