Same thing happens to me everytime. It always hits my chest. Thankfully I’ve not been ill in a long while *touches wood*
Hope you feel better soon.
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Same thing happens to me everytime. It always hits my chest. Thankfully I’ve not been ill in a long while *touches wood*
Hope you feel better soon.
Cheers Stella. I was hoping to avoid the antibiotics this time. Not so lucky!:(
(panda) rest up hunni
Totally sympathise love. I'm currently on antibiotics too...
The first antibiotic was reacting with some of the other meds that I'm on, so I had to stop that one and start a new one on Friday.
Now, something that has been said to me recently. Are my mental health problems down to actually being ill, or are they learned behaviour? What would happen if I stopped going to Toghermore? What if I stopped taking the meds? What if I became a total gym bunny and started working out every day - to put the same energy into something completely different? What's the worst that can happen? Am I just used to having these crutches in my life, that I really can't imagine being without them?
I'm now wondering if maybe, I can be discharged from Toghermore. That I can come off the meds (with my GP's help) and that I put the last 12.5 years down to an experience, and say been there, done that, now it's time to move on.
I'd like your suggestions please.
Please, please, please don't do it! Not yet, you've been so poorly I really think you need to give yourself time to be more stable as you are.... Then start talking to your medical team. I think that the recent crashes you have had prove that, for you, it's not "learned behaviour." I don't know who said that to you but I think it's really dangerous of them to say things like that. When you are slipping it becomes very obvious in your posting style, how often you post etc.... Really, really, please don't do this.... Maybe at some point later, but definitely not right now.
Ok I’ll be honest with you, I mean, you know me.
I thing the exact same thing on a regular basis. Am I actually mentally ill or just dealing with a lot of heavy shit. If you remove the one major issue of access to my kids, which is enough for anyone to deal with, would I just be a regular person?
Am I just a lazy fat cow whose lifestyle has created a lot of my physical ailments? I mean let’s list them…
Sleep Apnoea - fat disease
Diabetes - fat disease
Asthma - plenty of fat folks with that one too
Hypertension - not helped in any way by being fat.
Various joint problems - made worse by carrying extra weight.
There is a strong argument for stopping my meds and doing some exercise. BUT…. I have stopped my meds before. I learned that they are the only think keeping me stable. Stable doesn’t mean cured, stable means functioning. When I go off the rails, which I do from time to time I know that it would be unbearable without medication. That’s a fact and if I need medication for me to function mentally, I must have an illness. Also the exercise thing. Oh yeah it really does help but there’s a couple of issues. I’m majorly unfit and need to build it up a lot slower than I’d like. Secondly, my body breaks down a lot easier because it’s not able to keep up due to being older and having physical problems and these breakdowns take so much longer to get better again due to the very real illnesses.
Basically, take the meds and attend therapy sessions. You need them. If you want to exercise then go for it, but not if it hurts you. That’s counter productive.
Magie, what would you tell any of us if we'd been told what you have and we're thinking of stopping treatment?
Don't even think it, it's so easy to think that meds aren't working or I don't need them but they're false thoughts keep on with your current meds regime is my advice.
I’m with everybody else - this is not learned behaviour, you have a real, serious illness. Your treatment is there to keep you stable enough so you can have a life worth living - with G and with Ais. It is not worth risking everything you’ve worked so hard to build up over the last 12.5 years just because (I assume) a non medical person comes up with a throwaway comment like that.
Yes, if you do want a healthier lifestyle, then go for it. But it’s not a replacement for the treatment that has helped you so much for so many years
Tbh, I’m furious with whoever it was that said that to you. They have no idea of the damage they could do