Recognition for the work that carers do

Hi @Former-Member,

How is your week going? Mine is super quiet...and that's ok. I am finding that as the years go by and I become increasingly reclusive, the difference between this week and every other week of the year is getting less and less. I barely have any human contact anyway, so the fact that the world stops for this week is less noticable to me than it used to be.

I hope you and Mr Darcy are having a peaceful week.

Hi @Catcakes,

Fancy bumping into you over here. I don't venture into Carer's world too much, although there are quite a few other people who hop between Lived Experience town and Carer's town quite a bit. @Faith-and-Hope and @Shaz51 are two who spring to mind. Have you met @Former-Member before? Darcy, this is Catcakes, Catcakes this is Darcy.

@Former-Member, in answer to your question, I am familiar with the ICD-10, but for whatever reason (probably because we are so heavily influenced by the USA) the DSM-V still rules supreme in Australia. We never even looked at the ICD-10 during my degree. We were told of its existence, but it was always very much DSM all the way! I think the ICD-10 is used a lot more in Europe. It is certainly a much simpler system! The DSM-V is 945 pages long!!!! That's a LOT of box ticking! The amount of overlap between disorders etc is absurd. No wonder so many people end up getting a different diagnosis from every MH professional they see - grrrrrrrrrrr.

I missed being at FF last night. I just couldn't find it in myself to get there. I have been SUPER struggling since my turtle whisperer dumped me. That, combined with the Forum Land Tsunami (which is still in the process of being worked through) has really fried my brain. I still can't believe my turtle whisperer dumped me two days before I was due to see TTT. So utterly crushing.

Hmmm...it just occurred to me, I'm wondering if we should start a new thread? I can suddenly hear NikNik in my brain telling me to work at keeping threads on track...and this one went off track pretty much on page one.