support thread for those living alone

[ellymouse]

hi everyone, just wondered if there was anyone else out there with mental health issues living on their own? can't believe i'm starting a support thread! i feel like a proper member now!
my dh and i are currently living apart, its not forever but it feels like it. this is the first time in my life i've lived on my own and i'm finding it very very hard.
when i get the voices and muddled as well as my hysterical crying fits its so hard without knowing that at some point it isnt going to be just you and the darkness, that your dh will come home.
does anyone have any tips? anything they do when they're alone and its getting too much that helps?
one thing i've found for voices (auditory hallucinations) is putting my ipod on loud with the headphones. what i really need help with is the mood slumps when all the lights in your head go off, your on your own and you have no credit. dont actually hace a computer at mine have to use my mums! but will get one when i can so until then does anyone have any tips or just want to chat?

Hi ellymouse, I live alone well it is just me and ds I don't really have any tips but thought I would reply so you dont think you are the only one.

I live alone, apart from when there are so many teenagers the house looks like an episode of Skins, but think this is a blessing really as don't have to be careful about a partner's moods or needs - easier to look after Self than Self plus another. Hope you don't find it too hard on your own.

hey ellymouse / mitchyinge how you guys doing?

i'm good today, it's sunny outside which seems to make everything easier!
do you lot have your family near you? my mum lives really nearby but we're not close and all my friends have moved away so i think thats adding to the isolation, its awful when you consider ringing the crisis line just for a chat cuz your so lonely! i dont of course, but i just cant wait to get the internet at mine so i can come on here more often instead of talking to the dog! of course when the baby arrives i'll probably be too busy to be lonely, thats what i'm hoping!
how are you littlemarshmallow?

I am okish still struggling, my mum and dad live about 2 hrs from me and I dont have any friends nearby I have a lodger but well he is annoying and likes to hand out lectures about what is should / should not be doing with ds but hey ho.

I am at work today which kinda sux because my boss is a pita but it pays the bills and i did make it in so that is a good thing

when is your baby due?

well done for getting to work, hope it passes quickly for you. due 20th may, but i'm really worried today about whether i'll cope. my dog went mad last night messing everywhere so i was up after 2hrs sleep washing the entire flat and vacuuming at 4.30am! i've scrubbed, bleached and disenfected everything and its now 10am and i'm the waking dead! feel like i've had a lobotomy and want to cry! with a baby thats gonna be every night no sleep!
scares the hell out of me!
your lodger sounds really annoying, one of the few friends i have got keeps lecturing me even though she's got no kids, she's just read a magasine article and thinks she's the new supernanny !

Yeah I have a friend like that too although she does have a ds but she thinks she is qualified to pass judgement on me and ds.
When I told her I was trying to find some counselling for ds she turned round and said "oh whatever for?" When I told her it was for his dad's death she stated "Oh isnt he over that already" needless to say I haven't spoke to her in a month and have little intention to do so soon.

Having a pretty rubbish day, work was horrific took all my energy not to tell them where to stick their job but two more days till the weekend

people can be so sensitive cant they?! i'm not surprised you havn't spoken to her since, i'd be fuming. sorry work was so awful, hope the rest of the day gets better.

Hi ellymouse, how are you doing this week?