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Flybaby

had to laugh when I turned on the TV - it popped up on an episode of "How its made" on.... you guessed it.......... toilet paper!

calleyw

Flybaby wrote: »

had to laugh when I turned on the TV - it popped up on an episode of "How its made" on.... you guessed it.......... toilet paper!

I live on my own and seem to get through loads of TP :rotfl:

Yours

Calley

elsien

While on the subject of capacity, does anyone have an opinion on this one? A debate I was having with someone today.

You are in hospital under section. You are ready for discharge but can't leave because you are lacking capacity (ld, dementia, whatever the reason is) and waiting for a decision on a change of accommodation. Either way if you try to leave you will be stopped for your own safety. Do you think you have more rights/what would you personally prefer - if you stay in under the Mental Health Act, or go with the (on the face of it) less restrictive Mental Capacity Act, stay as an informal patient and have a Deprivation of Liberty slapped on you instead?

dragonette

Re: TP - when my IBS is bad, I try to get in some wet/moist TP wipes (making sure they are flushable!). Saves me going through a mountain of TP and is much nicer to the skin. Too expensive and wasteful for me to use all the time tho.

Just spent ages prepping food, I get my groceries delivered as my mobility prevents me from doing much shopping, and the sweet chilli chicken thighs I got needed de-boned Will be much more careful in future!

Calley The reason I asked about the diagnosis was that I am fighting atm to get some things formally diagnosed. If I have the diagnosis I can get referred for different types of help, and have more to put on my welfare forms than 'most days I struggle with fatigue and cant wash/dress myself' etc etc.

OTOH, some ppl hate the label of diagnosis. I tend to feel guilty for being ill because my brain tells me that if I really was ill, the drs would diagnose it. So it really depends what you want out of it.

mellymoo74

My family are schizophrenic (mother side)
I was told repeatedly that I am either very up or very down I am not bipolar I don't think.

The reason for mentioning the schizophrenia is there is the stage before where you think on too many levels and hear voices but are aware they are your thoughts this is me

Removed - TMI

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahaha! there would be a toilet paper programme right on cue!

I also have voices like that, melly. There are the bad voices which say horrid things and I don't know what they will say next, the dissociative voices where I see the people in my mind as they speak. I also have no idea what they will say but they are seldom angry or taunting and are just ordinary people of all ages who live in an inner world. There is also a middle ground where there are voices which I know are coming from me. I can debate about things that I need to decide with these voices and they give me comfort or ideas about what to do. I am aware that they are coming from what is me. Then there is the recorder who very quietly narrates everything I do and who is present all the time. She just said "WaS types and explains that the one who records narrates all of the time". It is never quiet in here!

Not that all of the voices aren't coming from me of course, but some are more predictable and feel more like me than others. It is why I find sound very difficult, it feels like I constantly have a radio or tv on in my mind and sometimes I have to strain to hear 'the real world' over it. Silence is best for me because extra noise doesn't drown the voices out, it just turns everything into crowd sounds with many different noises happening all at once which can feel horrible. I am very used to it though, I have had the MPD voices for as long as I can remember so I grew up with them and their inner world.

mellymoo74

My conversation with people used to be very difficult for them to follow.

They are conversing perhaps thinking about 3 or so other things, I am conversing and relating it back to several other conversations had with that person whilst thinking about 20 or so other things.

I have got better at controlling it and as I said I know it's me, mother, her mother, her brother and he sister don't.
Her brother is scary and made inappropriate advances.

Georgiegirl256

mellymoo74 wrote: »

Acid actually helped as does the occasional weekend head filing

Acid? Head filing? sorry Melly, don't understand?! :huh:

mellymoo74

Edited TMI

Head filing is how I describe sitting down with my imaginary brain filing cabinet and sort my thoughts out.

Waves_and_Smiles

I understand how that goes, melly. Although (I hope!) I am literate on here, verbally talking is much harder for me. I stumble over words, miss out bits of conversation, forget the words I am looking for and have to concentrate quite hard because there are all of these other random thoughts and voices in the background. The only way I can describe it is like trying to stand still while being jostled in all directions. It isn't that I don't know what I want to say, it is that there is so much distraction inside of my mind. I usually cannot manage more than an hour at the most in a social situation without needing to have a break because it is so exhausting and eventually I will just become completely confused. My teacher friend was very good with that when we visited, he would talk to me for 30 minutes and then tell me to have a wander around the garden for 15 minutes alone while he did something else. It was just enough time to sort my thoughts out and have a rest before attempting to speak again.

Thank you for being honest about the mind noise melly, I relate to it and really appreciate it.