Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

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tiny penguin
As of this month i am 2 years self harm free. This time last year i got my butterfly tattoo to celebrate (i told myself if i ever made it to a year i'd get that tattoo). Planning on getting another to mark 2 years. This is longest i have gone without since age 12 when i started.

For me it was partly due to the butterfly project, the idea being you dra a butterfly where you usually self harm, if you the butterfly dies but if you don't it lives. sounds weird i know but it helped me many times. i decided to get a permanent version as it had helped me in the past. Also for me the butterfly is a symbol of transformation. From something ugly comes something beautiful, from despair comes hope. I've had many urges but when i get them i look at that tattoo. And i stop myself.

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Torry_Quine

Messed Up, well done you.

calleyw

MU,

well done :beer:
Sounds like a plan. I hope you have many more butterflies

take care

Yours

Calley X

onomatopoeia99

codemonkey wrote: »

Oh my goodness. I have a muppet. Mr CP had a muppet style puppet made to look like me. :j

That's awesome


MU, well done on two years. A friend has had a semi-colon and a heart done in her equivalent place, as a committment to stop, so she sees it and it makes her think again, or pick up the phone and call the Samaritins. Has only been a month or so for her and she has struggled, but so far it is working.

Pyxis

codemonkey wrote: »

Oh my goodness. I have a muppet. Mr CP had a muppet style puppet made to look like me. :j

Does that mean we can call you a muppet now? :rotfl:
:A

Only joking!

Do describe it! :j

Pyxis

There's an interesting article here on how the parasite Toxoplasma gondii (the one that gives you toxoplasmosis) can alter behaviour and possibly personality and suicide tendencies in humans........


https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/toxoplasmas-dark-side-the-link-between-parasite-and-suicide/



The parasite can only propagate itself in the gut of cats, so if it gets into a non-cat, it has an effect on that other host intended to steer it towards being eaten by a cat.
For example, if the parasite is in a rat, it makes the rat's brain less fearful of cats or even sexually aroused by the smell of a cat, and so is far more likely to be eaten by a cat!

The effects on humans are more subtle!

Izadora

Code, your muppet sounds amazing and I now really want one!!

MU, massive congratulations and I hope that in years to come you run out of space for more butterfly tattoos.

Pyxis

Did you know that Wasserschildkröte, translated literally, means water-shield-toad?
Tortoise is Schildkröte, so shield-toad.

Sweee!

calleyw

Morning my lovelies,

Hugs and handshakes and squishes all round.

Well doggy walked, washing out. Managed to drop my laptop twice this morning. But still working. Hotwater bottle that I was using for my back leaked. So I am now wet through to my pants :rotfl:so sat on the sofa wrapped in fleece blanket.

Think I will stay in today. Action man not back until this evening so just me and doggy all day.

Hope everyone takes cares and have a nice day no matter what you do.

Your

Calley X

Gingernutty

I found a job online I can apply for. In the same organisation I currently work for, IN THE DEPARTMENT I WANT TO WORK FOR!!!!! :j

Guess what I'll be doing tonight at work?

I've also got an interview for a part time temporary position on Tuesday.

I've been looking up dates of employment and now I'm off to bed.

I feel strangely excited....