9 years!
good luck with the next bit. It's all a bit scary telling people the truth about how things really are

I'm usually OK on my own, but if you have no goals or tasks or deadlines, everything gets a bit spoolly and unfocused.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 16:41, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

What I'm most scared about
Is the new consultant being like the old one. A proportion of psychiatrists are scary bastards who give a strong impression that they hate their patients. I've met real life nurse Rachetts too. Mental Health care is a weird buisness. If they turn out to be a nice, reasonable person then it'll be fine. It's all nothing I don't talk about with close friends (when I get to see them).

And yeah, I need to be more active and, like, do stuff, but have grown so damn lazy over the years.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 16:58, Reply)

The few I've had dealings with have been helpful and easy to talk to.

( girlinthehole, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 17:01, Reply)

I've had three awful ones
My family and other patients who met them agreed. I think it's this area. I've either got a massive Madame Bovary complex or the West Midlands is a magnet for shitcunts. It's probably a bit of both.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 17:04, Reply)

You know what the best solution would be?
Just stop being such a fucked up mental head. Works for me.
(Bazongaloid, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 17:06, Reply)

Righty-oh
Reminds me that Blaireau had a 10-point plan for that - I'll dig it out of the archives - what an online angel.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 17:12, Reply)

Just look at my profile
I preserved it for posterity
(Bazongaloid, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 17:14, Reply)

I've only every been to a relationship counselor
and she was nice. I didn't really like the whole 'talking about things' but much, though. I would have though psychiatrists would be more 'people' people, since that's what they do
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 17:06, Reply)

What they do a lot of
is try to find the right medication. Sometimes they sign forms to hospitalise patients against their will and inject them in the arse with zombifying drugs. It's tricky moral territory and I think a lot have grown cynical. A bit like with the police, you get good ones and nasty ones.
(Fancy a weekend on my Raymondo Luxury Yacht?, Sat 30 Jan 2010, 17:14, Reply)