Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

codemonkey

Taken the first step towards snogging? :beer:

Georgiegirl256

codemonkey wrote: »

50%. Brian and Sal. Although I think Joe has a really nice smile.

It's actually worth a watch. I usually don't like practical joke shows but this works because it's them messing with each other, rather than unsuspecting people.

Strange I've never heard if it as I like them kind of shows. Will have to check it out.

I used to watch Red Dwarf and Brittas Empire all the time tea.

Ooo pof, scary, but exciting! :T

Waves_and_Smiles

Chris Barrie is mine! So is Alan Rickman before anyone grabs him, too!

Fell asleep at 5pm, woke up at 2am, this is really peeing me off. I am going to email my GP and my psychiatrist because I can't go on like this. This has been happening since the last slight relapse I had, I simply cannot stay awake for more than a few hours and if I do the auditory hallucinations become much worse. I haven't managed dinner for 3 days because I am not awake for long enough, it is really limiting my functioning. I am averaging 17 hours sleep a day. What is even more annoying is sleepiness aside I am really stable and don't feel unwell at all, as long as I sleep immediately at the first yawn.

A lovely colleague of my lovely Oxford professor (this one is a professor at London uni) emailed me and said they would be interested in using me for research. There are ethical implications which means we have to think about it carefully first. Not least that it is important that I receive support while it is ongoing and that there is a clear contract stating what is expected of both myself and the university. It is possible but they have to be very careful when using people with severe mental health problems as subjects. So he will get back to me on the best way that this could work. There is also the question of expenses because I would have any travel refunded plus apparently a payment for me is possible so he needs to look at the department funding for that, too. I would do it for free and pay my own expenses!

He is also going to ask another colleague who deals with sleep disorders and abnormal psychology if he has any answers as to why I can't stay awake. Both professors have agreed that it is very interesting and fascinating (yay?) and they do believe the sleeping is connected to psychosis, particularly as it started 2 weeks before the relapse. They just aren't sure what is happening yet but they are sure that someone they know will be able to explain it.

I am really excited about this now, I would love to think that I am making a difference and helping others. If I can learn something about my own conditions in the process that is a huge bonus.

I have the spider story saved Pyxis, thank you! I shall read it to Harold later! Harold is my pet spider who lives in the corner, he is only little but I love him.

Georgie, have a hug. WaSp always wants to fix me so we tend to be very practical when I am upset/unwell now and discuss it in terms of my conditions rather than emotionally. I don't tend to show WaSp if I am upset because he gets upset, then he gets angry with the world because he can't fix me which makes me more upset and we get stuck in a loop. WaSp does far better with things like bringing me tea or making me a sandwich, give him something practical to do and he is wonderful.

Getting people to feel festive? Where do you want me to start, I'm your girl!! I know this is a bad/difficult time of year for a lot of people so I don't tend to mention the season much but it is my favourite time of year by far. I bounce around like a 5 year old and get ridiculously excited over everything. I am watching christmas films everyday, even the ringtones of the phones have been changed to christmas songs.

My christmas bells on a ribbon arrived today and are now up on the door. I am ringing them everytime I walk past so that an angel gets their wings, WaSp tells me that the true meaning is that everytime they ring Santa fires an elf. I am ignoring him.

I already have 3 sets of lights up with another set to go on the tree when I finally decorate it, I have tinsel to go everywhere, loads of ornaments and shiny things! Santa's Grotto is an understatement by the time I've finished. This is my third day of making paper chains and I am filling my own crackers for us. I am making my Christmas Cake this week (if I am actually awake long enough), then I have WaSp's stocking to make up. The poor man has been told he is making me a stocking this year and is utterly lost at finding fillers (whitewing? Bit of help for WaSp please?).

Believe me, I have enough christmas spirit for everyone! I shall also sit up watching Norad tracks Santa until he arrives in the UK and then I shall cry happy tears, I do every year. I am driving WaSp insane, I manage to get the word Christmas into just about every sentence. He hates the whole thing but has learnt to tolerate me over the years!

*skips off singing Jingle Bells*.

Pyxis

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10th December

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIlf3q0G7o

Waves_and_Smiles

Aw, that was adorable, Pyxis!

Pyxis

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

My christmas bells on a ribbon arrived today and are now up on the door. I am ringing them everytime I walk past so that an angel gets their wings, WaSp tells me that the true meaning is that everytime they ring Santa fires an elf. I am ignoring him.
*skips off singing Jingle Bells*..

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
WaS you crack me up!

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

There is also the question of expenses because I would have any travel refunded plus apparently a payment for me is possible so he needs to look at the department funding for that, too. .

Yes, you will definitely get expenses at least. They may even fund you taxis to get there and back, given that you can't go by public transport.
I once did some research for a University medical research department, and I got travel expenses, plus at the end of the cycle I got something like £120, although I would have done it just for the expenses.
The only research I wasn't refunded any expenses was the NHS UKTOCS 10-year nationwide research into Ovarian Cancer, where every year I went to the hospital concerned to have a scan.
I was very pleased because there were three groups, one having ovarian scans, one having blood tests, and one just a control group.........I was picked for the scan group. They scanned to see if there were any changes in the ovaries....enlargement etc. ...which may have indicated the early signs. (The research was to find out if any early screening tests, scans or blood tests, would pick up and therefore reduce the incidence of ovarian cancer).
I really didn't care that there were no expenses paid.....as far as I was concerned, I was getting a free test to detect any early signs of ovarian cancer. I'd have paid to have those every year!
The research finished last year
The results should be out soon!

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

I am really excited about this now, I would love to think that I am making a difference and helping others.

Now, now, WaS! Go and sit on the naughty step. And recite 1,000,000 times "I, WaS, am making a HUGE difference by starting and continuing these threads, within which I have helped LOADS and LOADS of people, hoverers and posters alike!" And you can't get off the step until you've convinced yourself of that!

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahaha! awww ok, I am glad that I originally started these threads so that everyone here could be so wonderful at supporting each other and because we all have become such good friends. Does that work?

What a useful study to get onto, Pyxis! Years ago I took part in a programme where junior psychiatrists had to interview me and guess my diagnosis, that was lots of fun! They did pay my expenses and £35 on top for each day. The concern this time seems to be largely that I stay healthy if I am to be a subject and do not become triggered. Plus I am also sure that the university wants to make sure that I won't sue them should it happen. I shall let them sort out the red tape but they don't really need to worry, as everyone knows I can discuss psychosis until the cows come home without batting an eyelid. Expenses are nice but not necessary, I just want to help.

Pyxis

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

Taking it home is no problem, I didn't ask but they knew there was a possibility that I wouldn't be able to drive if I took one of the pills so put two and two together, and I emailed in early to let them know.

Erm.......if you had the work computer, how did they get the email? :D:D:rotfl:

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

There was a show on he did about toys and on that him and his mates and all the wives and girlfriends got together at his house. The women all drank wine and talked, and the men all played with toys, train sets I think!

Oooh! I'd much rather play with train sets than sit and drink wine! :)
Really! I promise you!





I don't have cable or Sky so have no idea what those programmes are like!

seven-day-weekend

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't been here for ages, haven't caught up on the thread yet but hope everyone is OK.

We are all foiling, including my husband and son, both of whom seem to have recovered Frome their mental health 'wobbles'. Husband has been given some vitamin D supplement on prescription, he has had it before in the winter, it helps him with the SADS.

We have been busy selling our house and I have got anxious about it (!) However the sale completes today so I won't have to worry about it any more.

I'm not a terribly Christmas-y person but we do have some lights up in the window and will get a tree nearer the time.

Hope to be on here a bit more after Christmas. xx

seven-day-weekend

Hi all, sorry I have not been on here for ages, we have been selling our house and have been working hard clearing it out. The sale completes today so I won't have to worry about it any more.

Hope everyone is OK, I haven't caught up with the thread yet.

We are OK, both my husband and my son seem to have got over their mental health 'wobbles'. My husband has been given some vitamin D on prescription, it really helps his SAD in the winter. Son was a lot better after some problems at work were resolved.

I am going away for New Year, so hope to be on here again regularly in early 2016.