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

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahahaha! I want one, Pyxis!

Morning all! She says at 6pm, I wish I could transfer some of my sleepiness to you, sue! I am clinging to the fact it should start to get better now as we reduce the medication. WaSp asked me who I was when I got up, he has forgotten what I look like.

Hugs to the poorlies and the people doing scary things! You can do it! It also gives me a chance to post my favourite meme that I have stuck on my wall-

calleyw

WaS, have a wave from me.

Thought you might like this



A sloth handbag. Price £250 :eek:

Yours

Calley

Waves_and_Smiles

Oh, Calley! That is adorable! I am ignoring the price but I so want one!

calleyw

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Oh, Calley! That is adorable! I am ignoring the price but I so want one!

thought you would like it

Yours

Calley

Waves_and_Smiles

In other news, I need some advice from you all, please. I have been offered a little voluntary job. The psychology department at my american friends university is setting up an online crisis line with a mental health charity and they want it to be international so they have asked those involved to look for people in other countries who might be willing to take part, she asked me if I would consider it.

It isn't counselling as such, the idea is clients will be given links to resources that can help them, so there is a little reassurance and listening at first but then staff would pass people onto other agencies once they are sure that they are ok for now.

The commitment is 4 hours a week (choose your own hours) for 14 months, the training is free (it would normally cost $250). The training period is 10 hours a week for four weeks which is a bit of a commitment from me but it can be done anytime. They have no problem with people who have mental health problems as long as you are now relatively stable (am I stable?) and have a preference for people already experienced in mental heath care. There is supervision offered for the staff if one is having difficulties or needs back up.

I don't know what to do. On the one hand the thought is terrifying, on the other I think I really want to do it because I really want to help people and at only 4 hours a week I should be able to manage it plus I have experience as a client and as a therapist so I should hopefully be useful. It is the first time I have thought seriously about working in over 10 years, I can't quite believe I am considering it.

tea_lover

Ate you able to ask your psychiatrist WaS? It sounds like something you'd be amazing at, but it's also OK to put yourself and your health first and say it's not for you right now.

Do you think you have a preference one way at the moment? Or is it total confusion lol?

onomatopoeia99

Costco have creme eggs for sale in a bulk pack that work out at 30p each. One somehow found its way into my trolley earlier One pack, I mean, not one egg.

Also, I need to stay away from bookshops. "Popped in" to Waterstones after buying a birthday present for my dad and somehow walked out with four more books. The travel guide for Rome I can justify buying, the three novels, not so much!

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahaha! I have already eaten a pack of creme eggs this year, ono!

I will ask him tea, although I am almost certain that he will think that is a wonderful idea because he keeps talking about "My need to be needed" and how I seem to do much better when I feel like I am doing something useful. I think I want to do it, the only thing making me hesitate is that there is a 14 month commitment after the training. On the other hand it is only 4 hours a week and I can choose when those 4 hours are so it should be manageable really.

onomatopoeia99

WaS, I find some of the things you write on here inspirational, and based on only knowing you from what you write it sounds like something you could be really good at, but you have to think of your own wellbeing first and perhaps it would be better to seek a professional opinion on how doing it could affect you, like tea suggested while I was writing about chocolate, rather than / in addition to from us, who are well-meaning but amateur.

One thing to be careful of is not to spread yourself too thin, even though it's only four hours. This is a piece of advice I am terrible at taking when given to me, as I have a bad habit of accepting roles that I struggle to find time for as I don't want to let people down, so feel something of a hypocrite giving it myself, but I know the trap one can fall into volunteering for things!

Waves_and_Smiles

Aw, thank you, ono. Yes, I will check with my psychiatrist and my GP first before I make any kind of commitment, luckily it is still in its early stages so they will not be setting up the training programme for a few months. I have plenty of time to decide. As long as it stays at 4 hours a week I can likely manage it, I would need to be sure that those hours wouldn't increase because I know I can't cope with anything more pressurising than that. On the positive side I do have the experience of working in crisis intervention and I know how it feels from a clients perspective so it should feel quite familiar to me.

I didn't expect to be contemplating this today!