Ceelllllll-e-brate good times! A place to celebrate ourselves and eachother :)

Tonight I want to celebrate @JackJane

JackJane is in the Ask Anything Monday discussion most weeks giving really great practical and insightful feedback. Thank you JackJane - the Ask Anything Monday discussion is a really important one, as it gives those who aren't comfortable just yet, an outlet to get their questions answered.

I forgot to ask - were there any other celebrations that people wanted to put out there?

Thank you.

JJ.

If it's ok to blow my own trumpet in this thread, I want to celebrate a bit of an achievement at work. I have finally mastered a new and frightfully complicated piece of software that is hopefully going to ensure I keep my current position which I love, and in general make me more employable.

Dear @chookmojo

I've been an absolute mess in the past 3 weeks.

No wonder, Ive been taking my pills wrong.... Its been awful...but for the first time in the past 3 weeks, I picked up the instructions that my GP gave me three weeks ago and Im taking 150 mg less in one tyoe of meds and replaced it with another...taking too little of that one......

Ive got some questions to ask you and hope that they are not too intrusive;

1. How sis you meet your husband? You seem so suited!!

2. How do you cope with daily......throught processes if you feel that they are maybe......a bit strong?

3. How old were you when you felt, things werent right in your life??

@PeppiPatty Hello lovely. No wonder you have been having a rough time, hopefully things settle down now that you have your meds sorted out.

I don't mind answering your questions at all. Met the hubster at work, selling health insurance in a callcentre, of all things. Was a real turn of fate as the circumstances leading up to each of us being there were quite farfetched. I fell for him right away and he took a bit longer to win over. We are ridiculously compatible.

Thought processes. I do a lot of self NLP usually by writing it out and that helps a lot. Getting things on paper helps me to stop looping or obsessing. Sometimes I do other stuff like CBT, Clean Language... But it still usually involves writing it out. I find that easier and more effective than talking about it, though usually after I have worked something out I will talk about it then.

Sometimes I call a friend who also does NLP and get them to run a process on me, (I do the same for him). And when I am not coping well enough I go get professional help.

The truth is not all of my coping is that healthy. I also emotionally eat, I wag work, I spend too much money online and watch way too much TV as ways to avoid things and distract myself.

As for the how old question... I had always had problems with separation anxiety, and weird issues, in kindi even, that in hindsight, these days would have got me a diagnosis of Autism much sooner.

I always felt different from other people and was always getting in trouble so knew I was different. That's how I ended up with the belief that I was a Bad Person, because I just couldn't do anything right or normal. So in some senses from a very, very early age.

If we are talking strictly when did I realise I had a mental illness... Probably at about 14 when my ED really took hold and took over. Until then I had just sort of assumed everything was because I was fundamentally Bad, it was only at that point that I realised this thing had a name and was not really a choice, and that I was following a very predictable pattern of behaviour.