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

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I get what you are saying about the bouts of low mood though, or I think I do

but do you think it just happens by itself, in some sort of preordained way or could there be more complex causes-of-the-causes that no GP could begin to fathom within the average 11 minute appointment and so would simply adjust AD dosage whereas the secondary care people can actually observe you a bit over time, see how your coping styles and personality and life circumstances (historic and current) factor and also obviously refer you to other services like psychology that might not be available in primary care?

I suppose they might, if they had unlimited time and resources.

I just think this idea that there are people who are mentally ill and people who are not mentally illill and those things hold true all the time whether they're currently symptomatic or not is a bit problematic for people with episodic problems.

I think of it as a spectrum.

I suppose those are your options - that lot or the GP

it's an imperfect system but at least you have some continuity with your care coordinator and she did set up an appointment for you quite quickly with the psych when you asked

other than paying for it I don't know how else you can access the treatment you want

wish I hadn't linked to that site, I really want another knitted dress

But when I, say, fill in a form, mental illness is treated as a thing I either have or don't have. Not something I'm prone to episodes of or not prone to episodes of.

I'm not seeing the psych until next month.

I don't think anyone really divides people into Mental or Normal other than us on our threads

most things are episodic and range in the severity with which they compromise functioning and so on - I think it's just a thing in your head that it somehow signifies a massive difference from the rest of the world who don't use secondary mh services but it's not really

other than paying for it I don't know how else you can access the treatment you want

Hmm, do I detect irritation with my ambivalence?

I waver a lot on here because I use this space to try and work out what I want and what I'm doing. Sorry, I know it's annoying.

sorry I meant Mentil or Normil

I'm not irritated in the least, am also just thinking out loud

but it does sound like an annoying circular thing for you to keep going round and round

most things are episodic and range in the severity with which they compromise functioning and so on

Gods yes, I agree, but most of the systems we have to fit into don't work like that, do they? Benefits, healthcare, legal protections, its all binary yes/no black/white innocent/guilty entitles/not entitled ill/well categories.

oh yeah, our rigid and intolerant society has a lot to answer for

but you don't have to view yourself through that lens, do you? I get DLA etc but I only think of myself as disabled when it suits me

Ha! Dont remember that sketch (ages since i Listened to TMAWS) but before I clicked, your post made me think of the cheese or petril robot on TMAWL

Heh me too Polly - and now I'm on lower rate for both I feel like I'm somehow "less disabled" even when I do fond it useful to be disabled (must get another CEA card - if I get myself a cineworld unlimited card with Tesco points too, that's entertainment for me and DP sorted for a year )

I wish I could wear my knitted legging things to the shop but they are baggy and hairy and you can see my underwear through them

whatever I wear needs to look partially ok with running shoes since they are very kind to my tendons

I like being called Polly, my best pony club friend was called Polly Hilariouslyposhname

let's stalk her on FB and THEN go to the shop, they are open until 4, we have allllll day

I don't know when I will be assessed for PIP - I have an indefinite DLA award and have done for years; only got reassessed downwards because i asked them to, and wasn't expecting to have to be reassessed again

Mind you it was the same with IB - I was essentially supposed to not have to be assessed again for that, and they still made me claim ESA and put me in the WRAG - so after a year, I had no more ESA (I tried to appeal but they put it through as an application to be reassessed and decided I'm support group, which means that while I got my ESA back, it wasn't backdated to cover the period I had no money).

I love posh people! I went to a school with some of them. Not my crowd, we were the scholarship/bursary/forgoing summer holidays and fancy food to pay fees crowd, not the "well Minty just didn't fancy Cheltenham Ladies' so we're slumming it at the local day school" crowd. But some of them were highly amusing.

There was one girl who I would swear on my life her family called Juicy.

Peeling off PJs and getting dressed to go to supermarket. Cooooollld.

Have just realised one of my major criteria for poshness is "do they have a horse"

ah same

have an outbreak of severe obesity all over myself which will make leaving the house both physically and mentally challenging, assuming I can pour my bulk into any sort of clothes at all

Found out the hard way that my hiking boots have a hole in them. Feel good having been for a walk and a chat. Was very tempted to cancel this morning as I thought I wasn't up to other people. Proves I need to push myself more.