I can’t cope

Well well done! @Captain24

Impressive!

So guess what my task was?

See above @tyme! I was ready lol

Well my task was...

My therapist gave me a tissue @Captain24 . He asked me for 10 things about the tissue! Ok... 10, I scrapped through.

Then, he asked for 9, then 8, then 7 etc.

Do you know how hard that was!

Another session, he gave me a sticky note.

Same thing... asked me for 10 things to describe the sticky note...

So how about that? You should try it when things get too tough.

OMG @tyme

I wouldn’t have been able to do that. That’s rough. I had enough trouble with the task you set me.

It is worth doing though on gratefulness. It has change my outlook a bit. There is a bit in my life to be grateful for. I couldn’t see it at the beginning.

I’ll have to come up with some tasks to use. Not a tissue lol! Maybe good things about me? But there isn't that many. Things about Pix? Do they have to be good like gratefulness?

Definitely @Captain24 ! Go for it! Write it down if you want!

But yes, a plain, white, tissue was soooo incredibly hard, as well as a sticky note.

LOL... can I chuckle and say it 'scarred' me and hence I remember it so vividly!!!???

Can I ask you questions about being discharged from the MH team? @tyme

Sure! @Captain24 !

When you get discharged @tyme do they just dump you and run? Do you then have to find your own psychiatrist and build your own team?

Nahhh... they talked about discharge and I gave them the date. I felt 'ready'. They were shocked because they weren't expecting it to be so soon!

No, they did not run and dump. They made sure I was connected with a GP for follow-up care (I did not need a psych now because my meds were stable), they made sure I had a psychologist. They linked me in with a psychosocial support worker and a women's fitness group. Then they send discharge papers to the GP and psychologist to ensure they had a proper handover.

And they did let me know that if I ever needed support again, to contact them 🙂 @Captain24

So the door was open.

And that's another thing I'm grateful for... who would have taken on a case like me? Even my case manager said they normally do not take people like me.... but they did!

I am sooo sooo sooo eternally grateful!

Thanks @tyme. She mentioned it today but I don’t think im ready at all. I just didn’t know what happened after.

She wants to wait until March at the earliest as that’s when I started to go downhill and apparently bipolar can run in cycles.

I want to wait until July as that’s when I first hit absolute rock bottom.

My meds have only been working 4 weeks and at the moment not really well.