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Mental Normality NOS

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UpOnDown · 12/02/2015 20:32

Everyone is welcome.

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Millie2013 · 19/02/2015 19:11

Up, there are far worse habits than diet coke and tea :) I drink far too much earl grey tho

UpOnDown · 19/02/2015 19:11

Wow, look at this

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Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:12

I seem to buy coke zero in vast quantities when I'm up. Should probably be on my care plan Grin the home treatment team came round once when I'd just done a coke run and made some pointed comments Hmm

PollyPooic · 19/02/2015 19:16

well researched up

#3 pretty much lives on nesquik so is exciting to see her branching out into other food groups

Chapuys · 19/02/2015 19:19

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PollyPooic · 19/02/2015 19:20

leave out everything in between glass of wine and going to bed?

what are you feeding the husband to - the dogs?

Chapuys · 19/02/2015 19:25

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Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:25

Congrats on getting to every other day with the crisis team,Up Smile

I don't quite know why the crisis team here are called the crisis team when you ring them, but the home treatment team when they're visiting you Hmm

I couldn't handle their lack of reliability when I was ill; the crisis/home treatment team became just another stressful thing I was apparently responsible for organising/dealing with. And when I pointed out their dire timekeeping/saying they'd call back and never doing so/saying they'd visit and never doing so/agreeing not to visit and visiting anyway, and (politely!) asked for some better communication, it was treated like an odd quirk of mine that I was so pernickety about these things, but that nevertheless "lessons had been learned going forward". I must've been told lessons had been learned about half a dozen times Hmm

Presumably their workload is just so immense there's no time left for things like adequate communication etc. - most of them seemed lovely but the system is so fucked that the whole thing was just unhelpful.

Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:27

Come to think of it they didn't actually visit me when I was ill Hmm they only visited when I was up, and by the time the depression hit I was under CMHT.

PollyPooic · 19/02/2015 19:34

just leave it or delegate (there are two adults there right?) you are breaking in a new antidepressant, you don't have the time to get all martyred about domestic stuff, you must lie down with some wine and wait for them to act, it could be a few weeks Grin

I liked my crisis team, the psych was cool, the ones that brought the drugs twice a day were ok but they used to suggest mad things like 'shall we watch a terrible DVD together' Hmm who can sit down and watch tv when they are having my sort of mental breakdown - which usually involves a lot of physical movement

Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:36

Polly's right as usual IMO Chaps - take it easy for a bit Grin

UpOnDown · 19/02/2015 19:36

We don't have crisis team or home treatment team any more, it's called 'step up', and you see people from cmht. Which is fine, but nobody knows what you mean if you say step-up. They haven't been great with timings though, sometimes turning up an hour in advance which doesn't fit with carers.

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Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:39

Or did they visit me when I was depressed? Hmm ISTR the gorgeous OT turning up in my bedroom at one point when I was hiding under the duvet, which doesn't sound like a very mentally healthy thing to be doing

Why do I lose whole chunks of memories?

PollyPooic · 19/02/2015 19:40

I have no idea what we have now (am I usually right? that would be nice! Grin) but it was Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment Team and way before that I had Assertive Outreach which was my lovely ASW and a sidekick coming every morning and doing charts and mood scales and things - which I found completely baffling, but now the concept of using a number to describe my mood makes a bit more sense

PollyPooic · 19/02/2015 19:41

I remember running, naked BlushBlushBlush up and down my stairs

was a straight to hospital without passing Go kind of day

Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:42

My lot once didn't turn up, so I went for a walk while I was waiting, and three hours later they rang me to ask if I still wanted a home visit. I said "no, I'm three hours' walk from home" so they turned up at my home and asked DP where I was and why wasn't I at home Hmm

Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:43

Naked stair running not a wise idea with chestflaps Grin

PollyPooic · 19/02/2015 19:43

mercifully I forget most things

joy of half a brain

and almost four thyroid glands (just stop thinking about it)

Millie2013 · 19/02/2015 19:43

I want slutty brownies.
I shall have to make do with salted caramel ice cream :)

brightandbreezyNot · 19/02/2015 19:44

Yeah brownies sound yummy

HellinaHandbasket · 19/02/2015 19:47

I'm having Moroccan meatballs but I really want a slutty brownie.

Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:48

Sounds like dodgy schoolgirl porn to me

Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:49

Obviously I don't mean IOCSA, I mean that crap where thirty-year-okd women dress up in tartan skirts Blush

Ennn · 19/02/2015 19:49

Moroccan meatballs sound gorgeous

UpOnDown · 19/02/2015 19:51

I fancy a slutty brownie too. I have no icecream, not even frozen yoghurt. Sad

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