Mental Health Support Society Mk X

Went to look at a boarding place for my mice cos my mum wants me to go on holiday with her, only when we got there some guy yelled at us for parking in the wrong place. Cue me crying non-stop and being unable to go look at the place. So wasted time, wasted a trip and petrol, and I still don't know if the place is ok, or even if I want to go on holiday at all.

Thats a bit mean of him!
Could someone not look after them for a bit, or even the place you got them from?



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Zooplus - it's a pretty good online pet shop. The hemp might seem expensive, but trust me it'll last you for months - comes in a massive bag. My mice really like it, as if you do a thick layer it's really good for tunnelling, and for some reason they like just carrying bits of it about the cage too. There are some good toys on that site too.

Yeah I use dried ones - much more practical, and less wriggly! I give them millet too and haven't had any problems with it - maybe give them a little bit at a time next time? It could also be they were just stressed at the time as well, I've heard they dislike moving house about as much as humans do.

Show pictures!!! I don't know the official names for my ones' colours, but one is ginger and the other two are brown-and-white cow coloured. You can see some kinda crappy photos of them here - I need to take more pictures now they're less shy. Grace is much smaller than the other two, but we don't know if it's just genetics or cos she was probably taken away from her mum too soon. She's also really speedy, and really shy, so I think it's gonna take a while to tame her!

That's great that you got them from a good breeder - I've heard that if you get them from Pets at Home then half the time the females have been kept together with the males and come home with you pregnant! I'm really glad I was able to get mines from a rescue - the woman who runs it is lovely and we've been emailing each other a lot with questions and advice and stuff.

My friend I live with isn't doing so well himself, so we've already agreed it would be asking too much of him to be looking after them, especially if I go for more than a week and he'd have to clean the cage out. The woman I got them from would probably be happy to look after them, only she lives too far away. Thanks for the ideas though.

I might put off making any decisions for a few days - I shouldn't find out when my dissertation extension is for (if I get it ) till Thursday, so I should probably wait till then anyway. I'm quite nervous about the idea of leaving my mice for over a week as they're only just getting used to me, and that plus dissertation plus debt problems is all just piling up...

At the drs in an hour and terrified :/


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How did it go?


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cant stop crying. don't feel safe at all and I feel so hated by everyone. honestl hae no idea what to do so irrational

if it makes no grammatical sense then personally i would say you are fine to ask for clarification. is it consistent errors throughout or just the odd one?

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I think the first step is to make a list of stuff you need to do, if it's all written down it'll be easier to remember. Then once you've done that look over the list and see what the easiest thing is then work on doing it. One at a time.

Do you have a care coordinator who you could palm off the benefits stuff onto, at least? Not that I always try and palm things off to others or anything

thought id let you know that Rory is still at his mums for the immediate future, and hes got his smile back and is safe and about to be tucked up in bed sleeping

Who is best to go see about depression? I would have thought doctors wouldn't be able to do much which is why I've always used my own ways to sort myself out when I feel unhappy.

Been very crappy lately and so not been on much. for all that need them, really sorry I haven't been supportive or anything.
Going away for a week tomorrow so I'm not going to be posting, hope everyone is doing all right and I'll hopefully be back to being able to be supportive of others once I've returned. Hoping this trip will do me some good, desperately feeling like I need to escape atm.

okay so managed to get my mum not to kick me out (for now at least :/), basically have to somehow motivate myself to look after myself and do more chores which is kinda scary cause I know I am gonna struggle with it. but I don't have any other place to go right now so I just hope that motivates me at least.

sleep is still blaahhh right now but just got a free month of Netflix so at least have stuff to watch/do now.

hope people are okay, many hugs to those that need them, cause I know I could do with some right now!

**** **** ****. Dont think iv got EC


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why do ****ing ptsd nightmares have to be so intrusive the next day. have to keep remembering and then being all "no, not real, just a dream" but then by that point i'm thinking about Bad Things and intrusive thoughts are everywhere. hate this. wish i had cbt sooner than 18th cos theres stuff i need to talk about and i was too useless to talk about it last session. and i think until i next see her, i'm going to be preoccupied with it. making my brain want to explode.

Oh my goodness they are so gorgeous!!! I particularly like Elliott's colouring!

I gave them a teeny bit of millet last night, just to see how it would go. They loved it of course; I think you're right that it was probably the stress of moving plus millet which gave them funny tummies. I am investigating the hemp, I love Zooplus.

How old are yours? Mine are.....13 weeks now? I'm not sure when they're fully grown.

Yes I'm not a fan of Pets at Home. One time I was in there and we had to alert one of the staff that a Chinese hamster had give birth! Stupidly he then moved the entire bottom of the cage (it slid out) to take it to the back, which probably stressed her. On the plus side, the one near me has pretty good staff, and the animals are always clean. I've heard some real horror stories.

Edit: Just seen your posts above, I'm sorry you're having a tough time finding somewhere for the meeces.

when i was in the Drs i saw a teacher from school that used to be really nasty to me, and pretty much bullied me.
when i saw her i got so scared, and i know i shouldnt be scared of her anymore because she cant do or say anything, but it really got to me, and i became really pannicy deffinately didnt like it

Im just in a bad place atm i think.
And need my boyfriend because im falling apart and having bad thoughts.
So im massively hating myself atm


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why do ****ing ptsd nightmares have to be so intrusive the next day. have to keep remembering and then being all "no, not real, just a dream" but then by that point i'm thinking about Bad Things and intrusive thoughts are everywhere. hate this. wish i had cbt sooner than 18th cos theres stuff i need to talk about and i was too useless to talk about it last session. and i think until i next see her, i'm going to be preoccupied with it. making my brain want to explode.

Still need to talk to someone I think. Not sure who though, it's all triggering and sort of want to talk to someone I haven't really discussed anything with before so I can get a better fresh look, but is all selfish. Don't know what to do.

Thank you for updating us.

People like that are frankly pathetic - you're worth a million of her Poncho!

just thought you guys would want updating and i knew he was sleeping


i dunno, she was SO mean to me, once she said that i was basically taking up 99% of the badminton court i was laid on
she then got me in trouble for walking out after she said it.
i didnt think id feel like that after seeing her, but i did, i literally just wanted to hide, but my mum was there

I think the best thing about the up and coming colder months is that I have an excuse not to do stuff. I could sit in the warmth under a quilt, drink hot chocolate/tea and watch films n'all

I have actually had a nice day today, I went through a whole day without thinking about anything majorly negative I hope all is well for everyone