B has now been in hospital under a mental health section for about 4 and a half months! To be honest when she first went in I thought it would just be a couple of weeks at the absolute maximum. I didn’t expect to have to work things around Christmas to fit in with getting …
Things are tough at the moment. B’s medication was causing horrible side effects which were leading to her needing 20 hours sleep per day. Obviously this isn’t good, even more so because her intrusive thoughts then tell her even more how “bad” she is. Therefore, after speaking to her psychiatrist she stopped her antidepressants and …
We’ve always said we would just stick with the one child, it’s been a really hard few years and X’s birth was quite an experience! So obviously, we’ve now just had another baby! We were sat in the kitchen and B was upset and we were talking about how hard things have been and I …
Surviving a kids party can be hard! We went for another one at the weekend. I’m sure when I was a kid we’d just be dropped off and then picked up hours later as the host parents were just about ready to completely lose it! But as a parent of a 5 year old now, …
We had a great visit from some friends this weekend which made a really nice change. B and I both thought at the end of the day that we should do it more often, even though we were really quite knackered by the end. They are old friends of mine from University. D was on …
It would seem that yesterday I managed to reach 100 Facebook followers! It’s really great that so many people want to hear all about our little household and what we’ve been up to. Thank you all for your support, I really do hope you get something out of reading. We’ve had a varied run over …
A little over 5 years ago our son X was born. This was before B had been in a mental health hospital, before she’d started seeing the mental health team and before any suicide attempts. Technically our birth story started with B suddenly announcing when I was in the bath that perhaps we should have …
I’m currently working through a phased return to my job. Much as that might sound like a somewhere unsuccessful transporter trip in a Star Trek film it actually refers to the tail end of my sick leave from work. It basically means I currently only have to go in for half days, then I’ll go …
After taking a few weeks off work in order to deal with B having a bit of a downturn, I’m currently on a “Phased Return” to work. This means I am only working mornings and am trying to get rest/downtime whenever I can. Fellow parents will appreciate that this is never really easy regardless of …
A few weeks ago was B’s birthday, I’d been quite worried about what to get her and was leaving it all up to the last minute to be honest. Usually I cheat and just overbuy at Christmas and keep something back, but I cocked that up this year and gave her everything I’d brought, which …