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Category Archives: Mental health services
The colour of madness
It’s been a very long time since I’ve blogged and this will probably be short as I’m typing it out on my phone at the bus stop. An hour ago I finished my first session of therapy in five years, … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychological therapies, Recovery, Uncategorized
Tagged Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Bipolar mood disorder, CAT, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Mad politics, Mad Pride, Mental health, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Spoony Theory, Therapy
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Crisis? What crisis?
I’ve thought about blogging so often in recent weeks, with several abortive attempts. I considered writing about the therapeutic benefits of having a companion animal – if you don’t follow me on social media, I now have a cat! She’s … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, Depression, Hypomania, Medication, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychiatry, Self-management, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Treatment planning
Tagged Antidepressants, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Clinical depression, Crisis, Crisis care, Crisis Team, Depressed thinking, Depression, Hypomania, Medication, Rapid cycling, Risk, Suicide, suicided
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Running up that hill
Trigger warning: this post contains descriptions of suicidal thoughts, including methods. Please don’t read on if you are feeling at all vulnerable. I want to run. I am desperate to run. When I wrote my last post my idea was … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, GP, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged abscond, Crisis, Crisis care, Crisis Team, escape, Sucidality, Suicidal ideation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide risk
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Hospital at home
Trigger warning: suicidal thoughts and planning A depressing side effect of being a seasoned blogger with a fluctuating condition is that the archive makes it very clear that I go around and around, having better times, then having groundhog day … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, GP, Hospital, Inpatient care, Mental health, Mental health services, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, NHS services, Rapid cycling, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Uncategorized
Tagged Absconding, Care in the Community, Crisis, Crisis care, Crisis Resolution Team, Crisis Team, Home Treatment Team, Hospital care, Mixed mood, Psychiatric hospital, Psychiatric ward, Rapid cycling, Suicidal ideation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
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On having a “carer”
By now I am a veteran at completing application/review forms for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) and Personal Independence Payment (PIP). ESA is for people who are too sick to work, while PIP is to cover extra expenses associated with … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, Crisis care, Depression, Employment and benefits, GP, Medication, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, NHS services, Rapid cycling, Suicidal thought, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Anxiety, Benefits, Benzodiazepines, Bipolar, Carer, Community Psychiatric Nurse, Crisis Team, Depression, ESA, GPs, PIP, Suicidal thoughts
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These are not the little things: unsanitary conditions on mental health wards
Today I got angry after reading a tweet. Just a regular day then, you might think, except this one made me so angry I have had to blog for the first time in months. I was reading a thread about … Continue reading
Posted in Hospital, Inpatient care, Mental health, Mental health services, NHS services, Psychiatry, Social media, Uncategorized
Tagged Cleanliness, Dirty, Inpatient care, Inpatient treatment, Inpatient unit, Mental health, NHS, Psychiatric ward
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Christmas approaches
It’s been a long time since I posted. I just don’t feel the urge as much these days; I’ve become habituated to things like hospitalisation and crisis care, therapy and medication changes, so although these things continue to play a … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Christmas, Crisis care, Depression, Employment and benefits, exercise, Hospital, Hypomania, Inpatient care, Medication, Mental health, Mental health services, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, NHS services, psychology, Self-management, Therapy, Uncategorized
Tagged Antidepressants, Care and treatment planning, Care co-ordination, Care co-ordinator, Cats, Christmas, Crisis Team, Depression, Duloxetine, Employment, Festive season, Holiday season, Mood monitoring, Mood tracking, New Year, Psychological therapies, Therapy, Treatment planning, Work
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The pam fam: the demonisation of benzodiazepines
“Diazepam.” A single word tweet. Regular readers or Twitter followers will know what that meant: I had hit an intolerable level of anxiety which I was managing with a prescribed benzodiazepine. One which I am not only authorised but encouraged … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, CBT, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Depression, Hypomania, Mental health, Mental health services, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, NHS services, Pillshaming, Primary care, Psychiatry, Rapid cycling, Self-management, Social media, Stigma and discrimination, Suicide, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Benzodiazepines, Benzos, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Crisis, Diazepam, GPs, Lorazepam, Mixed affective state, Mixed episode, Mixed mood, Mixed state, Prescribing, Prescribing practice, Primary care, Social media, Temazepam, Twitter, Xanax
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Warehousing
During my first admission, I was bored. Really bored. Most of the time I sat around talking to other patients. In the absence of communal seating areas not dominated by a blaring TV, we sat on the floor in the … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis care, Hospital, Inpatient care, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, NHS services, Recovery, The arts, Therapy, Uncategorized
Tagged Activities, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Bipolar mood disorder, Hospital care, Inpatient, Inpatient care, Inpatient treatment, Inpatient unit, Occupational Therapy, OT, Psychiatric hospital
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Revolving door
TW: references to suicide methods I remember the first time I was in hospital I was sitting on the floor chatting with my friend Phil, when he spotted somebody he recalled from a previous admission. “There’s Paul!” he said, looking … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Crisis care, Inpatient care, Mental health, Mental health services, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, NHS services, Psychiatry, Suicidal thought, Suicide, Treatment planning, Uncategorized
Tagged Community Psychiatric Nurse, CPN, Crisis, Crisis care, Crisis Resolution Team, Crisis Team, Hospital bed, Hospital care, Inpatient, Inpatient care, Inpatient treatment, Mixed affective state, Mixed episode, Mixed mood, Suicidal, Suicidal feelings, Suicidal ideation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicidality, Suicide, Suicide planning, Suicide risk
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