I’m on the verge of quitting this blog since my half-arsed entries and wittering about depression when nothing has changed is really beginning to annoy me.
So, To give me some inspiration for new posts, I’m throwing this one over to you lot: ask me a question or give me a topic and I promise to write a blog post about it (relevant stuff would be best!).
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Stumble It!
Biscuits.
You know you could add a few more of these drawings on here.They’re really good.
A question any weird/funny dreams you can recall ? Both myself & hubby have had some funny ones recently (Both on meds)
Write about love and what it means to you.
L’Aptitude Au Bonheur. (Bonheur meaning happiness)
Ingredients:
Pour 80%, Les Genes
Pour 20%, Le Libre-Arbitre
Heard that on the radio, what do you think?
It does reassure me in a way that we cannot decide to be happy, and that some people do have a lack of serotonine in their brain, …because then you can say it is just a lack of serotonine, without trying to find another explanation to that feeling/ depression/sadness/lack of enthusiasm etc…..
But, is there a happy pill available, that really works??
Your favourite London park and why.
What are your thoughts on the supposed “facelift” the Kings X area is getting thanks to the Eurostar? (btw the noodle shop opposite the station is pretty good and not too expensive).
I think you should write a post about how great it is to have me as your big sister!
Irishness vs Britishness?
Waiting Rooms.
I can’t write either, my hand writing is atrocious! I can’t think of a question right now but I am sure you will inundated with a lot from interesting people!
Any idea how to get shards of glass off the bed when I’ve broke the hoover and don’t have a brush?
Are you in touch with any other mentalists you befriended whilst navigating the mental health services of london? Even though I haven’t been an in-pt on a psych ward in a year I quite often wonder about what hapened to some of the people I met in there. There are a couple I stayed on touch with – sometimes I wonder if thats a bit wierd; but because they are the people who truly saw me at my worst I feel like I can be 100% honest with them. Everyone thinks I am “better” now, so when I am having mental thoughts and not feeling at all any better I don’t want to tell my friends of HCP’S because I worry I will have dissapointed them, but I feel more
able to talk to my fellow mentalists.
Stay safe
xXx
Alison – Do you have any sticky tape? I’d give that a go if you do
firstly, please keep up the posts, i’ve really enjoyed reading this blog and have learned a lot!
How about this: advice for someone who is in a relationship with someone who has BPD. Things to do, things to look out for, things to avoid…
~Shiv
Fritzls’s plea of “mental illness” as a reason for his behaviour (Is this sort of behaviour a sign of mental illness? If so, couldn’t every paedophile/murderer/rapist claim that their behaviour isn’t their fault?).
Should Gazza’s problems (Bipolar is his official DX I believe) make the headlines at all, even if they take a sympathetic view? Or should they displaying the car crash for all to see?
Mental illness is difficult to manage – but if you had the treasury at your disposal, and the ability to implement changes in the NHS, what would you do?
Should the NHS rethink their policy on mood stabilisers? Currently, they prescribe the cheapest of those available – claiming that they are most effective for most patients – however, that doesn’t appear to be an actuality.
And to lighten the mood:
Would depressives have a less hard time if there weren’t so many ‘emo’ kids about?
Ok, maybe not.
HAHAHAH That’s great.
Girl I think I might steal your idea and write a few things on pen… sometime.
Make more drawings, will you?
Post what in the internet gives you a smile, even a meme. This is a blog about Manic Depression, but it’s not a book, it has a personal, cozy feel in here. I don’t see why you can’t just say hello and have we people answering, no pressure of explaining more about how you feel, since as you say, it doesn’t seem to be changing. Lets just have a few virtual drinks and talk about nonsense during depression…
I think what you’ve produced on dysphoric mania (or mixed state if you prefer) has been the best stuff I’ve read on the subject. I really think it would be worth collecting various posts together and converting them into one essay. Many people regard William Styron’s Darkness Visible as the best description of depression. I think you’re capable of writing something in the same league on dysphoric mania.
Other possible topics:
* Top five (or ten or whatever) worst experiences with mental health services
* Alternative/complimentary therapies – healing crystals etc
* Welfare reform – my personal obsession.
Part of the reason I have adopted the links and commentary approach on my blog is that I’ll never run out of things to write about – ie there will always be new news stories for me to make worthy or sarcastic comments. You could try this technique. Don’t worry about copying me, I copied the idea from Liz Spikol/Furious Seasons.
Finally, I want to say that your writing is never “half-arsed”. Please don’t think that.
What people/things/places inspire you?
Music/books – recommendations.
By the way, I really enjoy reading what you write and think you have a great style and lots of skill.
should reiki be available on the NHS? (it is, I’m having it)
how do you distinguish between genuine psychic abilities/spiritual beliefs and symptoms of illness?
are reading and writing part of the source of insanity?
“should reiki be available on the NHS? (it is, I’m having it)”
You have to be kidding.
Sorry, but I think the NHS would be better off spending its money on treatments that are proved to work – ie all those alzheimers treatments out there that are deemed too expensive.
I’m not against alternative treatment, but I think whilst there are other treatments out there that are proven to work that aren’t currently available on the NHS, that the money should be better spent.
I second shiv’s request. Perhaps Rob could write a guest blog? Obviously some things aren’t generalisable, and will be specific to the individual with the condition, and specific to the relationship…
Please, please please don’t quit this blog; I love it!!!
I just want to say please don’t stop writing.. i’ve only just started reading and you’re fantastic at it.
I second many of the requests along here – including the relationships idea.
Also agree with more drawings!
Loving the drawings, I too am a recent reader and connect with what you write on a thousand different levels. If you don’t feel like blogging much, why not keep to pictures? They paint a thousand words and I find it amusing….
-Beeper-
I’m not sure what to suggest for an idea. I’m not good at writing, myself, I can never think of what to say.
But I would like to ask you not to give up on this blog. Your posts never seem half-a$$ed; instead your writing is brilliant; the style and frankness absolutely amazing. You clearly describe the things that I can only feel, befuddled and confused as I am by them. You have a way of putting into words that which we all experience, but have a difficult time expressing. And doing it eloquently. Please don’t give up on yourself or your writing.
If you don’t feel like posting something serious, then don’t. Just post on something trivial that matters to you, or that you see out your window. Draw more pictures. Post to give us the weather report. It doesn’t really matter, if you’re having a bad time. Just keep posting. I’ve been reading since March 2007, and I would miss you and this blog terribly. I know that sounds silly, but I would.
I just wanted to say that I think you’re awesome.
I hate you Seaneen! You ruined my life Seaneen and not with your, ahem, ‘half-arsed wittering’ either! You DO look fat in those jeans and you have too, far too many readers, I am frankly jealous. Also you obdurately refuse to link to my hardly-read one! ALSO i HOPE YOU NEVER GET THAT SEASIDE BREAK YOU SO RICHLY DESERVE. i HOPE YOU ARE CONDEMNED TO YOUR GRIMY BEDSIT FOREVER BECAUSE that’s what you get for tangling with me. Your bipolar big sister, Zoe (I didn’t really mean any of that, I was just playing with you. And it’s not too late to redeem yourself!) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Do you ever have times when you feel like there’s nothing wrong with you and you can’t seem to remember how you felt when you thought there was something really wrong with you??
and if you do, do you feel like your being fussed over way too much when that happens??
I’d like to third (unless I’ve miscounted?) the requests for more drawings.
Retro blogging! You could start a new craze…
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Zoe, sarky and quasi offensive comments aren’t the way to get my attention. I didn’t know you linked to me.
Thanks for the comments and suggestions chaps. You need to bear with me if I don’t respond to stuff, I’m quite forgetful.
Zoe, sarky and quasi offensive comments aren’t the way to get my attention. I didn’t know you linked to me.
Thanks for the comments and suggestions chaps. You need to bear with me if I don’t respond to stuff, I’m quite forgetful.
The perspective on your interactions with the NHS and the DHS – what they are doing, what they need to do better – this is very valuable information.
Many people don’t have contact with the health or welfare services in the way you do, and your experiences there need to be told.
eg. I’d never even realized that people < 25 were typically deprived of benefits, before reading your posts here.
I’d never really considered the way the government provides access to semi-derelict, unheated accommodation, which gnaws at self-worth and basically hampers recovery, even though it’s provided in order to “help” — it conveys a message of “neglect”.
You’re unique in that you’ve no agenda to push, other than telling the truth as you encounter it. That in itself distinguishes your writing. You come across as a person dealing with a difficult past, a present illness and a largely autonomous and disinterested health & welfare system that is sometimes redeemed by gemstones such as your CPN.
Your commentary is interesting too. I liked your post on Boris Johnson becoming mayor — (IMHO the guy is a conspicuous idiot — but that he still got in is a shot across the bow to Labour. It tells me Labour urgently needs to retake the initiative (ditch Brown?) or lose to even the flimsiest opposition?)
Your writing is worthwhile and you’re picking topics that are relevant, even if you don’t always see things that way. You’re the conductor of your very own orchestra and you’re learning on the job. Keep faith in yourself and never surrender the baton.
that picture is very good, i like it alot! you should do more of them, although i doubt you would want to do your normal posts like that as it would take quite awhile compared to typing. and dont quit the blog, there are too many people reading it!
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