ā07-11-2023 11:21 AM
ā07-11-2023 11:21 AM
I hope the specialist appointment goes well @Shaz51 !! Sounds like it is far from home?
ā07-11-2023 11:27 AM
ā07-11-2023 11:27 AM
Hello @Historylover I've been meaning to bring this up. Saturn the planet of cold hard lessons, karma and brutal reality has been in the 7th house for Virgos. I'm not good enough in astrology to know how long this has been but its a slow transiting planet and the 7th governs partnerships of all kinds, both marriage and professional as well as people you consult like a psychiatrist for example.
It was retrograde since mid June and we have been reviewing all these murky waters to do with painful lessons governed by the 7th house. So my guess is a lot of it has been going on for you as well as me.
I am not in the least bit surprised by you account of what has happened to you with Saturn bobbing there. Its now gone direct but we still have saturn there
I have personally encountered a lot of questionable clinicians and have seen what goes on in hospital settings. Theres a lot of human rights abuses and nobody is believed. I mean we had the Royal Commission into mental health to try and uncover these abuses several years back but it was pure lip service. Now its been shelved.
The kindest thing you can do to someone who has been placed in the mental health system is to just "listen" The ONLY person who did that for me was a young social worker in Larundel in the 1990's. She had to fight for my case at a time when there was much medical dominance in psychiatry and allied health was kind of dismissed as a lame treatment methodology but still there operating in some capacity.
In her office I found comfort from the horrible sterile and dark nature of the ward that had windows that barely let the light in. I was allowed to leave the ward with her accompanying me otherwise I was under constant observation. Her office was filled with plants, nature and all kinds of beautiful things. It was my respite. I used to love going to her lovely office and she just listened to me without judgement. It served as my escape valve to get things off my chest. It was sanity.
I sense you need this too. I accept what you have to say. You may not have a mental illness, I don't know. There have been many cases of misdiagnosis. I wouldn't worry too much about what they have said in your patient file. I was comforted by one nurse who told me they are just other peoples opinions. I did get my files under Freedom of Information many years ago to read at an appointed time and had to laugh about what they said about me. So please dont worry. You know who you are, just let these insults to your sense of self roll off your back
Wanted to say there is one setting run by people in Melbourne who are anti-psychiatry who provide non pathologising care for trauma by just listening to someone and being there for them. I think its called Alt2Su and its run by survivors who don't accept the medical model. You may be able to meet friends there who understand what you have been through. I don't want you going it alone and being in distress anymore. You now have this injection to deal with on top of that.
I was divorced from psychiatry for a period of 10 years and was living a happy life until I got back into the system with diabetes and required psychiatric medicine management. I have since hooked up with lots of people online who have been seriously harmed and are now outspoken advocates. I was surprised at what went on. There were people who had it worse than me. When I was phoning potential psychiatrists locally I encountered one who looked like a butcher and another who I spoke to was only treating return soldiers and I could sense she was abusing them based on how she acted over the phone. I mean how do you like that?
I hope you will be ok. Just providing some options for you to consider. Please keep in touch with me. I am here for you. I know its no substitute for being there in person but I try as hard as I can.
ā07-11-2023 12:11 PM
ā07-11-2023 12:11 PM
ā07-11-2023 12:59 PM
ā07-11-2023 12:59 PM
@Shaz51 A+ signed off. Got my Blue star āļø and Red dot š“ of approval. It means nothing in the real world, but if I lose a finger it wonāt be my fault š¬
My examiner had a timber box base they wanted to replace.
While they were looking for screws, I removed the old base & supports, glued the corners, put in the new base, counter sunk the screws.
Woodwork is very calming for me.
ā07-11-2023 02:03 PM
ā07-11-2023 02:03 PM
Morning Forumites
@Shaz51 @SmilingGecko @StuF @Historylover @tonys
Got to sleep at 4am slept until 9:30. Better than no sleep. If I keep persisting, maybe the body will relent to a normal circadian rhythm?
Iāve started taking antidepressants/anxiety medication again to get me through Nov/Dec Festive time of the year.
All the memories and having to represent myself legally in a spousal settlement is nerve wracking.
I wish you all good fortune and bid you adieu šš¼
ā07-11-2023 02:09 PM
ā07-11-2023 02:09 PM
ā07-11-2023 02:09 PM
I got up 2am , slept 0530 to 0730 @Glisten okay now.
What tickets did you get ? feel have heard this before, dunno do you mean OHS or HIGH RISK? I've had white card spaces, heights like 16 years now also got LF, RB, DG, WP, bit naughty tho, did all of those in like 2007 and none since
ā07-11-2023 02:16 PM
ā07-11-2023 02:16 PM
Did anything come of the appointment @Shaz51 ?
ā07-11-2023 02:50 PM
ā07-11-2023 02:50 PM
@Glisten I will tell you what a top Harley Street Doctor, Ashok Gupta tells people with circadian rhythm disruption. My other GP whom I only see for acupuncture told me the same thing. Ashok Gupta put out a free series on how to stay healthy during the Pandemic and one of his modules included getting proper sleep.
He said you can reset your circadian rhythms easily by getting sun at sunrise (not first sunlight). I was a bit skeptical. I had insomnia which I later found out was due to gluten intolerance. Did not sleep properly for months and after that my circadian rhythms were totalled. I could no longer sleep. Melatonin would not work, magnesium would not work, aromatherapy would not work, breathwork wouldn't work etc...
So I had nothing to lose. I just got outside in my pjs with my beanie, puffer and wellies and watched the sunrise (not looking directly into the sun) and from that point on I could go to sleep. I still have refreshing sleep.
I am albeit getting a bit old having to wake up and pee but I am usually able to get back off to sleep without too much trouble. I'm just glad I am not in the same space as I was before. Believe it and give it a try is all I can say. If you keep waking up different hours of the night it may be something wrong with each of the major organ systems which is why acupuncture can fix that.
ā07-11-2023 04:01 PM
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