17 Mar 17:37
I've had that happen on one of mine - my Quorn Korma
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16 Mar 23:02
I'm trying to follow you too but Googles being a bit crap but I'm sure it will sort itself out soon. My blog is Kitkatkatchat.blogspot.com - feel free to follow me too :) I've just been playing round with the look of it and I'm not sure if I like it :/
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13 Mar 19:41
Thank you. The virtual hug was very much appreciated x
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12 Mar 21:08
I thought I was having a better today and then in the last 10 minutes I was upstairs in the staff room chatting to one of our volunteers who I've worked with for years and who happens to also be a qualified mh social worker and somehow in our rant and setting the world to rights I told her that I also had mh problems. This was okay but we were talking about the failings of some new systems that are coming in and I think I made myself sound like I was potentially really unstable. Ordinarily, if I was feeling well I'd shrug it off but it now seems to have set off a whole train of thought thats gone down a really negative road. I feel so stupid for not being more careful about what I disclose and how I disclose it and I wish I could just turn the clock back and unsay what I said.
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12 Mar 20:59
I thought we hadn't seen you about for a bit but had no idea you were going through all of this. It takes a lot of guts to do what you did so well done and welcome back :)
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11 Mar 19:11
Michelle every time I try and look at the Alice thread on the film & tv board my computer shuts all the windows I have open! It really doesn't seem to want me to look at it which is a bit odd. I has occasionally done this in the past to things I've looked at on MSN but this is just odd. This therefore means I can't view the episodes you posted. I'll have a look on you tube though.
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11 Mar 19:02
My mood is all over the place at the moment that I'm finding it really hard to cope. I seem to be managing to go into work and help others with their problems but then when I come to go home I'm shaking and feel tearful. I've also noticed that when I get like this my thoughts are not just negative but they turn really cynical. We have an out of hours mental health helpline that I could call but when I'm like this and when I got home from work today I was crying but I had convinced myself that the helpline was the equivalent of a cake which you cut into and find its just icing. I think my thinking was that it looks inviting but calling it is ultimately pointless. Talking about how I feel to some random stranger feels too hard as I struggle with the phone when it comes to talking about me. I did one thing which I hope will help. I telephoned my psychiatrists secretary and left a message asking for my appointment to be moved forward.
It feels at this moment like I'm managing but I know that a few minutes on my own thinking the wrong kind of thoughts will lead things to spiral. I've been living with this now for over 2 years. I've suffered with depression since I was about 8 and have had about 4 episodes lasting a few years but this one just seems to be going on and on..... It lifts for a bit and then it goes again. Its as if being well(ish) wears me out and I can't keep it up any longer and I crash.
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10 Mar 19:10
I don't think there was any real or deep reason behind him taking them. I suspect he took them because he could. By this I mean breakups are never clean and tidy in my experience and they can bring out the worst in all of us at times. I've done the pettiest things in the past to make myself feel a bit better and more in control. I spent I whole evening going through old photos and neatly trimming an ex out of all of them. I then cut him into tiny little bits and tipped the bits in the bin. I suspect taking something so personal to you and him made him feel good and in control. As time passes I suspect he will look at them and wonder what the hell was going on in his head but there is so many feelings going on when the break up is fresh that sometimes you do things which make no sense.
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10 Mar 19:02
I used to have mine shaved really short up the sides almost as far as the original pic and there is still a fair amount you can do with it when its down. I sometimes used to do a french plait (i think its a french one, where you start with a skinny plait at the top and gradually add bits). I used to have mine completely shaved though, a bit like Violetta's husband and I used to love the feel of it, especially in the hot weather. It stays quite cool and I used to get called velcro head when it was freshly shaved :) You can also do extra bits and bobs with colours and ribbons. I used to have the hairy bit coloured deep red and the sides a dark blue. I would go for it if I were you. You only live once and it great to experiment while you can. I'm 35 now and although I don't feel too old to do these things, I just don't have the time or energy so I'm glad I did it while I was younger.
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10 Mar 17:35
Wow Xrenaxriotx that quick work getting your partners t-shirt refashioned. Everyone please don't feel rushed. I've deliberately given till late April to get refashioned t-shirts sent out as some of you are posting further afield than others and also it can take a while to get inspiration.
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08 Mar 19:42
Sorry to hear this :( take whatever time you need, just remember we are here if you need us x
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08 Mar 19:27
I'm following you too now :) If you want to follow me I'm at www.kitkatkatchat.blogspot.com
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08 Mar 19:27
I'm following you too now :) If you want to follow me I'm at www.kitkatkatchat.blogspot.com
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08 Mar 19:19
That sounds really nice violetta :) Happy Womens day everyone :)
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04 Mar 20:34
I so pleased you got them okay and you like them :)
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04 Mar 18:47
I wondered if the last one was a bit of all of them. I love them even more know I know the thinking behind them. I'm feeling a bit like you before tho, I'm not sure that mine measure up to others as I didn't put mine on a background :/
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04 Mar 15:50
cute stuff :)
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04 Mar 13:57
I got my inchies today and they are lovely. I love all the beads and the colours :)




I'm hoping you should get yours today too.
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03 Mar 22:41
I used to co-facilitate a craft group where I work (daycentre for adults with MH problems) and Origami went down quite well. We worked from a book in our local library and made flowers. I've also got quite a few tics and love crochet, I think its the simple rhythm that I find calming, probably a bit like you with knitting. I also asked a similar question about 6 months ago on the arty crafty section and there were some good suggestions on there. One was tapestry - even though the young man in my art group who I needed ideas for has now left he did get on with cross stitch quite well. I'd just recommend having some needle threaders on hand too if you're going to try anything involving needles. I get a terrible tremor some days and I can steady myself when I'm on my own but sometimes if I'm aware people are watching its really hard.
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03 Mar 22:27
Don't worry Kim I'll love them. Mine are also not as fancy but I just love the idea behind them and enjoyed making them. I also loved how cheap this was as a swap compared with some of the others I've done. I had all the materials and postage and packaging was so easy as I was justing posting to someone else in the UK :)
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02 Mar 21:52
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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02 Mar 21:47
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.
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01 Mar 21:41
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?
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01 Mar 14:00
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.
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28 Feb 21:11
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.
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27 Feb 18:35
This is my page but I haven't done much with it yet http://thriftygreenkat.ning.com/
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27 Feb 12:25
These are beautiful Ale & Debs :) I can imagine they would be really pretty on a handmade card like one for Mothers day :)
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27 Feb 12:19
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!
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26 Feb 22:31
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.
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26 Feb 19:04
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 :D Rah rah rah

Okay, Rant over. Thank you for listening :)
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