Tag: psychosis
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How I developed my third episode
Ok, that hasn’t been discussed yet. Somehow all three episodes are connected to issues with employment. The only difference is that in case of Home Group, and then the other employer – learning disability care provider – the employers were clearly to blame. With Fessey House the problem was, they seemed too good to be…
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Who called for that ambulance?
So, hospital staff was hinting me it was my neighbour who called them. They said they were told I was wandering outside during the night – which I certainly wasn’t; I then thought it was my neighbour who exaggerated to get me help quicker. But maybe it’s the NHS who made it all up, the…
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Gossip from psychiatric hospital
1. It does seem to me that some people imagine psychiatric hospitals as scary places where patients run around naked, hit their heads against walls and need constant restraining. I’ve been in three psychiatric hospitals as a patient, in two different countries and one as a visitor and believe me, most of the time patients…
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I’d rather be… in A&E
However… anyway. My mobile is being a bit funny after spending the entire week under my fridge and I’m scared to look at my emails. Otherwise I am not too bad, I suppose. I just had 3 course dinner in Sandalwood Court, Swindon and it’s only been a few hours since I realised that Queen…
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‘Mum, I can’t come over now’
That’s what I was thinking today about my trip to Poland. That I wanted to tell mum that I won’t be coming due to the difficult situation there and I wanted to hear her say that that’s ok and she’ll cope. Those thoughts came to me a few times and every time it took me…
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I think the news are set up
Do you think I’m getting psychotic for thinking that? I especially mean here the trip of Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and some other people to Kiev. It didn’t make much sense to me that they went there, there was nothing that they could do by going and were only exposing themselves to danger. But…
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Mental health and self-stigma
Self-stigma – I think I have a lot of it. Even though I blog about my mental health. I think it’s a lot to do with how we use language. It seems like everyone wants to talk about mental health openly now and this conversation starts like this: ‘Talking about mental health is so important,…
Autistic and me 