Just needed to be heard for a little while

Pyxis

Thanks, Dibuzz and Oldestgnome. Using the quote thing works a treat! What an interesting technique that 'hiding' thing is! How did you do it in the first place, Jobbingmusician? Weirderoonie!!

(Haha! When I first typed in weirderoonie, the not so smart spellchecker changed it to 'Weirder ozonise'! Is ozonise even a word?:rotfl:)




Edit. Yes, FYI ozonise is to treat with ozone, or to convert oxygen into ozone. So now you know!

dibuzz

Predictive text makes me laugh at times, someone sent me a cute photo and I tried to reply "aww" which came out as "Byzantine" and I didn't notice till I'd sent it :rotfl:

Pyxis

dibuzz wrote: »

Predictive text makes me laugh at times, someone sent me a cute photo and I tried to reply "aww" which came out as "Byzantine" and I didn't notice till I'd sent it :rotfl:

:rotfl: 'Byzantine' from 'aww'? That is awwsome!

Perhaps we should start a 'Funny Predictive Texts' thread!:D

lostinrates

Pyxis wrote: »

:rotfl: 'Byzantine' from 'aww'? That is awwsome!

Perhaps we should start a 'Funny Predictive Texts' thread!:D

There is a site called damn you auto correct or dyac. Someone on Mse linked to it. I laughed till I cried. ( some are rather rude)

Pyxis

lostinrates wrote: »

There is a site called damn you auto correct or dyac. Someone on Mse linked to it. I laughed till I cried. ( some are rather rude)

Oh dear! Just been there! Am crying now! So funny! :rotfl:

( Pyxis Health Warning: Do not visit the Dyac site if you think you may need the loo in the next 5 minutes! :rotfl: :rotfl:)

jobbingmusician

It's easy to do the text thing - you just type whatever you want to, and then change the colour to white. If you don't want to bother with the quote thing, you can just highlight it and it changes to negative IYSWIM. I've seen it used on tinternet before, for spoilers. I'm hoping to be able to use a computer at work today to solve the problem so that WaS will know what it's all about!

Yes, I love DYAC. Another site you might all like which is a post-loo site is texts from dog. I would start with http://www.boredpanda.com/texts-from-dogs/ rather than the actual site, as the actual site has the latest ones first, which I think aren't as funny unless you already understand the genre The early ones make me curl up!!!!

elsien

"I'm stuck in batshit crazy mode.":rotfl: I think I may own that dog.

Pyxis

:rotfl:Thanks JM. Will check that site out!

Re the highlighting, I don't think you can highlight with a iPad. At least, I can't. If you tap on it, you just get a copy option. But the quote thing works well. Just need to remember not to post the quote! (Or would it still be posted in white anyway? Oh no, prob not, 'cos the quotes come up with a green background, don't they! Tell you what, I'll have a go with something innocuous and report back!!)




Edit. Yes, I tried it on a another thread. You can't post the quote accidentally, because you need to type something in as well. However, if it IS posted, it comes up as white words on a green background, albeit very faint. I had to enlarge the screen to really be able to read it! What a good trick, though! Gosh, the things you learn on this thread!
Thank you WaS! You didn't know you'd started an IT class, did you!

Waves_and_Smiles

Morning everyone! Now I have had 2 hours sleep and I am wide awake to the point where I was developing headache trying to stay in bed. My sleep pattern makes no sense at all. Everyone has been busy! I shall attempt to reply, this could be the longest post yet.

Aw, how sweet of people to be concerned that they might be making do things that I don't want to do. Don't worry, apart from telling me that I am horrible it is almost impossible to say the wrong thing to me. I always try wherever possible to give any suggestions a go, I have always tried things without dismissing them first. If something doesn't work for me I will say so but I am not the sort of person who thinks that I immediately can't do something, I will attempt most things people mention. It's one reason why I think I have been able to live independently, anytime my doctors have suggested something new I have given it a try and it has given me lots of different techniques.
If I try something and it doesn't work for me I will post that, do remember also that I need a lot of prompting to do things. I actually need people to tell me to try something or I will continue staring at the walls whilst relaxing in the inner world. It is extremely important that I function whether I want to or not due to the catatonia risk so having little tasks I need to complete is a way for me to stay healthy.

As far as contacting me or my partner goes if something happened, I am more than happy for that to happen! that means so much that people care. By all means if someone wishes to let me know a way they could be contacted I will pass that over to my partner. I won't pick who though because that goes back to me leaving people out and abandoning them so please decide amongst yourselves. There you go, relating to the paragraph above I said I can't do something, picking one person or thing over another equals days of guilt.

The tv I unplugged after a psychotic episode a while back when I thought the people on it were speaking to me directly. However, I have been thinking of plugging it back in so that my partner can watch the Grand Prix on a big screen, I can watch things with the sound off and so that I am not paying a tv licence every year just for my partner to watch around 24 hours of live streaming! I have been thinking of asking my partner to set it up again for a while as I do miss glancing at it and as long as I remember to turn it off if I am psychotic it should be fine.

Haybel, Designing for Create and Craft?! I am in awe! That was my go to channel when I watched tv and where I learnt card-making techniques! I would watch it for hours and found it very soothing and I knew nothing bad would suddenly appear on the screen. My cards never look half as good as theirs, though!

I live around 2 hours from the sea, whitewing. Fortunately the journey involves mostly motorways, I feel safer on those because cars can't actually stop and people have no time to stare at me.

That was a wonderful article! It is hard to know why some people develop Schizophrenia and some don't. There is a definite genetic link and environmental factors play a big part in triggering it. I was always prepositioned towards it due to my mother but it is possible it wouldn't have developed if I hadn't had the difficult past to contend with, too. In my case as I have said, I developed psychosis and after the first break I developed 4 autoimmune disorders all within the same year. To me that says something became broken because it seems too much of a coincidence. I would guess a huge chemical imbalance which affected different areas of my body. During a bad bout of psychosis my autoimmune disorders will flare, too. Now whether that is due to stress or a biochemical reaction in general no one knows.

Unfortunately mental health gets very little funding so it takes a very long time for new discoveries to be made. Since I have been diagnosed I have been told it is a condition, an illness, a genetic malformation, a disease and the latest is a form of brain damage. No one knows for sure and you can only look for evidence in the brain structure after some dies which doesn't help. I would willingly allow doctors to study me if it helped them understand more, the problem is, as I said there is little funding.

I loved the Dog texts! I must find more!

Nice to see you, dibuzz! I missed you!

lostinrates

Ok, well I propose jobbing Musisian. Board guide and all.