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		<title>Thank you</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey chaps, thanks very much for your comments on my previous post.  I feel pretty toss mentally at the moment so if I bugger off that&#8217;s why.
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		<title>Feck</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am embarrassed to be writing this but I need to talk.
(Talk of imaginary spiders and ranting, cut for boringness and embarrassment)

Rough night.  I haven&#8217;t been to sleep, which is okay, because I slept in today after taking medication and not sleeping the day before.  I&#8217;m not tired so it&#8217;s also okay for that reason.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6151&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hypocrite</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know the vast majority of people with mental illnesses- like the vast majority of people without- aren&#8217;t going to stab me.  So I am feeling quite guilty that this morning, while in the reception area of my local CMHT, I seriously thought I was going to get knifed by someone sitting opposite me. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6145&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you Psych Central! and therapy things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, this entry is sponsored by parenthesis (signifying an aside so you don&#8217;t have to).  And tiredness.
I&#8217;m in Robert&#8217;s new digs in South London, where he was born and grew up.  He is currently in pyjama bottoms exercising with a giant pumpkin.
Edit:

Thanks Robert!
First of all,  THANK YOU! to Psych Central for giving this blog first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6105&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hooray</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/hooray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to apply for this.
Addaction SmartScheme
Good idea?
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		<title>&#8220;STATE-SANCTIONED MALINGERING IS THE BIRTISH DISEASE&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/state-sanctioned-malingering-is-the-birtish-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Birtish&#8221;?
If this article can&#8217;t even be properly edited then why should I trust what they have to say?  Learn to spell.
The Daily Express is a horrendous little rag anyway, but here, for fun.
It is telling that more than1.1million incapacity claim- ants are not suffering from any physical disability at all, but get their handouts by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6091&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6am, awake</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/6am-awake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And tearful.  I miss my dad. I feel sad, in an almost nice way, because sometimes it&#8217;s good to sit in the early morning quietness and miss someone.
I&#8217;m going home next month for a week.  My family live in a different house now.  So he has never been there, and yet, I miss his presence.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6083&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hooray, I&#8217;m not dead!</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/hooray-im-not-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tongue in cheek but &#8230;
Happy one year anniversary of me not succeeding in topping myself!  And three year anniversary of being diagnosed with the mentals!
Shame, my flat&#8217;s a bit of a mess right now.  Maybe I should find some more pills for the sequel and get it cleaned again.
It&#8217;s been a very strange year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6069&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big old pile of toss</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/big-old-pile-of-toss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like shite today.  How are you?
Posted in Bipolar Disorder       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6065&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My body the hand grenade</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/just-a-moan-nothing-to-do-with-mental-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because this blog is the only place I feel free to moan.  This isn&#8217;t a blog about eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder but I still have both (to use the names of the terms, shorthand) and they are making me fucking miserable.

I am on the verge of ripping my arm open and pulling the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6051&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is there any debate on this?</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/is-there-any-debate-on-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to rush out to go to a wedding reception so apologies for this post being short and rubbish but quickly, here&#8217;s a story on the Daily Mail website about a twenty six year old woman who swallowed anti-freeze and arrived at hospital with a note requesting her wish to die.  Which was honoured.
It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6041&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workshy scroungers redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pole to Polar: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Hypomania is calming down.  I am a little bit disappointed by the relative quietness in my head.  This typing sounds like thunderclaps.
Anyway, hooray for the Conservatives, the new-New Labour.  First we find out that DLA is in danger and now they want to cut incapacity benefits and boot people onto JSA, which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6024&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dos and Don&#8217;ts was nominated for a Mind Mental Health Media Award. Hooray!</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/hurrah-dos-and-donts-was-nominated-for-a-mind-mental-health-media-award-hooray/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheers, MHM!

Leading mental health charity Mind today announces the shortlist for this  year&#8217;s Mental Health Media Awards, sponsored by Comic Relief and Shift.Terry Pratchett, Fiona Phillips and Alastair Campbell are among those competing for the full length television documentary prize, and the BBC and Channel 4 go head to head in many of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=6006&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-DELIVERANCE!  Literally.  DLA forms have turned up!
So, er, panic averted.  Anyone got anything nice to talk about?
Fucking DLA renewal form that took me ages to do has been lost in the post.  I have to start again, I have no copies of anything, my benefit ends on 15th October after which I have to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=5990&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A note</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/a-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I habitually private/delete posts here that I consider too personal/too whingey/too directionless (on a blog like this, the criteria is rather&#8230; loose).  So if something you comment on goes missing, it&#8217;s not you, it&#8217;s me.
I got a few emails with my last into-the-ether post asking if they&#8217;d personally pissed me off.  No, and no-one ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=5981&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BBC Ouch on disability</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/on-disability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello!  Here is another article from me on BBC Ouch.  It&#8217;s about what I discussed here recently; feeling like a fraud in terms of &#8220;disability&#8221;.
Here&#8217;s an excerpt from it:
One night at the pub, I was emptying my pockets looking for my keys when it fell out. It lives in a distinctive orange wallet and has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=5964&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before I go, a relevant post on therapy</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/before-i-go-a-relevant-post-on-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Hello!  Occasionally some posts, like this one, will be illustrated by the lovely Prozacville, so go and visit him and give him praise as you would a deity.
I am sick of having &#8220;issues&#8221;.  But here is a post moaning about them!  Delicious irony.
But ooh.  I had forgotten the (free and fixed) Macbook had Photobooth.  Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=5932&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>24</title>
		<link>http://thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right, enough self pity for now! I need a self pity break.  I have one scheduled in my calender.  (This is not true.  The only calender I have in my vicinity is the Ramadan Countdown Calender.  It has chocolates.  It was a worthy purchase).
Tomorrow I am 24!  Or I could be 24 today, because nobody [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=5928&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh dear</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the most violently dispiriting thing about filling in my DLA renewal forms: that I have to write about my worst days, my calamitous failures, my frequent inabilities to do even the simplest of things, in order to keep receiving it to be able to carry on living in my flat (my entire living situation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=5922&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mood Disorder Research Joy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mood is still in the gutter, spiraling between complete emotional nothingness and depression, so, eh!  Combination of general mentalism and realising I got knocked on my arse in April, had a little bit of a breakdown and haven&#8217;t been the same since.  I have little motivation to write, or do much else.
I did, however, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive.wordpress.com&blog=766446&post=5906&subd=thesecretlifeofamanicdepressive&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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