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Sabrina, hey how you doingApril sounds like you may have found meds that actually help you. sorry your still strugling with food stuff though.hope your doing ok xx
unfortuantly juggling was one sport/talent that i was never any good at :'(
How are you doing?? I'll try to catch you on FB soon!! I wish there was something I could do to help... 
I'm so sick of this.s to all.
evryone, how you all doing???
Bec good to hear from you not great, really struggling with things at the minute. my appointments with CPN n dietician didnt go too well. crisis team arent being helpful and im just not sure what to do. April, sarah, everyone else hope your all doing ok xxx
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today I am -(((((Lady Bug))))))
You're not barging in, it's good to see you.
Hope you are having a better day today sweetie.
*Steffi makes fresh coffee and hot chocolate for everyone in the room and sits down to catch up with Arnold.
How is everyone doing? What's the best thing that happened today? (I got to see my dog with a citronella colar on...it was the most amazing experience ever
Hey Bec
. I'm doing well...I'm still at uni with social work and otherwise working when I can . How are you doing? Are you still studying?
That sucks. How are you doing? what are you filling your days with? The lady at the yarn shop was really nice and funny and glad to help my mum and me with our scarves (since she was the one who taught us, she better be glad to help, haha). He was sleeping on my lap a little bit ago. I'm not sure if you all have seen the newer photo of him I put in my profile pic place. Check it out if you have the time... he looks stoned in it but that's just kitty sleepy happy time. s for all.
id contacted the crisis team over the weekend but not got much help from them, alhough i told them how bad i was feeling and how scary my thoughts were getting and that i was starting to struggle with thoughts of hurting other people which sint me and really scared me. i was really struggling with my psychotic symptoms. i was a mess and feeling really really unstable but did they help.... no. my foster sister had to pretty much much babysit me on the sunday night, even that didnt help i ended up getting up at like 3am getting dressed and trying to get out of her flat (which woke her up.) monday during the day i was really unsettled and by late afternoon i wasnt feeling too with it. but then i went really flat, but seemed okish. i went back to my flat after convincing my sister i would be ok (part of me knew i wouldnt but needed to be on my own) she eventually agreed to me going home but as long as i came back and stayed at hers over night and i wasnt ages, told her needed to get some clothes n stuff. i dont really remeber much about being at my flat i know my sister turned up but i didnt let her in, and ended up ringing the police. they eventually got in and the last thing i remeber then was the paramedics tuning up then being at hospital with police stood in my room. was all a bit mad really. but the psych team in ane were really good was lady i know pretty well and like. we had a good chat and she managed to get me into the crisis unit that night as she agreed that going straight onto the ward wouldnt be helpful. we were going to see how i was over the next few days and take it from there. so ive been at the unit since then, but came home this morning. and crisis are going to come out later on and see how im doing. April, Becs, Sarah, Steffie Lady bug.
I'm sorry about all of that... it really sucks that the crisis team wasn't more helpful. I'm glad that you had your sister there to help you, though, that's good. Do you live on your own? and how are you doing now? Hopefully a little better, I'll be keeping you in my prayers.). T appts have been rough, have talked about the sexual abuse in my past and the last appt was pretty rough, urk. Not looking forward to the next appt (next week).s to all.
Thats good to hear. YOu will be awesome at social work
. So still enjoying it? and ditto to aprils question, how long do you ahve left?Im sorry things are so hard for you at the moment katey. Did being in the crisis unit help a little bit? How are you feeling now? Sending lots of love and prayers your way. Oh and even more HUGS (which is my specialty)
April, I sorry to here that you are struggling. Do you think it will help seeing your T twice a week again? Ive been thinking about scars alot lately. I hate them because im constantly trying to hide them and it reminds me of so many horrible times... but yet they are probably one of the main things stopping me from SIing more because I do not want any more scars to hide. along with not wanting ppl to know...
Im sorry things are so hard for you at the moment katey. Did being in the crisis unit help a little bit? How are you feeling now? Sending lots of love and prayers your way. Oh and even more HUGS (which is my specialty)
Sorry I ahvent been around lately. For one, I have been on holidays with limited access to internet. and as for before then, I didnt want to bother anyone with what was going on in my mindd... Im ok... well, my acting skills are getting fairly good lol... so if im honest with myself and with you im not doing too good i guess... for a number of reasons... that arent very clear to me and i wont bore you with.
Im starting up with a personal trainer this semester... because i have been excercising like crazy and not losing any weight... so im hoping maybe this personal trainer will be able to give me some more insight in the right exercises to do... some more guidance... *fingers crossed*
, good to see you. hope youve had good holiday? and dont worry about borthering us, if you need to get it out and feel safe doing it here then go ahead, if we can well try help, but sumtimes just sharing things is helpful, and your not going to bore us at all hun. Hope you get the guidance you want from personal trainer, theyre good especially if sometimes theres a tendency to maybe over excercise. but i hope they help you in the best possible way. Wow, Katey, sounds like you have had a bit of a rough time there.
I'm doing okayish, still keeping the food log, still plugging away at eating enough and exercising enough (not doing so well with the latter though
how you doing? talking about painful things from past is hard and can often bring up so many unwanted and hard feeling, but well done for starting to april, just remeber that your talking about it in a safe environment thats what i used to tell myself. hope your next app goes ok x hows the food log going? xx feel pretty messed up at the minute if im honest :'(huge to everyone hope your all ok xxx
I have been having EMDR therapy for a few weeks, and it has been amazing... the memories are still there, but a lot less painful, and I am getting a lot less flashbacks as well. It might be something worth asking your T about.
