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Tag Archives: Anxiety
Isolation, anxiety and ableism
So although the UK isn’t technically on lockdown the way a number of other European countries are, most people are beginning to find out what it’s like to spend a lot of time at home. The over-70s and people with … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, CBT, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mental health, NHS services, Politics and current affairs, Self-management, Social media
Tagged Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Anxiety disorders, coronavirus, COVID-19, Disability, Equality Act 2010, Generalised anxiety disorder, Health anxiety, Isolation, Loneliness, OCD, Panic disorder, Reasonable adjustments
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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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Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I – oh :(
Recently I decided that I was ready to get a job. Aside from the freelance stuff I did a couple of years ago, I haven’t worked for a long time. The last time I worked for an employer was in … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, Employment and benefits, GP, Mental health, Mood disorder, NHS services, Primary care, Recovery, Stress, Uncategorized
Tagged Anxiety, Benzodiazepines, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar mood disorder, Disability, Employment, ESA, ESA Employment and Support Allowance, Mental health, Mental illness, Obsessional thinking, Stress, Work, Workplace
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Semantics
Is your understanding of the word depression the same as mine? And how can we ever know? Continue reading
A life in the day of bipolar mixed mood
It would be so nice if being hypomanic and depressed at the same time meant that they cancelled each other out, if the high would make peace with the low so you could find a place in the middle. Instead they antagonise each other, taking it in … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, Christmas, Depression, Family issues, Hypomania, Mania, Mental health, Mixed mood, Mood disorder, Psychosis, Rapid cycling, Self-management, Social media, Uncategorized
Tagged Anxiety, Benzodiazepines, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Depression, Elation, Hypomania, Hypomanic, Irritability, Irritable hypomania, Mental health, Mixed affective state, Mixed episode, Mixed mood, Mixed state, Panic
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Not back on track
***TRIGGER WARNING SUICIDE*** Uh-oh. My rate of blogging is always a sign I could be unwell and here we are, two in two days. I mentioned medication change and aripiprazole (brand name Abilify) almost in passing yesterday. Truth is, I was using … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, Crisis care, GP, hallucinations, Hospital, Medication, Mental health, Mental health services, Mood disorder, NHS services, Primary care, Psychiatry, Side effects, Suicidal thought
Tagged Antipsychotics, Anxiety, Aripiprazole, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar mood disorder, Home Treatment Team, Medication, Quetiapine, Suicidal feelings, Suicidal ideation, Suicidal thoughts
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Prankxiety
Oh anxiety, you trickster, you joker, you fiddler with minds. Anxiety is all over me at the moment. There are probable reasons for this; I’m on a therapeutic dose of aripiprazole, which is well known for causing agitation and anxiety, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Bipolar, Medication, Mental health, Mood disorder, Side effects, Uncategorized
Tagged Antipsychotics, Anxiety, Aripiprazole, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar disorder, Bipolar mood disorder, Medication side effects, Meditation, Mental disorder, Mental health, Quetiapine, Side effects
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In two minds
So apparently I am having to live with a dual reality. One is about logic, “facts” and what I “know” to be true (or more accurately what I previously knew to be true). The other is a different sort of … Continue reading
The woman in the crumbling mask
[TW: suicidal thoughts] As Christmas approached I was cautiously optimistic. I’d been doing so much better since starting lamotrigine, feeling like myself for the first time in who knows when. I saw no reason why that shouldn’t continue. Of course … Continue reading
I was wrong
I’m not tremendously good at admitting when I’m wrong – indeed, my partner would be overwhelmed with amusement at the suggestion I do it at all. But I’m admitting it now: I was wrong, dead wrong, about being in recovery. … Continue reading
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