Tag: Sleep School
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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…
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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, I also visited my dad in one and believe me, most of the…
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My recovery story
This is an overdue post, I do apologise. But maybe it will make more sense now, when it looks like I’m actually recovering. So basically, when my psychiatric nurse was leaving, which was around two months ago, she said she’d send a letter to my GP asking them to prescribe my olanzapine. I received the…
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Tuesday Blues
First of all I wanted to apologise for not taking SEO into consideration when choosing post titles. I think it’s much more creative this way. So today I decided I need to repeat the entire Sleep School course. Quite possibly I need to do it all regularly to avoid slipping into old, unhelpful patterns. I…
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Emotional regulation for autistics
I did wonder on my blog a couple of times what it means that autistic people have difficulties with emotional regulation, and neurotypicals find it easier. I never found any explanation for how neurotypicals do that and it did sound to me like after several minutes of being upset they just tell themselves ‘ok, it’s…
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Smart Goals vs Valued Directions
https://mentalhealthathome.org/2022/02/28/setting-goals-valued-directions/#comment-79730 This is a very interesting post by Ashley Peterson. Ashley discusses Valued Directions which is a concept from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (the same thing that Sleep School is based on) and they are alternative to goal setting. It’s interesting to also read about ‘dead person values’ – if a dead person can do…
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‘I find your lack of cheer disturbing’
I’ve heard it’s Valentines day today? And I’m single. Not that I was ever bothered too much when I was in a relationship. Me and John spoke twice last week: the first time we were talking about possibly getting back together but we couldn’t agree on how that would look like. Only then I had…
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Even more sleep
So basically yesterday, after having two long midday naps, like 4h in total I also had two evening naps. That’s how I marked mum’s funeral day. I then woke up at 22.30 and I decided it’s time to actually go to sleep so I changed into pj, brushed my teeth and slept till 7.40am. I’m…
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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 