Given everything that’s happened to me since I last blogged I really feel I should insert a profound, poignant, detailed post here but I’m not going to as I’m not up to fluent prose at the minute. Instead I thought I’d share a little bit about what I’ve learned in the last week in handy list format- with numbers for easy reference.
1- Never go without food entirely for six days
2- Never go to Argos
3- Always avoid situations where hymns will be sung
4- Never let your first interaction with a different GP be largely wordless aside from incoherent shrieking and an insistence that you are “fine”
5- Never get in a CPNs car
3- Never tell a psychiatrist that you intend to kill yourself
4- Always inform health professionals in advance that you do not like to be touched- loudly and assertively
5- Always take an overnight bag if you are taken to a psychiatric hospital to be “assessed”
6- Always challenge the use of the Mental Health act if you perceive it to have been abused
7- Always assume you won’t see a doctor and be discharged until early evening at least
8- Never underestimate how much people care about you
9- Never assume you can leave it to someone else to get the spiky thing to put the washing line in
10- Never underestimate your ability to install small domestic appliances and make it entertaining
11- Always measure, mark and then drill, don’t just drill
12- Always pay attention to that little white stick and those little red lines on your cars petrol gauge
13- Never tell people you are fine when you are not
14- Never assume nothing is unforgivable, some things are so terrible they are
15- Always trust your instincts
16- Never go four days without washing your hair
17- Never forget that stubbornness and arrogance can be used for your own benefit too
18- Never underestimate the power of tea
19- Always make time for toast
20- Always remember that “the best thing about Mama’s bed is that it’s got Mama in it”
So another quiet week then………..
don’t know what to say but thanks so much for hanging in there xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oh it was a pleasure, well it wasn’t really but everybody says it’ll all be worth it one day and I totally trust everybody as they know so much more than me! Thanks for taking the time to comment.
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Many lessons learnt – exhausting…
No 20 is my favourite tho and 19 is not far behind :O)
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No 20 is just fab isn’t it? Theo said that to me out of the blue yesterday morning whilst we were having a cuddle in bed. 6 year old’s can do the anti-suicide thing much better than the professionals can.
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this made me cry. love to you zoe x
I never know what the correct response is here, sorry i made you cry, unless it was a full-on snot and tears cleansing sob and you feel better for it. Thanks for dropping by and for commenting.
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4 days, my hair didnt get washed for 7 weeks!!!!!! I only washed it in phych unit because some mad women spilt coke all over it!
I do like you list though!
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Eeeeew! 7 weeks? You’re gross! My hair is my mood barometer but then it becomes a kind of mobius loop- get depressed- don’t wash hair- hair gets manky- manky hair makes me depressed and so on. Just washed it in fact so should be safe from the gut-wrenchingly painful depression that I had all day yesterday! Christ if only it were that easy huh?
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my hair is also a depression barometer. although it looks vile if i don’t wash it every day, so i don’t have to be down long to look utterly mad.
what a shitty week you have had. so glad you are still swimming. also very pleased you have your gorgeous kids to cuddle.
be kind to you, yes ?
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