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 and one as a visitor and believe me, most of the time patients…
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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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I feel like a real content creator
1. It’s Saturday so John will be coming in the afternoon. We’re planning to play some more Dominion and all the other usual stuff. I miss him. It would be so nice if we could live together, but we may need a large house for that, we both have so much stuff! 2. It’s been…
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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…
Autistic and me 