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 …
(Trigger warning Self Harm and Suicide.) I am currently “Locked” in my own head. In my head I say things like I just want to be able to “Slap myself”, ”Sort it out” or “Pull myself together”. I know they are not useful phrases, I know they are not helpful, I know it’s not as …
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 …
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 …
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 …
B wasn’t too good on Friday, she rang me at work at about 10:30 and I ended up going home because she needed some extra support. I’d just emailed the office to tell them about the sweets and biscuits I’d brought in for everyone, so sadly had to leave them there! ( When I did …
The first thing you need to remember if you discover someone you care about has self harmed is not to panic! I can’t tell you about everybody’s self harm, or what it means for that person, I can just tell you what I have learned over the last few years. I had no knowledge of …
We had another milestone today to follow on from the one yesterday. B managed her first walk in to take X to school on her own! She’s walked in together with me to take X into school most days since he started in September but has never managed it on her own. In fact, after …
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to accompany a 4 year old and someone with anxiety to a (probably packed) Christmas Fayre… Cue music! The school Christmas Fayre has been looming for a while to be honest. Sometimes B has been keen on going, sometimes she’s said she wont be able to …