Made a slight error in judgement by signing up to an assassin's game at uni where you are assigned targets that you have to fake-kill. So there are now three people who are going to be actively trying to find me and I don't know who they are. On the other hand one of my targets lives on my corridor and will be dead shortly. May need to become a hermit for a while.
Is it possible that some mental illnesses/disorders can't ever be cured?
Yeah, that has to do with the different causes. Some are like e.g. down syndrome, you are born with it and can't loose it. Yet, that does not mean, symptomes often vary so much, that for most of those, even if you can't cure them, there are so much other variables, it gives you a lot of possibilities and different outcomes.
Couldn't face uni today so I've let myself have the day off on the condition that I do as much catch-up work from last week as I can. Not sure how well that's going to work out for me considering I'm still in bed. Sigh.
I can feel myself slipping back into negative thought patterns about myself and the world and it's worrying me. The heaviness/anxiety in my chest is back as well. I can't relapse, I just can't
Does that help you to believe, that it is largely your own thoughts?
I can feel myself slipping back into negative thought patterns about myself and the world and it's worrying me. The heaviness/anxiety in my chest is back as well. I can't relapse, I just can't
(Anyway big hugs before I continue talking like a know-it-all. )
You have to be careful, that you don't fulfill your impression by somehow "overreacting" to negative signals other may have sent to you, which could have been easily forgotten by another reaction by you. Not saying, that you are responsible for everything, but to some extend we actually have it in our own hand.
Does that help you to believe, that it is largely your own thoughts?
(Anyway big hugs before I continue talking like a know-it-all. )
You have to be careful, that you don't fulfill your impression by somehow "overreacting" to negative signals other may have sent to you, which could have been easily forgotten by another reaction by you. Not saying, that you are responsible for everything, but to some extend we actually have it in our own hand.
It doesn't really help because the thoughts are still there but sometimes it helps to step back and ask myself is my brain manipulating the situation.
I get what you're saying, yeah. Just going to try and work through it and hope it goes away I think.
It doesn't really help because the thoughts are still there but sometimes it helps to step back and ask myself is my brain manipulating the situation.
Exactly, it just with practise it goes away quicker and quicker, at least the stuff which is triggered by things you have somehow under your control. And yeah, just understanding the manipulation helps. (Works for me.)
Exactly, it just with practise it goes away quicker and quicker, at least the stuff which is triggered by things you have somehow under your control. And yeah, just understanding the manipulation helps. (Works for me.)
Helping out with activities in a residential rehab place for people not quite ready to come out of hospital. At the interview it seemed really interesting and relevant to occupational therapy, so I'm pretty excited to finally be starting!
How you doing? I think I saw you mentioning the dreaded Crisis Team a few pages ago...