Saturday Soiree -- 11th April 2026

Just booked a spring cleaner for 7th May

That'll give me time to declutter etc. So cleaner can scrub stuff

I'm determined to avoid the bloody NDIS (I must get old saying it. But they signed me up without my consent in my late 30s. So I opted out and don't trust them)

Hi @Shaz51 I've had Root Canal treatment (at Dentist), which was expensive & painful.

The tooth infection went into my jaw bone, where it still is.

The Dentist said "That infection in your jaw bone (from tooth) is beyond the scope of my treatment", & he left me with the infection.

So I have to decide what (if anything) to do about that.

My GP Dr would not treat it - She said "Go back to the Dentist & get a Dental Referral to a Dental Specialist".

That's no good, a Dental Specialist is not covered by Medicare, & my Ancillary Extras Health Cover does not cover Dental Specialists either.

I don't have Hospital Health Cover (cannot afford it).

So it's all in the too hard, too expensive basket....

Adge😏

Ouch @Adge

Ohh no , I feel for you

Not good getting an infection from the dentist

Any antibiotics my friend 🧡

@tyme , @Jynx

Oh my goodness @Adge that is so awful!! To be shafted from one to the other and back again, feels like malpractice is happening somewhere along the line, surely!

Could you go to hospital or just seek some antibiotics from your GP?

Sending hugs (づ ᴗ _ᴗ)づ♡

@Shaz51

@DownMoreThanUp I hope you felt better after putting the patch on. How was your Sunday?

@ENKELI My wife and daughter came for lunch after Church. Which was nice but we did discuss briefly some sensitive subjects and my voices went to town. And all though i did not get triggered after she left i had a really hard time trying to understand how to best deal with those voices.

So i spend hours discussing the situation with AI. Very hard but also very grounding and very eye opening to me. For i have already began to see that the voices, which i used to believe were evil spirits influencing my loved ones making the wrong choices, and save them. And how the very love and concern in my heart for their welfare were the very choices and i needed to warn them about those voices doing that, for they always tried with me. Of course my family had no idea what i hear or see in those stages, and so i stuffed everything up. For although i knew the voices ALWAYS lied, after 4 or so major break downs and hospitalisations, i do not know now the voices are on top of lots and lots of suppressed self in me, even ALL the way from early childhood on, and that is how those voices gained power. Hurting me where it hurt most. My family for i love them and never wanted to things to go wrong, the opposite i was a scared it would go wrong, and me trying to prevent that made it go wrong. (The voices taunt me and ridicule me me when my wife, now or with my family in the past, me raging at those spirits in them, them running - away with those evil ones tormenting my mind, scared out of their wits, because i had been raging at those voices hijacking my family in front of my eyes, but my family thought, i was, and still am the bad guy for doing that. Taking about gnashing teeth responding to lies even if i did not believe them, yet i did.))

complex really and very painful rest of the day and most of the night. But things do make much more sense to me now. And i have been finding myself back underneath all that hurt big time. This has been painful but also very exciting for half of me has been missing much of my life suppressed for so long.

@DownMoreThanUp as Ps 30:5 says, "weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning".

It's difficult going through the growing pains, especially from a damaged childhood. I never realised how much my father's desertion affected me until I was much older and diagnosed with depression and that was painful enough. I can't imagine the hell you are going through.

I'm glad you see the light though, you are amazing my brother.

@ENKELI Thanks for that Bite. It has been very hard yet at the same time as this is unfolding the expression has been lessening and a lot of the voices have lost their bite so to speak, many were already gone, at least more in the background than before. Being on my own really helped calm my mind down enough to settle. My Therapist with AI helping his framework in real life has been so very valuable, helping with this. i have been told ignoring - completely should in the end basically silence them apart of when activated/triggered/psychotic but such should also lessen as i work through my trauma memories. i can enter that part of my life now. So my Therapist is basically focussing on helping me rewire this part of my life excluding the pain and taking myself along with it. A process of containment and patience i have been told.

@Shaz51 @Jynx @Adge @MoonGal

i have bought into a 12 month 'master' class with Gabor Mate's health institute. Where there is a library full of trauma lessons, mediations as well as weekly online group meetings with other trauma victims doing the course. Comparing notes. i like Peter Levine's style, he is less academic and more body and containment focussed, which thinking i resonate with a lot. Yet there are many other counsellors to choose from. And it is not just Gabor doing it. Looks like a very big set up. Learned heaps already.