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One of my old therapists said "have you honestly been previously diagnosed with depression? Because I don't see the signs..." "I'm pretty sure that uncontrollably staring at walls for hours not speaking or eating, wearing the same clothes for days on end, feeling like I have 1000 tonne weights...

I think sometimes people's level of disclosure/openness about their lives can change depending on lots of factors. It's pretty common to be overly open about something that's very painful at times -- secrets can destroy and I wonder if she spilled her guts out to you because she feel like you...

This sounds really tough but you are incredible for doing what you can. I obviously don't know exactly what care you get at the MH residential unit, but if you just feel like you're just doing what they want you to do yet not getting anything out of their treatment then that has to change...

Do you know how much training and experience your T has with this? I don't know why and when you dissociate but it is really hard to deal with in therapy. I do it constantly and at first my therapist seemed to think I was either stupid or on drugs, and I'm not either! It's painful when...

I've been getting more full-on panic attacks recently that seem to be connected with my eating, most of the time. I've managed to overhaul my diet recently after FINALLY managing to shift my mindset around food as a crutch. It also really felt like my body had just said "enough", which is...

I live in a safe place, in a nice flat and no one bothers me here, which I'm incredibly lucky for. I'm going to occupy my time now by getting it all clean and fresh and nice for when someone visits tomorrow. My migraine was gone this morning.

Thinking about an essay I need to write analysing a self-help article on navigating online dating... and also thinking about how I just tried to turn the radio off with the TV remote :tdown:

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Scone-based pizza. I think scones here are like biscuits in the US? Anyway, this makes a lovely base for pizza. It's much quicker and simpler than making a normal pizza due to the fact that there's no yeast needed, plus it's really cheap to make. I roll the base out thin like I would with...

I started reading Dark Heart, by Nick Davies, a UK journalist. It was written well over 20 years ago now and is a big piece of investigative journalism on some of the lives on I guess what then would have been called the UK 'underclass'. Very sad and tough reading with a gigantic trigger...

Hi everyone, I know it's been a while but I want to say thank you so much for all your kind and helpful replies, and I'm sorry for disappearing! Just getting back to you all now! Thank you, no it's not a derail at all! :) I have done this for a while -- I worked as a transcriptionist from...

Tornadic Thoughts: I like sweet potato wedges but can never get them perfect -- how do you get them crispy?! :) Raisins & black coffee. Haven't had much today but have been overeating for a long time so I'm really not going hungry now! AM finally putting my foot down and doing whatever I...

Used a weighted exercise hula hoop indoors for 30min. Might have to clear even more space next time!!! :p Also completed a 10 min set of abs exercises, with leg drops, russian twists, mountain climbers, flutter kicks etc. Youtube vids are a saviour 'cause I know nothing about cardio otherwise.

An orange & green tea (ambivalent), and before that I had a snack of spicy thai sriracha corn kernels and peas.

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First thing I was diagnosed with when I was about 15 was extreme social anxiety and depression (I could barely speak or relax enough to move freely around people, my whole body felt frozen all the time, just lived in constant terror since my pre-teens... just being around other humans was...

carrot and coriander soup, a bag of mini cheesy oat crackers, grapes and an apple and oat snack bar

XTC - Senses Working Overtime St. Vincent Performs 'Los Ageless' Last one... now I really better try and sleep.

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I refuse for my mental health to be a dirty little secret, after bottling it up for so long in the past and knowing the damage that this did, and knowing how wrong it is. Why should we be expected to essentially hobble around and take the blame for something out of our control? But it's often a...

Today I had a fajita, nuts and raisins, an orange and sliced banana with plain yoghurt. And lots of tea.

One is an old UK show, Father Ted. It's light hearted but really well made... surreal and silly at the same time. There's something about it for me that's like getting a comforting hug haha. Co-written by Graham Linehan, who also co-wrote Black Books, The IT Crowd etc. Best of Ted - Father...

I think sometimes when people just aren't that emotionally affected by something they take the fact that they coped pretty effortlessly simply as proof of their own strength. Because, why not? :O_o: They aren't really thinking about all the nuances of their situation, or of the other persons...

Yep, I feel like this too. Okay, I've never been Einstein, and never really got the opportunity to really thrive throughout the whole of my school years, but I was always quite perceptive and had a creative mind, and untapped potential, I think. I have all these problems now and I just don't...