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The power of choice
*Life is busy again -I choose to post this 10 days before I am “supposed” to because I think our MENTAL HEALTH needs care and attention every single day*
Inspired by taking a head ache tablet and the film ‘the Matrix’
It’s a bit abstract and simple at the same time.
Using the matrix as a metaphor to raise MENTAL HEALTH awareness and reduce stigma
What if I asked you This?
What pill will you choose?
Remain ignorant about mental health issues ,or acknowledge and seek to educate yourself?
If you believe you have a brain and a body -then it makes sense that you have Mental health and Physical health. Both exist. Both can fluctuate along a spectrum of Good- Bad.
Yes. I am aware that the picture shows only one tablet. Think of this one tablet as how the status quo deal with Mental health -good and bad.
I’m not saying there hasn’t been progress. There has. We have a long way to go still.
Society wants to understand IT and at the same time ignore that IT exsists.
We can’t have both.
In my opinion,
to think you can live with both:
understanding and ignorance is INSANITY.
This is what keeps us from understanding and evolving into the mental well being matrix system. 😉
‘ the body cannot live without the mind’ –
Morpheus from ‘the matrix’
Here is a link to world mental health U.K. website –
it has articles, blog stories and loads of information on MENTAL WELLBEING -good and bad.
I live in West Yorkshire, U.K.
support links for people in my community here
its OK to talk
Hope Mental health charity- Calderdale recovery college.
Healthy minds Calderdale services
Wellness
Recovery
Action
Plan
Information in the U.K.
I have done the 5 day co facilliator W.RA.P. and I’ve done the 12 week program.
I’ve been involved with many of these services or know people who have in some different capacities and reasons.
I BELIEVE ENGAGING AND REACHING OUT WORKS.
I FIND WRAP HAS HELPED ME.
Invest time in learning about the Wellness Recovery Action Program 5 core values.
What is your understanding of these values? Click on each underlined link to read another person’s definition of WRAPS core values
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HOPE
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EDUCATION
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PERSONAL RESPONSIBLITY
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SUPPORT
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SELF ADVOCACY – (it took me a long time to understand this)
SHORT INTRODUCTION TO WRAP
My premature message for #WORLDMENTALHEALTHDAY 10TH OCTOBER 2017
Hope’s unique gravity
I just wanna do my thing.
I don’t wanna hurt nobody or anybody with the way I decide to go.
I’m all heart – Sensitive a subject of the dark arts but in truth, I can’t really stop the blood flow;
coursing through my veins. I don’t need blood clots to interfere with my emotions.
I like to feel.
From time to time, circle crops set up home on my turf – I’d like to say it is an alien probing and feign ignorance, I can’t deny the familiar weight of sentimentality surgery.
Unforgettably invasive- it is real.
Paranoid thoughts – tension is all I have set on my watch dial. I know I have not been Santa’s best girl every time.
Honestly, I do enough good to save me from paying for another crime.
Honest intentions. Soul soft and pure. Warped sense of humor.
Bold, moody, loving ,trusting, overly sensitive cysts congregate into lumps, deciding on the logistics and geometrics, of developing a cost effective tumor.
Screams above – Take me – unleash me from the scourge of hell that I find my feet clad in cast iron.
No one else can cut the chain. Raggle out that last breath.
Breathe life into a place for the ones who seek redemption in their conceptualized Zion.
Fighting spirit. Fighting a war. A battle within – Gore – more gore .
I deplore.
I abhor.
Is this really all she has to show for herself and sell on the haggle market shop floor?
Brecht. Disconnect.
Fayre .Disrepair.
Coquette. Disinfect.
eclair. Declare.
Life takes us down alleys where the shit tide threatens to pass the neckline.
Think quick, Grasshopper – put that cap on backward and move into a new gear. Time to engage and decline or re-define.
Shattered thoughts. Media social networks taunt. Pull the plug. I’m done with the fictitious lives.
Comparisons in a house of distorted mirrors. Insecurity breeds, incubate in these surroundings – glass shatters – contaminating other entities- is how it thrives.
Worry,
Worry,
about not the friends who are not .
Worry about the ones who are in ‘yours truly’ life and are what you would call ‘your lot’.
Happiness is not a concept. Dolce and Gabbana shoes heighten the germicidal sensation of Dopamine overload syndrome- early onset.
The human touch, the words we use. More lasting splendor than debiting additional digits from your visa card, in an attempt, to feel less deprived. Wage a bet.
Birthdays are for celebrating – don’t ignore the day you not only gasped but grasped your first true breath.
It takes skill to meander through the valleys, hills, low-lying turnstiles, the rabbit holes of seemingly eternal strife.
You have passed by many costly troll bridges – and managed to get away with what is most sacred – your life.
Another day has passed – look at what you have done not what you have lost.
Focus on your strengths, not your adversaries – no need to subject yourself to more savage beatings at an unnecessary cost.
No motivation – it’s okay,we all have these moments thinking we have forever lost our precious marbles
Get back on the wheel and break dance – do a wheely – show off that you have emerged from the eye of the storm – scarred but intact .
Be pleasant,smile it’s okay you’ve got this .Thank the alert, coast guard marshalls.
Live. Eat. Pray.
or
Give. Beat.Stray.
whatever you do,
always have your say.
PERMISSION: to Fuck up and pick myself up
“I fuck up all the time. I also make sure I get my shit together and fight for what I want and who I want in my life. I can’t fight for the ones who give up on me but I can only wish them the very best “
DAISY WILLOWS
Apologies for not reading as many Blogs as usual. I have read as many as my mind can take in. It’s been pretty rough for me lately.
WWJD?
WWDD?
All very “woe is me” and it has got boring!
but it is a new -ish day!
I needed too get something optimistic out into the Blogo sphere
My tuition loan for my MA in Creative writing has come through- waiting on one more loan to come through.
I don’t take no for an answer!
Then 2 years from now I will do a mini PHD top up and go and rule my world!
Oh and in other great News,
I’ve been officially approved on the WRAP training facilitator course in September. If you don’t know about it yet. You will do. I will merge my own personal WRAP PLAN and journey with my new role of holding the space for others to have courage and believe in themselves and feel safe to go on their own journey .
I’m not a teacher, merely a person who has a chance to offer support.
Volunteering with charities in Mental Health is the best thing I started doing with my life.
They know I have been ill , may even get ill again. The point is, if I don’t put myself out there I will not have a chance to seize any opportunities.
Volunteering gives me drive, Keeps me focused, empowers me to do my best in life and if I manage to help a few people out on the way then what more can I ask for?
Oh and here is how I was able to get on this course. Scroll down to check out my PLEA to get on this training.
Just hit scroll if you don’t want to hear me go on for oh 5 minutes on my video cam… 😀
This is my career. I take it seriously.
If you want to listen to me waffle about how I felt about WRAP way back in December 2015 – feel free. 5 minutes of me talking!
Oh the excitement! 😉
Oh and if you don’t want to know about WRAP.
I’m offended.
Ha ha! I’m not.
My WRAP page needs updating but if you want to know what Daisy get’s like when she is passionate and determined CLICK HERE.
Never thought that me filming myself nearly a year ago would lead me to this.
Carpe Diem!
MY PLEA
I, Daisy Willows,agree to abide by the WRAP ethics and values.
*PLEASE ANSWER THESE FOUR QUESTIONS TO CONFIRM YOUR PLACE ON THE TRAINING*
ABOUT MY WRAP EXPERIENCES AND HOW I USE WRAP IN MY LIFE
When I was given the opportunity to be a part of WRAP, I didn’t know how much it was going to impact on my life and the lives of others.
I was and am by nature sceptical. I have relied on medication and psychotherapy and in patient treatment as a way of managing my mental health for most of my life.
WRAP was a three-month period where I began to realise that I could have more of a say in how I want to be treated and how I could cope differently.
I learnt so much. I now have so many different ways of coping and I find that when my mental health does dips, I do get back to being in a better mind state more quickly because of some of the techniques I have learned and adopted.
I believe WRAP is personal and unique to everyone who participates. I don’t think I took away the same thing as any one of my peers.
It was an opportunity to discover more about myself. How I can help myself.
I learned to work as a team. I felt safe and I didn’t feel judged.
3.MY REASONS FOR WANTING TO BECOME A WRAP FACILLATOR
WRAP has given me the confidence and skills to live a life I want to live. I want to be able to share that with others
I am able to take every aspect of what is covered in WRAP and either use it myself or pass on what I have learnt to others who may need advice.
I believe WRAP is the way forward with the CPA. I have given a plan over to my professionals who support me about my wants and what I don’t want to happen if I go into a crisis again.
I have alternative ways of coping with my wellness toolbox. I also have a post crisis plan to let people know when I am getting better and I can start taking more responsibility for what I can’t when I have been unwell.
WRAP is truly the best gift I ever received.
Is there anything bad to say about WRAP?
Well I suppose an open mind helps.
It requires commitment to wanting to improve my life and consistency.
4.WHAT I WISH TO DO WITH MY WRAP QUALIFICATION
Spread the word. Let people know there is another way to manage Life in many different ways. I want be a Wrapper. Use my qualification to just offer support. I am no teacher but I can give my time and my energy and my listening skills. I am enthusiastic and passionate about WRAP. I believe I will be a great asset to getting this programme and alternative way of living out into our community. I use WRAP every day, even when I am not even aware it.
Daisy is a sentient “monster”.
We all have to start somewhere to get to somewhere else right?
A year of volunteering and training done so far and all of the effort has been 100% worth it.
So, today I am very proud to say I successfully helped to put together a Mental health awareness workshop and co -facilitate it.
I felt so at home. I felt the most comfortable I have ever been. I’ve helped out with a few workshops before but this was like my mini baby step to doing something I didn’t think I could do.
‘Be your greatest cheerleader – nobody else is likely too.’
DAISY WILLOWS
Upon reflection I realised we still have a long way to go to reduce and breakdown Stigma against Mental health issues in our community and society.
I stick by my rule of always being authentic. I have nothing to hide. The more I shared, the more I felt I connected with other people.
People opened up and it was awesome to observe this.
We all have mental health and I discovered a lot of people have similar issues. We deal with them in different ways and some can have more extreme ways of coping than others or vice versa.
I’m on a roll here . ha ha
I know what you are thinking. Just let me have this moment? Please!
United, we can break down the stigma attached to mental health and address the issue properly.
We all have a mind and a body -so no one- unless a person defines themselves as an actual (not metaphorical) robot- is susceptible to having Positive mental health and Negative mental health over the course of a life time.
Why do we feel ashamed to be labelled? We quite happily wear labels like Prada , Gucci, Matalan , doctor , chef , cleaner, politician ?
I don’t have any shame in what I have done or what I have been through. I have so much respect for the people I meet here and in the real world.
I am truly on a mission.
Perfection is unattainable!
We need to leave that with the Romans.
Look to the future .
Even better pause and take time to enjoy the moment. Look around you and be happy with what you have.
Don’t read beauty magazines or buy into the celeb media market.
Pick up a book and expand your mind. Take pictures. Paint, draw, act. Get creative.
I have recently found out that a lot of people Photoshop ( I mean really Photoshop) their social media images.
No wonder I don’t recognise people when I am out and about in the big wide world.
I am kind of joking . 😀
I do day dream when I am out and about.
I always have a million things going on in my head.
Not everyone does this Photoshop thing but to know that people do, just made my jaw drop.
So I am going to stick with being real. It seems to be working.
I can smile at strangers in the street and they smile back.
We are all human.
We need food, exercise ,sleep, a toilet……. Can you see where I am going with this?
That’s it for now.
I did it.
We did it.
Totally motivated and ready to break down stigma.
My mantra is:
‘I am successful at whatever I do.’
no matter if that means getting out of bed or getting my degree.
R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Oh yeah baby – all I am asking for is a little bit of respect…. ( totally dancing on my own in my room – may just grab my hair brush )
TOTAL RESPECT to a very good mate of mine on Word Press for this award.
Who doesn’t know Paul ?
Talented, generous and a born fighter. I have a lot of time for this dude. Look at this face what is not to love?
- PAUL AND THE INFAMOUS DAPHNE
Don’t let the title of his Blog put you off – this is not all about fitness but it will put you through your paces. Or should I say Paul will.
wwwpalfitness
To train or not to train – check his Blog out!
So a respect award is pretty fucking awesome right? I want to thank Michelle for nominating me for the one lovely award Blog. I recently just accepted this so I have decided I am going to give this award to some one else I think is awesome.
GUESS WHO?
SIMPLY ETTA D. Your quotes have inspired me and helped push me to move forward.
Here she is : I forfeit my award from Michelle @ PSYCHEDELIC BAY -WHERE HOPE IS REAL – Small shout out to her partner in crime 😉 Cezanne.
- SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL INSIDE AND OUT
Before I continue with accepting this really cool RESPECT award. I just want to let everyone who reads this that there is an epic party going on this weekend at Jaquies a cooking pot and twisted tails. place. If you don’t know her.
Where have you been?
Ha ha. She is another great inspiration and my Blog role model.
I also want to thank Linda G Hill. your Saturday soCS -stream of consciousness writing challenge. She always prompts me to get shit out of my head and onto the screen. You get me thinking out of my comfort zone which I love! ❤
Then there is the rest of you who I follow and who follow me. You make life that bit easier for me and I love all the different perspectives I read and the cool thoughts and ideas you have swirling round those brains of yours – The Word Press community are full of heart. We are empaths and should rule the world .
What are we going to do tonight ,WP posse ?
Okay so on with accepting my award from Paul.
THREE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER:
WHAT DOES RESPECT MEAN TO YOU ?
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It means having faith and self love and self belief.
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Respect is about using old school style manners – that will never go out of style for me
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Respect is about boundaries and acknowledging others have boundaries and not to cross them and know when not too.
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It means listening and it requires effort and commitment and compromise
WHO DO I RESPECT THE MOST?
I respect people who are honest with me. Who take me for who I am. I respect people who are true to themselves and are not afraid to stand alone when the shit hits the fan. I respect people who refuse to give up – the people who rise and fall and rise and fall and rise again. I have a lot of respect for my Mother and my Nan. Two ladies who fought to keep me alive. I would probably be dead today if it were not for their persistence that I could find a way to be happy in this world.
WHAT DO I RESPECT THE MOST ABOUT MYSELF?
Woah I guess…. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I don’t hide my issues. I fucking embrace them. I am not really great at giving up. I like myself . I have a lot of love to give to people. I don’t take bullshit but I can’t hold a grudge. I try but I can’t -especially if it is some one who I feel or once felt a connection with. I hate conflict.
ONLY THREE NOMINEES?
These are solely based on recent discussions I have had with these Bloggers.
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BRENDA @CYBERNETIC BLONDE
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SERENA @ SERENA JOY SINCLAIR Lifelong Learner
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BROOKE @ theutopiauniverse
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LISA @KIDSCRUMBSANDCRACKERS
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ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MENTIONED ME IN THEIR BLOGS THIS PAST WEEK. I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FIND YOU ALL ON WORD PRESS YET BUT I WILL……..
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T @ MY LITTLE BIT OF SERENITY HAPPY 6TH ANNIVERSARY TO YOU AND PRESH
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QUEEN BEE @ I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC
Trapped
Motivation .
Deportation.
What must I do with the tug that pulls at my rubber heart like a current working against the frequency waves of my mind?
You’ve won a trip to wonderland!
Can I take my bed with me? I’m finding it hard to stand.
Look at your dress! You are going to make a beautiful bride.
Everyone you love is coming.
Heart and mind can’t you connect and just be normal and run with this ride?
Motion.
Potion.
There must be something I can do to make me tick-tock without the need to be wound up every hour.
You have been Given 50 grand to buy whatever catches that mag pie eye of yours!
Can I take my bed with me ? I find it easier to shop if I am in a position where I am flat and can lie.
Look at the state of your current wardrobe. You have the chance to come home with bags of vintage finds!
Everyone will want to mimic your own inimitable fashion style.
Heart and Mind cant you connect and just be normal and and fall within the right lines?
Distasteful .
Disgraceful .
How am I going to get out of this mind- full, conundrum soup when I’ m not even given the correct utensils?
Look you have the key to happiness, it is my gift to you .All you have to do is unlock it!
Can I take my bed with me so I can laugh at your attempts to tell me what I crave is within me? Let me have a snack and scoff for a bit.
Look within you. All you desire is hidden in that quagmire.
Every one who loves you wants you to break free from this Sisyphus like dream state .
Heart and Mind I need too show you how to connect again. I want to feel what my life reflects -allow me one last attempt to become everyone’s favourite sunbeam, mate .
I need one last line ,
to make this life mine.
Again?
when?
Now.
I’m sick of living in a sand bed ,low tide -in a place where chances of survival is hidden in an oasis-mirage like den .
Get Creative
Monday has automatically become awesome when the word creativity is put before or after the M -word.
I’m really excited to go down to my local radio station- PHOENIX RADIO and learn a bit about recording pieces of audio. I touched on this in one of my modules at college – I had to write, produce and cast a radio play. I did an adaptation of one of the scenes from the movie ‘Natural Born Killers’.
The most fun I had was putting the SFX – sound effects in.
I also got to act in another colleagues radio play. It is a place I felt quite comfortable acting.
CREATIVE MINDS – a charity I’ve yet to do anything with yet will be hosting this workshop. It will also give volunteers like myself the opportunity to get to know more about the CREATIVE MINDS PROJECT.
I know that I thrive in creative environments so I have been looking forward to today.
I have a couple of ideas I want to thrash out and hopefully by the end of today I will have something as opposed to nothing.
Yeah, it can be scary getting yourself out there and of course I want to be a credit to whatever I get involved in.
So to all of you who are trying new things today. Be it a
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Job
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Course
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Diet change
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new driving route
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sport/gym
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Moving home
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Date
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new holiday destination
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new school
The list is endless.
It’s okay to feel nervous and scared. I may not come across as a nervous and scared person but I too am just a human being, I feel the nerves too. I have my own way of dealing with nerves.
I’m going to learn or expand on my learning, give my time and possibly talk about future plans.
I’m trying not to expect too much. I think that is the key..
Being scared and anxious is normal. Meeting or working with new people can be daunting. It’s not a bad feeling to have.
In my experience when I have these feelings, especially when I am doing something different,I see these feelings as a positive . It reminds me that I care about what I am going to do and it tells me I am passionate about whatever it is I am going to do.
There is nothing wrong with wanting to be successful and to want to have the ability to learn new skills and be credited for them.
All these skills and things we do make a great base for what we set up for ourselves in the future. We may not know what is going to happen in the future.
That is cool too.
What is important is that you never stop developing your skills and you never stop working on yourself.
You never know what it may lead to and who it might help.
Sometimes just your presence can be seen as support for whatever it is you sign up for or do.
Give yourself credit for the space you rightfully take up in your world.
A lot of the times what you do has a huge impact on helping others who are doing something new too.
The best way I can explain this is
I’m going to this workshop today. I may or may not think I will be useless. I don’t know much about this project.
How long it has been running.
If it is a new idea or project that someone has put together to see if something creative and productive can come out of it.
Using myself as an example.
If I don’t put myself out there and engage I may never know what could happen.
I may be the only person who turns up.
I’m NOT saying this is the case in this situation but I want you to see how important you and your presence is in the world you live in.
Don’t be afraid of creativity.
There is no way you can get creativity wrong. What is creative to one person may not be to another.
That is the beauty of it.
Have an epic day.
Try be creative in whatever you do. I am going to have a bath after gym. I may sing in the bath.
I’m being creative.
It’s that simple
Seize the day and be counted!
Bask in the sun light
“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen.Keep in the sunlight”- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Why I have chosen this quote.
A lot can be said for living in the moment. being mindful is something we kept coming back to in the training session yesterday.
It can be applied in so many contexts.
I have to live moment by moment or I will be suffocated by all the darkness that my future self anticipates. Do not allow the future to take both of its hands and use its hands to grab around your throat, gving it the opportunity to strangle every last breathe of hope you have in you.
One moment.
Now.
One moment.
Lions and Spiders
“When Spiders unite they can tie up a lion” Ethiopian Proverb
Why have I chosen quote?
Today, I am helping out HEALTHY MINDS with an anti stigma workshop for volunteers at HOMESTART
Home-Start Halifax was set up in October 1999 after the North Halifax area was identified as having high levels of needs due to deprivation. In response to this, Home-Start could help parents improve their parenting skills, confidence and access other services both within the statutory and voluntary sector.http://www.homestartcalderdale.org.uk/homestart_calderdale
People who are fighting stigma and living with it. Spiders are ugly, creepy and don’t have many enduring qualities- in my head, I think a lot of people approach people who struggle with mental health issues as they would a huge spider.
The cool thing is nature dictates that there are always going to be more spiders than lions and united we can break the silence around stigmatising mental health.
MY MAIN MESSAGE TO HOME-START VOLUNTEERS IS THIS:
You are not just an organisation made up of staff and volunteers. Regardless of who gets paid money for their time and who offers their time- ultimately everyone within the organisation whatever your role is no less or more important than the other roles.
Your organisation and YOU, the volunteers who represent your organisation ,come into a family’s home when Mental Health is usually not so stable.
Your organisation can be the first port of call and who can sign post people to different support agencies
. Your role and the decisions that are made within the organisation can be the difference between the Local authorities becoming involved or to let the community and a family work through issues as a community should.
pop over to SickNotWeak for inspiration if you are struggling today. The online chat forum is open from 8pm- 12 am, Canadian time.
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This is my Monday boost and inspiration – Have a great day.Can’t wait to catch up with you later on.
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Secret words
‘I have given you words of vision and wisdom more secret than hidden mysteries.Ponder them in the silence of your soul and then in freedom do your will’ Bhagavad Gita
Why have I chosen this quote?
For those who read YESTERDAYS POST- I STILL GET TO CHOOSE
My fears were indeed unfounded. I think of my psychiatrist when I decided to use this quote. Yesterday,
We are open and honest with one another. The beauty of this kind of relationship is he leaves the control of how I use the concoction of medication I am on in my control under his guidance of course.
I don’t know many doctors who do this.
Yes, I am on far too many anti anxiety tablets.
Addictive ones. I have been on them for years.
I know there is day that I need to get off them.
There never seems to be a right time. I need to create that time.
Doctor J. put the words out there:
” You are on too many benzos”
(panic starts its drum) .I acknowledge this.
We talk about factors that may explain why I am still not stable (as I have been) with my moods .
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not eating correctly
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been on the same antidepressants for over 10 years
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the pharmacist’s mistake in the dosage one of my mood stabilisers
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Benzo’s make you depressed.
So what is the plan?
The plan:
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Up the mood stabiliser.
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Think about reducing one of the Benzos by a half -a tiny little speck of a half
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. Follow up with my C.P.N. three weeks from now.
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Gauge if the increase in the mood stabiliser is working.
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Decide how I want this to play out.
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do I feel ready to start reducing the benzo’s?
No! (my automatic response)
Okay, chill, Daisy there is no pressure.
GO back to the quote:
The seed has been planted.- I have received ‘the words and vision more secret than hidden mysteries’
‘Ponder them in the silence of your soul and then in freedom do your will‘
It is only my will that can lead me to true freedom.
How many other doctors do you know who are like this with their patients?
He trusts me. I do honestly try to use the least amount of benzos in a day. If I want to have another child after I am married.
I do!
I will not repeat past mistakes.
My next child may not be so lucky. He or she may go through severe ,life threatening withdrawals.
I was ignorant the first time round. I have learnt the lesson.
My child is a daily reminder of what I wish for her and my future children.
So, for now. I get back to my passions: volunteering and training, get my confidence and focus back- then I am in a stronger position to make a decision that will benefit me in the long run.
I read so many other posts where people with Mental health issues don’t get the kind of support and trust I get.
Yes,I am blessed.
I am also honest( to a fault).
There is some kind of message here: Not speaking up for Fear and acknowledgement of how we cope, can be a natural reaction to protect our mind.
Change.
the word- petrifies me
What will I do without xyz.?
Anorexia and many other Mental health illnesses have a strong component of control as a symptom. The way to empower us to to give us some control over how we want to be treated and how we don’t want to be treated.
I put together a WRAP plan last year – my whole professional support team have signed it.
It includes
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what makes me happy
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Triggers
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coping mechanisms
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early warning signs that all is not well
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breaking down signs
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crisis plan
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treatment plan
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post crisis plan.
WRAP TESTIMONIAL CLIP ( it may just be the best gift you ever give yourself or to someone you love. All it costs is a bit of time and effort, I contributed to this testimonial )
I think more mental health professionals should move towards this approach. When a person with mental health issues is relatively well, that person is the only person who knows what will get them back on track.
I know I am going on a bit here
but,
if we do a bit of work on ourselves and find out what makes us tick -we stand a better chance over improving our mental health and our quality of life.
Just an opinion from a person who has mental health.
Don’t I mean mental health ‘issues’
No I mean – MENTAL HEALTH.
Do you have a mind?
Yes.
Then you have mental health.
Different life scenarios and experiences constantly change, so that you are always sliding along a mental health spectrum between good mental health and bad mental health.
I have bills to pay and grocery shopping to do today, I neeed to get my booty in to action.
So for now, to a person reading this, who doesn’t think they are susceptible to poor mental health;
I propose an exercise.
A challenge, if you will..
Where would you be on the scale of mental health? ( good feeling 100% well – bad being 0%) if
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your cat/dog died
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you got a job promotion
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you got divorced
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you won the lottery
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you child is bullying at school
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you find out your loved one is dying from an illness
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you win tickets to go see your favourite band
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you fall pregnant
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you need to move home
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you are moving to a new country
Just something to think about.
Can’t wait to read what other people are thinking about, what is going on in your lives and everything thing else. Thanks for reading. Time to hit the real world and get broke!
Daisy in the willows 
9 responses to “Secret words”
Inspiring.
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I’m glad you were able to do this for yourself, DaisyWillows. You’re an inspiration. Thank you for reminding me how important it is to take time out to ponder my mental, spiritual, and physical needs. I am admittedly out of touch.
Your Bhagavad Gita quote really spoke to me!!
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An inspiration? wow! just doing my thing in this vast world of ours. Glad you liked the quote and hope it made sense with my post 🙂 Thanks for reading 🙂
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Thanks for sharing. Mind if I blather?
All kinds of thoughts went through my mind when I read this. So now I’m just going to let them spill out. No judgement. Just thoughts. …hopefully something important.
There are all kinds of chemicals in our body that regulate our emotions and bodily functions. When we go through extreme emotions at some point in our lives these chemicals are thrown off creating what we call a chemical imbalance. Sometimes it moves into hormonal imbalance, and even imbalance within the electrical synapses and bodily functions.
The main culprit in any one of these chemical imbalances is fear. When we deal with trauma, either imposed or self-willed, the natural balance of the body is set off and put out of whack.
Well anyway, There is a natural reset to this system as well. It is usually a process of first acknowledging where the fear that caused the imbalance came from in the first place, acknowledging the fear, realizing that to continue to live in the fear is a lie, and then moving outside of that fear continuum. There. We have just reset the balance of life.
If the fear is gone. The balance returns, and the need for drugs to cover up the effects disappears as well. With a little faith that all can be returned to normal, that fear is not a permanent condition. Everyone can be made perfectly whole.
I’ve witnessed this in so many cases.
One last item. Many do not have the strength of character to realize Source as a component within their own soul that is capable of reconciling any destructive past. For this reason, many have faith in an external God or Source that they rely on to make this transition from fear to trust. Either way works. The power is within to return to balance. All one has to do is connect to it and claim it. The rest will rearrange itself.
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Hi ART -wise words as usual. Yes I must find the courage within myself and pay more attention to my triggers. Bipolar runs in my family and so does thyroid issues – over and under active thyroid. I never thought of FEAR being a major culprit in chemical imbalances but how you have explained it makes sense- fear sets off that primitive part of our brain – the amygdala? I think. I know I will get off these medications. I have a strong character. I believe that they have done untold damage over the years to my brain. Thank you for your insight :0 always appreciated 🙂
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I just started going to a therapist and psychiatrist last December. I was against going on meds but my psychiatrist said it would help. I have been fighting him against raising it. I actually want to ween off and it’s a back and forth objection. I don’t feel they really help me but when I don’t take them I get really dizzy. I don’t know what I need. I just want my depressed days to go away. My thyroid is also off which I learned last week can also bring your mood down. We’ll see. Great post 🙂
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Well I am not sure of the ins and outs of your condition. These days there is more of a holistic approach to treating illness. If I could start over and make choices about how I dealt with my issues -I would have chosen to explore different options to help maintain mental well being. I do thin medication has a place but there are so many other treatments out there that should be tried too. My Ma has an over active thyroid. she too has Bipolar and it really makes it hard to control her illness. So she feels she needs to take hormone tablets because it helps regulate her moods. What kind for medication are you on, if you don’t mind me asking? Sorry I’m super nosy 🙂 . Thanks for reading my posts 🙂
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Nice post! I have been a therapist for 20 years. I highly recommend exercise! It boosts the feel good hormones and burns off the anxiety promoters. I exercise everyday! I think of it as my antidepressant!
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You are so right about exercise. I have been using exercise for 4 years now as a coping mechanism and it is probably one of the main methods I keep stable. I too exercise everyday but I need more balance with what I put into my body. 🙂 thanks for commenting and giving some valuble advice.
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