The phone call just came...my Dad died this morning. The care home staff have been wonderful. Now I am the only one of the traditional nuclear family who is left, and I hold all the memories of a Mum, Brother and now Dad.
Social Prescibing updateโฆI am being referred to a Nuffield Health Gym for a free 12 week joint pain management course. Then after the 12 weeks, I get another 12 weeks free access to the gym and swimming pool. If I want to continue after, I get half price membership for life.
@OneNerdyOpinion
Cats use kitty litter as an artistic medium, usually at about 4am. If itโs not spread to the 4 corners of the room and tramped through the house, the cat has lost itโs muse. Excellent catting Dandruff ๐ป๐ป๐ป
@Shrink_at_Large
๐ก๐ก๐กThe number of times I have heard โcan be referred back at any timeโ yet in reality you have to jump through all the hoops, waiting times, seeing staff who donโt read previous historyโฆand, and , and. CMHT, HTT/CRISIS teams lie, obfuscate, deny and exclude DAILY.
This time last year I was waking up in a psychiatric ward as a patient for the first time. I was detained for 10 weeks. I am still here, in no small part due to the care I received whilst on Sec. Anniversaries make me think โwhat ifโ....this is unsettling.
Last night I got extremely frustrated and probably wished I didn't.
However, something unexpected happened.
I was working on a project, and it had to be done THAT night.
In the end after a couple hours I realized it wouldn't work.
I was tired, I had a seriously bad headache
@alisonleary1
Cat just testing out available sofas. One would come into the dining room of the locked psych ward I was in. If there was a lap available it would sleep there, if not a corner of the sofa would do. Was a great therapy cat. ๐บ๐ป
@weskrantz
this often occurs, our 5 month old has caused are 3 year olds and 12 year old to all play with balls, tunnels, boxes etcโฆso basically we now have 4 kittens ๐๐ป๐ป๐ป
@AnneCooke14
@InvisibleG3
We test objects for resilience...by putting them under increasing pressure until the object breaks...we should not be treating people like objects.
@Ermintrude2
@LindsayKempDoc
I went to collect her from the police station after her shop lifting (she was found in wilko with her head in the dog biscuit bin), went to go to where the kennels were, oh no says the desk sergeant, she is in SIU. Find her sitting in a chair, being fed kitkat..stories of my dog!
@drjanaway
This would be an actor.? who at the end of a performance....gets a round of applause for doing his job? actors obviously so seneitive they need a round of applause to keep doing their job....๐๐๐
These are back in fashion ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏbrings back vague memories of being plastered, in the loo, at nightclub, trying to do up poppers. Never ended well. IYKYK and ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
This is our Esme. We put her to sleep at 1pm due to kidney failure. She was a rescue and she was 15. She was a beautiful cat, and we will have fond memories of her coming downstairs at 10pm and stomping around until we went to bed. ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ญ๐ญ
I know it is important to have the conversations following the Panorama prog last night. If you are a mh prof could you commit to at least mentioning the prog at your next team meeting/supervision. Now coming off twitter for the day as this issue makes me feel physically sick.
@Esther_Leighton
@Asteroid_Caller
โhas a detailed knowledge of her conditionsโโฆknows more than I do about this condition and I am threatened by this.
I am beginning to suffer from Appitis....a condition caused by mh proffs advising me that there are many apps available to help with anxiety and mh problems...I can see that cmht will be replaced by an app in the near future ๐โน๏ธ
@LindsayKempDoc
@Ermintrude2
Great...so long as it is not my house. I had a collie x alsation, she was far to intelligent for her own good. She got arrested for shop lifting once, used to be able to breathe in cake from a coffee table from about 6ft away. Lovely dog.
@BubsandJacks
Errg nasty, wouldnโt go swimming if my local pool did this...do the people who dream up these ideas actually have any insight into just how awful this could be for someone....obviously not...wonder if it is worth writing and letting them know how off putting it is.
Husband has caused CHAOS on Maypark. He put our bins out yesterday, all our neighbours followedโฆbin day is tomorrow. But he is enjoying his 5 mins of being a social influencer.
Once again a health trust asking for volunteers to work at the ECT suiteโฆiirc this happened at another health trust, but there was a change of heart when the Mad Community pointed out how this role is not suitable for volunteering. Looks like this needs pointing out again. ๐๐ก
@OttolineW
A friend of mine, who was high up in hosp management, advised me that if I had anything to do with hosp and wasnโt happy, to see if the trust has a fb page and post on it your experience. Did it with my mum who was dying and had poor care, response from hosp was very swift.๐
@Derektracy1
What a great example of someone saying โI am sorryโ....many thanks for your willingness to listen & engage with the concerns and hurt, not becoming angrily defensive of your professional position, and for making the decision to cancel. ๐๐ป๐
So CFT formulation...โThe aim of therapy is for Fiona to become her own therapistโ...huh...wonder if I had a physical illness I would be asked to become my own oncologist, or cardiologist, surgeon ๐ค๐ค๐ค
So I have had a bit of a crash. After struggling the whole year with depression, I have found out that the main cause is lack of thyroid meds. I thought it was Bipolar depression. So I am staying in bed for a bit. Physically and mentally exhausted. ๐
Update tweeps...still in Scotland waiting for a bed nearer home. Meds beginning to kick in (why did I stop taking them ๐ค๐) Hubby has visited. Ward remains calm and safe. Local cat comes and visits & the nurses are always putting the cat out. Hope all is well with you.
In other newsโฆBeans got a letter from a medical professional about treatment for physical thing. Pleased to announce that I have, once again, reached โThis pleasant ladyโ achievement ๐๐๐
@SimonNRicketts
@SameiHuda
My GP has, for the 1st time in his life got 2 dogs. He said he didnโt realise how much love they gave. I told him that is why the poor & homeless have dogs. Coz dogs give you unconditional positive regard, they love you for you, and enable you to love them back honestly.
TWโฆSUI
So Beans was so depressed that she was unable to act on plans. Now she enters the most high risk phase of recovery, physically able and still unwell enough to have plans and intent. Beans is very tired of being mad. ๐๐๐
@JaneyGodley
As a person who lives in England, but very north, not only does the FM talk a lot of sense and cares about you all, your remake of her speeches are a high point of a pretty miserable days....thank you๐
Had a call from Dadโs care home. End of life nurse has assessed that Dad hasnโt got long left. They have the meds needed to make him comfortable ...just waiting now. He certainly has been an indirect casualty of C19.
Exciting news in Beans-landโฆhaving been in the house nearly 2 years, we have finally booked to have the most horrible artificial green turf removed and replaced with 4 growing bedsโฆBeans is now looking at plants, and fancying a fern bed ๐
Beans news...we have now been in our house for 2 years. 6 months after moving, my nasty brain weasels convinced me that it was too dangerous to walk in the nature reserve 2 mins away. Today Tess & I walked in the reserve. Still tough but it's done. ๐
@Esther_Leighton
@Asteroid_Caller
โhas insightโ usually means, sheknows what is wrong, she has the skillz, but is being naughty/bad for not using them. ๐ of course the idea that having insight maybe a fluctuating thing connected to the actual condition I have, seems too difficult a concept to grasp.
For todayโs mental health cookie, Beans has, got up & out of bed, put proper clothes on, sorted out laundry, put everything back in its โproperโ place (looking at you hubby ๐), done routine maintenance on 3D printer &this pm will be playing zoom Advanced HeroQuest. Will then ๐ด
@implausibleblog
it beggarโs belief that 2 MPโs receiving texts, took and posted explicit pictures of themselvesโฆI meanโฆreally ๐ฑ๐คทโโ๏ธ
@ProfLAppleby
@NCISH_UK
disengagementโฆis this a both ways thing ? It always seems to be blamed on the patient and very little responsibility is taken by health professionals regarding their part in it.
Had a bit of a wobbly lip moment with the GP today. ๐ฅนShe has consistently taken my smi as part of the picture, but not the whole. So has arranged all the relevant tests, and is now researching hrt meds interacting with Bipolar and Bipolar meds. โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ๐๐๐
Beans is off to the GP this am. I have moved from the space where everything is shitty & I want to die, usually associated with winter & xmas. TY for all your tweets & madtwitter love. Want to try to get some support for us both when these episodes happen. They are frightening๐ค๐ป
I am realising that today is not a twitter day....too many crit/anti psychs & supporters, who deny my exp of smi & that mh profs, including psychiatristโs, have saved my life. Impotent rage is rubbish. Off to cuddle dogs, finish jet washing the drive, & shoot things on xbox.๐๐
This morning my daily pill box managed to end up in the dishwasher.๐คทโโ๏ธ I take x3 1000mg Omega 3 daily. I had a queue of cats sitting outside the dishwasher. I opened it and a waft of fish came out๐คข FML. Plates report no blunting of emotions after having dose of a/dโs.