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Mental Normality NOS

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UpOnDown · 12/02/2015 20:32

Everyone is welcome.

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UpOnDown · 18/02/2015 15:54

(((( Ennn )))) How are you feeling?

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Ennn · 18/02/2015 16:01

I dont know. Kind of confused. Last night I felt like Something Important was continually just about to happen and kept getting fragments of so many different things flying through my head, very difficult when you've got to concentrate. Apologies for typos, my keyboard keeps disappearing on my phone. I had a bath and felt a bit calmer but couldn't sleep obviously and today I'm really struggling to concentrate enough and people taking to me seem to act like they can tell I'm not quite right. Maybe it's just fluctuating levels of the antidepressant?

Ennn · 18/02/2015 16:02

Like constantly hot and tense muscles and like I just have to get up and walk and I want to DO shit but get torn three ways between different shit and end up barely starting all of them Grin I don't know, I think I'm just being silly.

Ennn · 18/02/2015 16:04

So the GP thought i was a little high but I don't feel that elated and lovely like I did when I was high so it can't be that. Screw it Grin

Ennn · 18/02/2015 16:04

Maybe it's anxiety? Confused

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UpOnDown · 18/02/2015 16:06

That sounds disconcerting to say the least Sad When do you next have contact with a professional?

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Ennn · 18/02/2015 16:07

I wish they wouldn't fuck about with my antidepressant.

Ennn · 18/02/2015 16:27

Got an appt in nine days with a GP. Its probably just lack of sleep.

Ennn · 18/02/2015 16:30

How are you Up?

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UpOnDown · 18/02/2015 16:44

Do ring someone if you need, Ennn I'm struggling, but I slept better last night.

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Ennn · 18/02/2015 17:52

Its this screwing around with my dose that's doing it so have cancelled the appt on the 27th and requested a phone consult on the previois Tuesday which means if I can get a prescription THEN Ive got enough to go back up to 45mg now and hope that this confusion and akathisia and sleeplessness is a discontinuation effect that will disappearbwhen I'm back on the right dose. Why do they have to make it so hard jus to get hold of the bloody drugs?

Great that you're sleeping better up

Ennn · 18/02/2015 17:53

Are you still feeling unsafe Up?

Millie2013 · 18/02/2015 18:11

Hugs to all in need
I had a tough, but effective therapy session re childhood trauma. It just makes me very sad, but the main objective is for me to be a good mum to DD, so I plough on.

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UpOnDown · 18/02/2015 18:14

I still feel unsafe, but not as unsafe as I was. Akathesia (sp?) is a horrible side effect to have, as is sleepiness and confusion. Sad

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Ennn · 18/02/2015 18:21

Maybe it's not akathisia but agitation. Am not sleepy, thankfully, spent five years of my life sleepy and won't get those back. It should sort out when I get back on an even keel with the antidepressants. More fool me following medical advice Hmm

Off to gym, hope everyone has a peasant evening. Or even pleasant Hmm

Ennn · 18/02/2015 18:22

It's good that you feel safer than you did even while being aware that you're still having problems Up Flowers

Well done on productive therapy session Millie.

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UpOnDown · 18/02/2015 18:23

Enjoy the gym

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Ennn · 18/02/2015 18:24

Thanks Up, you're lovely

HellinaHandbasket · 18/02/2015 18:33

Have fin at the gym Enn, maybe you can burn some of the edginess off. Have you got access to any sleeping tablets to help with your sleep in the short term?

Glad to hear you're marginally better Up. I hope you feel even better tomorrow.

I hear you on the therapy front Millie. It's slowly dawning on me that my childhood wasn't as idyllic as I like to remember it and it's hard.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 18/02/2015 18:36

I think there are always discoveries like that. I know my childhood was shit, but only now do I realise how bad it was, and how I probably should have been taken into care!

I agree with the gym helping, try and use the thinking part of your brain as much as possible rather than the thinking.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 18/02/2015 18:47

Is anyone else looking forward to Wolf Hall this evening?

HellinaHandbasket · 18/02/2015 18:48

I'm way behind on Wolf Hall. I fell asleep one week and lost the thread if it altogether. I'm now recording it to watch at a later date. I loved what I've seen of it though and I really enjoyed the books.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 18/02/2015 18:53

I watched last weeks, with a friend who knows lots about the Tudors, so that helped Wink I've missed ep 3 so I'm recording them too and planning on watching them in order. I couldn't get on with the book, so wasn't expecting to like it, but I do.

I went to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool to see their Tudor exhibition and there is a great life size Henry viii painting there which was incredible.

HellinaHandbasket · 18/02/2015 18:55

You can't beat a good art gallery. I have a long-standing love for the National Portrait Gallery. Something about all those people represented in so many different ways.

CaulkheadUpNorth · 18/02/2015 18:58

I went to the one here today, and I remembered that it's really not very good, which is why I don't go. It's massive, but you get easily lost and there is little order to it, so you go from pre-raphelite to 1900s to stone to Renaissance and it's just confusing! They have the Staffordshire hoard there which is fun though.