Arty Kitkat
The local library is a good idea as I've got loads of good stuff from there too. Also look around online, even you tube. When I was learning to crochet someone on here pointed me towards some you tube tutorial and they were really good. I was surprised as it hadn't occurred to me to look here.
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I had a GP appointment today and I just happened to mention this to him and he suggested that I make sure that my hands and feet are warm enough because what might be happening is that my hands and feet get cold and send and message to my brain telling it to turn the heating up (well its a bit more technical than this but you get the idea) and it warms up the middle part of me as thats where all my organs and things are and they are the priority. I'm going to try this out somehow tho I don't know about wearing gloves at work. There is a kind of logic to it and maybe why even in the coldest weather I'm dripping in sweat and feeling horrible. I have cut down my caffiene a little so I'll see if that helps too.
Lakesha, I think what Sheila put is good advice - you battle on and win each day. When I've been at my worst I've struggled to get off the sofa so please don't be too hard on yourself for not doing all the things you used to do. Maybe these things are too much right now and you need to try much smaller things. One of the things I used to do was make myself up a very simple diary sheet with the day at the top and I'd try and right down 3 positive things I'd done. By this I don't mean the everyday stuff I used to do, but smaller scale stuff like picked up prescription, washed hair, took dry clothes of airer, posted a letter..... Also try and remember that a mental illness is every bit as serious and exhausting as a physical one. You therefore won't necessarily have the energy to do the things you did when you were well. Also I find when I'm bad it very difficult to talk face to face or on the phone so I used my mobile to text people and chatted to people online or via forums like this. This is no less valid as chatting face to face, its just using another medium.
In the UK we have Crisis Teams to support people when they are discharged from hospital or on leave or at risk of being hospitalised. That means that people have someone visit them potentially several times a day if needs be to check in with how they are coping. They also link in with a psychiatrist and can tweak medication with minimum fuss. Do you have anything like that in the US?
You could also think about planting something on the day - maybe a rose bush or something that will grow over the years. I work at a daycentre and run a gardening group there and we have lost 3 members over the years and we (clients and staff) have found it comforting and has given us all a space (both in terms of time and place to think) to do something for that person which will live on. Also plants like rosebushes often have names for their breed and we were able to get a really aptly named one for one member.
Oh that is so true Sheila! I see that all the time at work - I was told by a very experience therapist that I know through work that sometimes 'madness' is the only sane reaction to a situation.
This is my page but I haven't done much with it yet http://thriftygreenkat.ning.com/
These are beautiful Ale & Debs 
I can imagine they would be really pretty on a handmade card like one for Mothers day
I don't even watch TV on my PC. I think I just reached saturation point at the Christmas time before last cos there was so many reality shows and repeats on. I don't mind the odd repeats (especially Morse ) but Friends seemed to be on a loop and I just had enough. I don't miss it, which is odd cos I thought I would. I do wonder where the tv license goes tho - its not Jonathan Ross' back pocket anymore as he's quit so who knows!
You still need a license for some dogs. But anyway you should see the letters they send - Enforcement offers have been authorised to visit 'my postcode'. What's that supposed to mean??? You don't need authorisation to visit a property, gaining entry is another matter.
The December before last me and my bf stopped watching tv. In the May of that year we thought we would take the plunge and got rid of the telly. In the June I wrote to the TV license people and told them and they cancelled the license and no more payments were made. For about the last 6 months the TV license people have been writing increasingly threatening letter which imply that they can come onto our property and check. They can't! All they can do is knock on your and ask to have a look. We are not willing to do this as I partly think its a stupid exercise. I could still have a telly (which we don't) and have it in another room or I could go out and buy one the next day and endless other things. The main reason I won't let them in or play ball is because I have told them I don't have one and I take offence at being asked to prove it. I looked up our legal situation and we are legally within our rights and they do not have any legal jurisdiction. They can't obtain a warrant, they can't search your property, the interview that they do is apparently illegal and they have no grounds for suspicion.
In our attempt to lighten the mood we thought up no end of licenses that if you don't have them you don't have to prove it. I don't have a license to practice medicine but the BMA aren't going to come round and check I'm not pretending to be a doctor. I do have a pilots licence, a driving licence, a fishing license, a dog license, a firearms license! I'm also not James Bond and don't have a license to kill Rah rah rah
Okay, Rant over. Thank you for listening
From what she has said to me it sounds like she will leave. What I'm suspecting she'll do though is just stop using her account, rather than delete it altogether. That way she has the option to come back at a later date when she feels she has a bit more distance from the nasty comments. I think its easy to say she should just ignore them or not let them win as I think the down side of being creative is that you are more sensitive. You only need to look at the depression thread to see how many of us struggle with this. Sometimes even against our better judgement the comments of a stranger can really sting. I got a bit of a tongue lashing of someone recently and the logical part of me was saying to myself, its just one person who doesn't know me and I don't know them, etc.... But unfortunately my brain wasn't playing ball that day and it just made me feel stupid and really horrible about myself. I feel a bit of a fool admitting this but I was in tears and had to give it a day or two before I could read it again and responded.
I do this too and it does help identify patterns. I would also recommend marking in your period too. I didn't realise until I started to improve a little but I was and still am getting awful pmt. I also found Wednesdays and Thursdays were bad for me so I cut my hours at work. I now don't work Wednesdays. Its a struggle financially as I wasn't well paid to start with but I cope better throughout the week. I'm still pretty bad on Wednesdays but at least and can retreat to bed and rest up. I also was having panic attacks in the bath and found that I was unconsiously counting the rhythm of the fan and it was speeding up my thinking so I changed to bathing by candle light. I still get anxious but no where near as bad.
I do this too and it does help identify patterns. I would also recommend marking in your period too. I didn't realise until I started to improve a little but I was and still am getting awful pmt. I also found Wednesdays and Thursdays were bad for me so I cut my hours at work. I now don't work Wednesdays. Its a struggle financially as I wasn't well paid to start with but I cope better throughout the week. I'm still pretty bad on Wednesdays but at least and can retreat to bed and rest up. I also was having panic attacks in the bath and found that I was unconsiously counting the rhythm of the fan and it was speeding up my thinking so I changed to bathing by candle light. I still get anxious but no where near as bad.
I just read this as fan of alternative boobies lol Sorry I just thought I'd share that.
I've messaged her on fb and she's really busy with the business. It looks like she may leave here tho