The whole time I went to any of these groups, I felt like was the support staff to learning disabilities to make sure they didn't get into mischief in the closed-off pub or cause issues that could bring down our reputation or alarm to members of the public having a drink or cause issues with police with Kelly’s aggressively demanding attitude problem and plus Kelly is that lady always turns up to these things and I absolutely hate her guts, she's never been nice to me she always comes over as threatening and then quite clingy and there's only certain amount of times we can say ”its her learning dis or mental health” and it would be about things that we wouldn't necessarily associate with distress and can be very embarrassing for the police to be called and for us to tell that she had anger episode because she couldn't find a pen lid and when there looked after her and her mate michelle she's rarely grateful and then starts taking theof us, we have been kicked out and blamed/stigmatised for our conditions. People have assumed that it's us that causing the problems.
I just wish she would leave us alone and go and hang out with people of her own ability with the safety of support staff who get get paid to deal with these problem and not people who have long term illnesses and who other problems to deal with and come to unwind and get away from problems or who struggle with anxiety of meeting people.
It isn't an official mental health support group run by the council or NHS, that one I left ages ago. This one and the stuff it's just general meet ups that that we agree on and there's no set code. We have chosen to not to not drink alcohol in the pub not because of our mental health, we are all consenting adults just we chose not because don't want LD people getting ideas, they've been told by their carers not to drink and not to follow other punters.
Mark that organised it doesnÂ’t drink anyway heÂ’s naturally tee-total and plus. The other reason why I am not going to these places is because of Laura. SheÂ’s someone that had is really monotone voice and can extremely boring to talk in group of group of seven.
And plus I have other things now I prefer to do at home that actually distract me and give me that focus and also have other things that I have to do that clash with these groups that can’t be changed and weigh a lot of significance to my life and are very meaningful to me. I cannot get back into the habit of not doing course work or studying and going to places instead for social “enjoyment” purposes. Those activities are now strictly for the weekend. These are my personal recommendation to complete all courses.
I will socialise and meet people either at uni during the break/lunch half hour afterwards if not to late when I spend time with family or with Graham and that feels enough.
Doing uni work is hard enough for everyone and is overwhelming with deadlines and workload, exams and coursework. There's a lot to think about, to worry and to have concerns. It's not something i could throw away and trash int he bin and the concerns will.be coping.
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it’s be lovely to get to know you - is Graham your boyfriend? What are you studying at uni? So you belong to the student union?
