Battles

@MissGremlin I’m so glad you liked the tags and that they made you feel cared for.

Taking the day easy is a good plan for the day. Is it nice weather in your patch today? It’s very sunny here in Victoria. Very warm weather for our winter. It’s not hot just unusually warm for winter.

Have you been doing any puzzles? Oooh and I hope your psychologist is back from leave I remember you mentioning they were gone for a month.

@Cuddlebear its sunny here off and on today but it's cold inside.

I finished one puzzle a while ago, started another but got frustrated when a piece to the border was missing. The counsellor I've been speaking to was away and then the first appointment back was cancelled on me and I haven't heard anything since.

@MissGremlin How frustrating that a piece was missing. You’d be trying to find the right piece and not realising it’s not there. Hopefully the next one is all complete.

That’s not good to hear about the counsellor situation. I really do hope that an appointment is made for you really soon. I stopped seeing the counsellor I started with recently as she wasn’t helpful and didn’t do any counselling just kept asking questions about the housing. She didn’t want to do actual therapy.

Did you see a SANE newsletter came out? It was good.

@Cuddlebear it was very frustrating. I've ordered a couple of new ones and I'm waiting for them to arrive.

Sorry to hear the counsellor you were seeing wasn't helping. Sometimes it can take a few times of trying to find the right fit.

I haven't looked at the newsletter at this stage.

Hello @Appleblossom, thankyou. This made me smile with all the little emojis ❤️. Hope you are going well ❤️

@MissGremlin I have some time to sit and have a cuppa with you, if you're up for it?

Sorry sweet @NightFury. I missed this but I'm ready to have a cuppa whenever you are now ❤️

I'm still here @MissGremlin and have only just started to drink my cuppa, so you're free to join if you like?

@NightFury alright my kettle has just boiled. How are you going sweet?

@MissGremlin to be honest, things got really challenging and I'm trying to find my feet again.

I umm...went through/am still going through about four weeks of intense insomnia, which brought me to the edge with my mental health and I made some silly decisions - one in particular. I'm okay. I took myself off to an urgent care clinic, they turned me away because they couldn't support me, and I had to wait two weeks to see my GP. I got through those two weeks because of the forums and the support I found here. I finally got in to see my GP on Wednesday of last week and she's put me on meds to support my sleep. I have a few physical things going on - I have to wear a heart monitor for 24 hours, and that's being put on me this Thursday and need to have bloods. I have a history of heart palpitations and before she can adjust my meds, and put me on something to help me manage my panic attacks, she needs to make sure that my heart is still travelling along okay. So, I'm really anxious about that and I'm trying not to think too far ahead and freak myself out about it.

So that's me in a nut shell really. I'm just trying to stabilise myself and find solid ground.

How are you going?