We all need to be heard for a little while.

Waves_and_Smiles

Aww, big hugs to all that need them, it sounds like it has been a rough day. Hopefully things will be better when everyone wakes up tomorrow.

What a positive article, whitewing! I have had some very kind police officers look after me, the worse experience I had was one who on discovering I had mental illness began talking very slowly with exaggerated movements. I found it funny.

Where I used to live I used to turn up at the local police station a lot after getting lost while out, it was smack in the middle of the highstreet so I could always find it. Then there was J, the lovely officer who took me home after he found me sitting crying by a duck pond in my nightdress at 3am. He bought me coffee and sandwich first though and sat with me by the pond and chatted. He told me how he had had a couple of colleagues who had had breakdowns due to the pressure of the job and that he realised mental health problems could affect anyone. I met him a month later when I was feeling a lot better in a pub and he gave me a big hug and bought me a drink, he never mentioned how we had met to his friends or mine.

During an ambulance strike I needed to go to the hospital and the police were covering. A policewoman sat in the back with me and cuddled me all the way to the hospital and then waited with me until I was comfortable. I was very delirious at the time but I remember her arm around my shoulders the whole time.

Sadly not all police are as well trained as the ones I dealt with, some people have had not so nice experiences. But I found if I immediately said I had mental health problems that they would be as kind as they could be, one even drove me around the streets in a police car for 20 minutes before taking me home because I told him that it made me feel secure. He even put the flashy lights on for a few seconds because I wanted to experience it!

Or the one that was here when the previous tenant upstairs had tried to suicide and I babbled to him that it had really upset me because I knew how the man felt. He spent some time sitting with me to make sure I was ok before he left. All in all I have had very positive experiences with the police.

We go on holiday in 5 days, I may be too excited to sleep.

mellymoo74

Good you can keep me company.

Am going to ask the docs for valium I think.
I need to get calm and I can't manage it without help.

System

mellymoo74 wrote: »

Good you can keep me company.

Am going to ask the docs for valium I think.
I need to get calm and I can't manage it without help.

If you feel it will help, then ask them i don;t see the harm in using something short term, that will help.

That said i do miss my sleeping pills.....they're only for short term use i know but my old psych let me have them on repeat prescirption as me not sleeping for a few days generally triggers mania so weighing up the cost/benefits she felt it better to let me have it. However when i changed GP they refused to let me have it anymore.

I haven;t had my anti depressant for a few months (due to the fact i kept starting taking it then giving up cos of the side effects.) i currently have a banging headache and feel sick. But i'm going to try and stick it out this time...

edit: lol its times like this i get annoyed with people saying how people fake depression. i can't think of anyone who would willingly take the meds i take and tolerate the side effects unless they actually had to. i remember when i was on trazadone and every single time i took it, 15 mins later i'd be over the toilet retching. not pleasent.

Waves_and_Smiles

There is no harm in asking, melly. There is also other calming medication that you can try. I am sure if your doctor realises everything you have been through that they will understand why you need a bit of help.

Try to stick with anti-depressants if you can, MU. I find that I get awful side effects for the first week then they start to diminish. Now I get none at all. The first few days is awful, though.

mellymoo74

May go
Is coming back
Stupid head

System

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

There is no harm in asking, melly. There is also other calming medication that you can try. I am sure if your doctor realises everything you have been through that they will understand why you need a bit of help.

Try to stick with anti-depressants if you can, MU. I find that I get awful side effects for the first week then they start to diminish. Now I get none at all. The first few days is awful, though.

I'm going to try and stick it out as best i can, i need to keep telling myself the side effects will only last for a few weeks at most.

Hopefully it might see an improvement in my mood.

I would usually take them when i wake up but ended up taking them just before work today :eek: i did warn my manager i might be a bit spaced out: she was ok with it though (she's known me long enough to know i;ve had problems with prescriptions before)

Pyxis

xXMessedUpXx wrote: »

I;m ok, bar the fact my doctors decided to withold my prescription and didn;t bother to tell me, so when i went to pick it up from the pharmacy (as the online system told me to) it wasn't there, had 20 mins before i started work and no way of getting to the surgery so boots kindly (agter ringing the doctors again) gave me an emergency supply to get me through the bank holiday. Apparently i'm due a meds review (again, nobody told me),

MessedUp, whenever I need a meds review, it is usually written on the prescription counterfoil. Having said that, I did miss seeing it once, and only found out when I went to pick up the meds! Why the pharmacy can't tell you when their request to the doctor gets refused, I'll never know!

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

We go on holiday in 5 days, I may be too excited to sleep.

Well, you'd better try, WaS, otherwise you might find you spend the whole holiday in bed, spark out! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Georgiegirl256

*Sings* "Was is going on a Summer Holiday"! Not long now! :j

Reading the above post about the Police helping you WaS, just goes to show how lovely and kind people can be.

Georgiegirl256

Talking of medication, I took two of mine (anti seizure medication) by mistake last night, and now I'm feeling really spaced out.

I had a strip in my bag with one last tablet, which I took, so went to get some more to take up to bed for the morning. Because the pharmacy only give me a months worth (for years I got 3 months worth) now, they quite often come in odd strip denominations, and this one was just 2 on their own, so I thought I'd use them up first. Then for some reason I'd forgot I'd already taken one and took another, and then wondered why I felt so groggy, put it down to having cold, and then realised just before bed.

I've decided I'm best not taking another one until tonight (take them twice a day).

The pharmacy is always messing my prescription up, you just know it's never going to be straight forward when you go to collect them.

tea_lover

My uterus is trying to kill me. I think it may succeed.