Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

Well done, elsien! Are you able to move now?

I hope you had a lovely day, MU!

Hahahahahaha, challenge accepted JM! I shall add the gingerbread men mix to my next order! I am going to need really explicit instructions for that or I will never manage it! They sound really yummy by the ingredients, though and I do love ginger!

Waves_and_Smiles

Aw, good luck LIR. Keeping everything crossed for you.

My psychiatrist is very good in that the usual procedure is to take 10 minutes between patients to read through their notes and remind themselves of the cases. Mine calls me in as soon as the last patient has left so it is less time waiting and so that I have 10 minutes in his office to compose myself before I have to talk. Usually, I am visibly shaking and struggling to breathe just on the horror of the journey so we have both found that giving me 10 minutes in silence while he reads works best.

I am not expecting any complications other than the Bipolar questions again. The last few times he and my consultant psychiatrist have been asking a lot about symptoms of that, I think they are suspicious and last time Schizo-affective disorder was mentioned (a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar). Not that I particularly mind if they wish to diagnose me with Bipolar as well (it doesn't really change my life) but I shall throw things if they mention changing my medication. It took 10 years of much suffering for us to find this balance and I certainly don't want to go through it again, while we were trying I was completely unstable. Plus the last attempt at changing anything led to incontinence and the woman on the bus incident which is why I am so reluctant!

lostinrates

Can you ask straight out if that's a concern WaS?

I think my experience will be FAR less draining than yours

Waves_and_Smiles

I was thinking that, LIR. Rather than being asked the same repeated questions for the 5th time it will just be easier to ask if they suspect schizo-affective disorder. As long as the medication stays the same it really makes no difference to me, it is just another label but they might stop questioning me on it. It's amusing because they throw in questions about mood swings, mania and delusions of grandeur into the general questions, I always feel like reminding them that I have a psychology degree and I know exactly what they are questioning!

They might be correct but it is very hard to tell because I am already so heavily medicated. I get angry about twice a year for example due to the anti-psychotics keeping me very calm. Before those I would have 10 minutes burst of ferocious rage when I would hurt myself and throw things and have no idea why I had done it afterwards. Also, I would be bursting with joy so that I almost felt dizzy and unable to sit still, wanting to leap around the room and dance and shout with sheer happiness which at the same time scared me a lot because it felt out of control. My depression was far, far worse too. I do know that these could be symptoms of bipolar but the current medication numbs all of that into making me an extremely laid back person so it is hard to figure out what my real symptoms are. Bipolar came up back then too, but I was having such a terrible time with schizophrenia symptoms that we didn't pause for breath and medicated me as quickly as possible so it got a bit overlooked. I don't think that they are considering it but there is no way I am coming off of any medication for them to look for symptoms either, unlike a lot of people with psychosis I am firmly attached to my drugs!

whitewing

You may well spend your appointment telling him about all the things you've done since you last saw him!

Some blighter of a pretend customer appears to have come into work and stolen my mobile phone. We have looked everywhere and can't find it. I've had it barred but I really hope it turns up. I am chilled out because there's nothing we can do, but DH is very upset.

jobbingmusician

I really wouldn't worry about diagnosis, WaS. Diags are soooo imprecise - mental illness is just totally different from person to person! Surely the important thing is your quality of life and how well you are doing on the meds (And you are doing brilliantly, I'm sure the psychiatrist will be delighted!)

soooo sorry to hear about the phone, WW I lost one (left it in a bookie's shop while match betting and of course it had gone when I went back) - bizarrely I got it back! Someone claimed to have found it, and rang the most frequently rung number - which turned out to be my Chairman (how sad is THAT!) I went to pick it up at a petrol station.

I had of course bought a replacement in the mean time - the good news is that the replacement = EXACTLY the same model - is a far far better phone.

Waves_and_Smiles

So sorry to hear about the phone, whitewing. How annoying! I hope that it wasn't an expensive one or at least if it was that it was insured. I have a very basic mobile, I really don't need a complicated one as it hardly ever leaves the house and I don't make phone calls! It is handy for texting WaSp and occasionally using the internet, though.

I have reached a point where I find the diagnoses amusing, JM! One thing I do want to do on Friday is ask what I am actually diagnosed with. There are so many now that I forget them and the last time it cropped up when my doctor wrote a letter for ESA there were two that I didn't even know I had! I always panic when I have to write them down on forms because there are so many it looks like I have plucked them randomly off of Google, I am also still not convinced that I have everything that they say I have, a lot of them could be combinations of other disorders.

Pyxis

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Good evening all!

WaSp rebooked my eye appointment so I am waiting to find out when the new one is. I still have the psychiatrist on Friday so excuse me if I start to panic. Not about seeing him, he is lovely but the whole getting there thing. Blanket time!

Has Pugliet got his blanket yet? He can't go with you if he's blanketless!
(Oh dear, am seeing his little blanket-covered shape in my mind's eye again; am getting the giggles! His little blanket-shape is SOOOO sweet!)

Waves_and_Smiles

He doesn't have one yet, Pyxis! I may have to let him hide at home (I love the image of a pug shaped blanket).

haybel19

I would love to get into match betting JobbingMusician but i have a stumbling block- I think i might actually need some money first !!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sorry to hear about your phone Whitewing.