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 …
October 19th B is at hospital (A&E), she was very bad mentally last night, very distressed, visibly talking with the intrusive thoughts in her head and scared of what “they” were saying. The mental health team are going to assess her this morning to see if she needs to be sectioned again and have a …
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 …
I thought I’d write an email to the Community Mental Health Team who’s care B is under to get over my thoughts regarding how it’s going with B at the moment. Here it is in it’s entirety. Most days at the moment I have to talk B out of thinking that the Angels (Or the universe) …
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 …
B’s mental health problems do tend to go up and down. Sometimes she can seem absolutely fine, and other times she seems completely lost in her mind. Times when it’s hard can vary massively, it would seem that “Time flies when you’re having fun” isn’t as straightforward a description as it might appear as from …
B and I have just been talking about our kitchen and what it’s lacking. It started with B looking at doing a load of washing up, unfortunately this particular load contained some of the of the following which have been sat there for at least a day, if not quite a few! Ready Break Shreddies …
B has managed to finish setting up the website for her new venture! It’s called Cards For Trees, it’s an online card shop where 50% of profits will go to tree planting programmes. B has always wanted to contribute to the income in our house but has always found it difficult because of her mental …
So, Christmas 2018 has been and gone. I’m happy to report that we’ve all had a good one, even R. To be honest Christmas does bring lots of going out, interacting with people, and breaks to routine. These can be tricky for lots of people, especially when mental health issues are around, but although I …
This week was the week of X’s school nativity, it was all of his year (Reception) plus years 1 and 2. Collectively, years 1 and 2 are apparently now known as “Key Stage One”, I’m feeling myself sounding old at times like this when I say “Oh, you mean infants?”. To be completely honest, I’ve …