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Tag Archives: Home Treatment Team
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
Where the damage is done
So much has happened to me since I last wrote a personal post that I find it difficult to link this one to the one before. Filling you in by writing it down now will diminish how very terrible things … Continue reading
Enough of us both
TW: suicidal thoughts and planning On Monday afternoon I sat in a glass-walled consulting room with my Consultant psychiatrist. Out in the waiting room I had felt so weary, sick to the back teeth of coming to this building over … 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
So this is Christmas – and what have I learned?
[Content note: discusses suicidal thoughts] Yesterday I was looking through some photos and came across pictures of Tom and I took in Bavaria last Christmas. Looking at them gave me a strange jolt. It suddenly felt like no time at … Continue reading
The lonely life of the outlaw
***TRIGGER WARNING*** Suicidal thoughts/plans Please take care of yourself and don’t read on if you are feeling at all vulnerable In the six years I was a frontline probation worker I spoke with all kinds of people about all manner … Continue reading
The long and winding road
Back in the spring a number of people started to suggest I might benefit from referral to a tertiary service. It would be wrong to assume that everyone knows what that means, so for those who need it, scroll down … Continue reading
Posted in Family issues, Mental health, NHS services, Politics and current affairs
Tagged Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Carers, CCG, Clinical Commissioning Group, Crisis care, Crisis Resolution Team, Depression, Funding, Home Treatment Team, Hypomania, Primary care, Referral, Secondary Care, Tertiary Care
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The seductive whisper of the suicidal voice
***TRIGGER WARNING: suicidal thoughts, suicide planning suicide attempt, overdose, physical affects of treatment of overdose*** In September 2001, in the middle of a bipolar mixed episode, an idea came to me. I’d barely slept in a week despite prescribed zopiclone, … Continue reading
What have I done?
***MORE BIG TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR SUICIDE, INCLUDING METHODS*** Yesterday I forced myself to be more honest than I have ever been about my suicidality. I told the Home Treatment Team Consultant, the team Registrar and my partner Tom everything I … Continue reading
An impossible ask
I’m going to start with a massive TRIGGER WARNING. This post contains numerous references to suicidal thoughts and descriptions of methods, as well as intrusive thoughts of self-harm. Please don’t read on if this could be damaging to you. After … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health, Politics and current affairs
Tagged Activism, Bipolar, Bipolar affective disorder, Bipolar depression, Bipolar mood disorder, Crisis care, Crisis Resolution Team, Depression, Employment, Euthanasia, Home Treatment Team, Mental health crisis, Suicidal feelings, Suicidal ideation, Suicidal thoughts, Suicidality, Suicide
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