Just needed to be heard for a little while

Waves_and_Smiles

My favourite sci-fi book of all time is Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End. Not only is it an amazing story, without giving the plot away it totally refutes everything my mother told me about Hell and the Devil and paints a far nicer picture (having said that it is pure sci-fi, not religious at all). So I decided as a teenager that I was going to believe that instead (even though I knew it wasn't real).

Hahahahha! Aw, thank you, Pyxis! I actually consider myself to be genuinely quite boring compared to other people but I am well-read, books and learning were my haven for a long time. There just isn't much rhyme or reason to it, my interests are rather diverse! Funnily enough, whenever mental health workers ask me about my interests I can never think of any. I probably have more than I realise!

whitewing

It won't help tonight, but I have been using Zen Again teabags when I am winding down for the night, and they seem to help me a lot

http://www.clipperteashop.com/products/clipper-zen-again-20-bag

Hope your family gets better again quickly, haybel. Good luck with the appointment.

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

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Hahahahha! Aw, thank you, Pyxis! I actually consider myself to be genuinely quite boring compared to other people

Errm, No!

Not boring one iota!

How could you be, with everything you've done!L:):):)

Now, where's that autobiography!

dibuzz

Nice to have you back Haybel.

I have a large collection of Stephen King books too. I started to read them in my early teens and my eldest son read them at the same age, adding to the collection. Some of them are almost 40 years old

I'm afraid I can't join you all with Dr Who though, I'd rather watch paint dry

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahahaha! Funnily enough my teacher friend brought that up again a few days ago. He wants me to send him more of my teenager diaries for him to transcribe into something readable. The problem is the diaries need to be given some background so that people understand what is happening, along with some explanation of what came next as they stopped when I was 18. My teacher friend suggested an initial chapter to give context and then we publish the diaries just as they are because he feels that they are strong enough on their own. Then I write a follow up book about what happened next. He got virtually glared at through the monitor...

I love Stephen King, dibuzz! I have read The Stand so many times that I can almost recite parts of it.

haybel19

whitewing wrote: »

It won't help tonight, but I have been using Zen Again teabags when I am winding down for the night, and they seem to help me a lot

http://www.clipperteashop.com/products/clipper-zen-again-20-bag

Hope your family gets better again quickly, haybel. Good luck with the appointment.

Thank you. Ive been putting it off and putting it off for weeks... OH works nights and will phone the second they open for me otherwise i may just put it off again... i have as well as the anxiety/ocd PTSD caused by medical negligence so i really do try to avoid going. But i really am not switching off at all ever. I am constantly worrying and obssesing and stressing and frankly it is exhausting. I put myself under so much pressure all the time and that is pretty exhausting.... n fact i think exhausted would be a prettty good summary of how i have been feeling for last few months -just exhausted. But in a kind of low level way where i am managing perfectly well but it is just niggling in the background. Does that make sense?

whitewing

Perfect sense, haybel. We chug along merrily until one of us is poorly and then it all seems to go out of the window.

Are you taking a good vitamin pill or tonic daily? That can make a difference. It may be worth asking for blood tests. I feel a lot better now I've been taking iron tablets, and I would not have known I was anaemic - you expect to be tired with a young child.

jobbingmusician

Talking of chugging merrily along, have we heard from MU since her date? :eek:

And there's a few other people who have gone missing too, but I will report more fully on that subject in a couple of days....:D

whitewing

We heard her date was lovely!

seven-day-weekend

dibuzz wrote: »

Nice to have you back Haybel.

I have a large collection of Stephen King books too. I started to read them in my early teens and my eldest son read them at the same age, adding to the collection. Some of them are almost 40 years old

I'm afraid I can't join you all with Dr Who though, I'd rather watch paint dry

I'm afraid I can't join you all with Stephen King! I have read a couple of his books and whilst they are a good read and he writes well, for me the endings are always a flop. He either brings a character in out of nowhere, or nothing much happens. That's my experience anyway.

I do like Asimov though, and A C Clarke. Did you know there are more books about the Foundation Universe, other than the Trilogy, and they end up joining up with the Daneel Olivaw stories?

Dr Who? I can take it or leave it, although I did like the one where Billie Piper was the companion (was the Dr David Tennant? ) and I do like this new darker Capaldi one.

I'm a Coronation Street addict though. I've watched it since it started, with only a few breaks.