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  • Olanzapine meltdown

    So I decided, at the end, that aripiprazole was not a drug I can stay on. It seemed to make me really good at the beginning but this is long gone now. When I have a good night sleep I am more less ok, but if I don’t, I just end up walking around my…

    Magda Regula

    October 15, 2022
    Uncategorized
    employment, mental health, social imagination
  • Do you remember how I went on a diet last winter?

    It was probably February. I wasn’t trying any particular diet, I just wanted to eat less. It may sometimes be unclear how many calories I consume because I can eat very little for a few days and then have normal meals followed by chocolate and a sausage roll. Still, I’d say majority of days I…

    Magda Regula

    October 14, 2022
    Uncategorized
    relationship with food
  • I was a racist once

    I need to discuss this uncomfortable concept here. I was thinking that, although we all, in British society, try to raise the awareness of racism we rarely talk in details about what it actually is and what it isn’t. The British don’t want to touch this subject because they are worried they will be attacked…

    Magda Regula

    October 13, 2022
    Uncategorized
    British public, education, employment, opportunities, racism, social imagination
  • I had a uni related meltdown

    It was only a mild meltdown, really, but I realised afterwards that I was being bitter on my blog so I deleted that post. I believe we all get bitter sometimes, autistic or not, but somehow non autistic people have it easier to realise that expressing those feelings openly doesn’t make them look good. Blogging…

    Magda Regula

    October 12, 2022
    Uncategorized
    autism characteristics, autistic identity, communication, education, Entertainment, mental health, Sleep School
  • I don’t understand academic writing – stigma example

    Ok, so I started my studies and I wonder how I’m going to cope with academic writing if I don’t understand it. I’m just reading a report about perception of dementia; it’s from 2012 so hopefully things improved a bit, if not in perception, then at least in language. Let’s take that couple of sentences…

    Magda Regula

    October 11, 2022
    Uncategorized
    communication, education, social care
  • Empathetic listening (is communication taboo?)

    Yesterday I was meant to have my first phone session with a bereavement volunteer from Cruse but I somehow forgot about it and didn’t answer the call. She emailed me later so I apologised but straight away thought, wait a minute, do I want a stranger to demonstrate empathetic listening to me over the phone…

    Magda Regula

    October 8, 2022
    Uncategorized
    British public, communication, detecting bullshit, emotions, mum
  • Enjoyable and successful year ahead

    It does look to me like I had a mini maniac episode and during this time I signed up to Msc in Dementia on University of Hull. I presume you may be aware of it, if you read my blog regularly. Let me tell you how it went, from the beginning. So at first I…

    Magda Regula

    October 7, 2022
    Uncategorized
    autism characteristics, Baron-Cohen, British public, communication, education, infinite games, Poland
  • Am I at risk of fraud?

    I did post here a year ago how my mum become victim of fraud perpetrated by her favourite bank employee. It all looked really strange; the employee apparently stole such a large sum of money from several people that she could have lived in a mansion but she lived in a flat. She had a…

    Magda Regula

    October 5, 2022
    Uncategorized
    brother, fraud, social imagination
  • My significant other

    I was filling in a student loan form online in the morning and I was asked to give next of kin details. Obviously that would be John but I didn’t know what to choose for him as fiance wasn’t on the list. Funny thing, the list was pretty extensive; I presume most people would choose…

    Magda Regula

    October 3, 2022
    Uncategorized
    communication, sexuality, The Boyfriend
  • Waiting to get deported (my aripiprazole adventures)

    Still not sure if I spell aripiprazole correctly. What if Google won’t pick it up an no one will ever find my blog, except of those 5 people who read it regularly? I was put on aripiprazole in the hospital and felt fantastic on it for a week; what I mean by that is increased…

    Magda Regula

    October 2, 2022
    Uncategorized
    communication, mental health, psychosis, racism, sexuality, workplace bullying
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