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The mental health charity Rethink, are asking if mental health illnesses are ever a gift on their twitter feed and on their facebook page.

I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. This is in no way a gift.

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I was trying to decide what to write about. Zombies? Space: The third to last frontier? My discharge summary and diagnosis?

Which is the more important? The zombies? Certainty more important if they’re knocking down your door, but generally, not a ( Read more... )

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So, I stopped taking my medication. Not in my usual purposeful, ‘I hate my medication, and all medication, it’s fucking with my head and it’s not really me,’ kinda way. More in a; it just happened sort of way.

I didn’t take them night one because I’d ( Read more... )

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I hate the medication because it’s taken my poetry away. More specifically the Carbamazepine. I take as a mood stabilizer, and it works, which makes it all the more frustrating. The anger is contained, a lot of the ‘mild mania’ is subdued. A lot of the ( Read more... )

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Medication Blues

Orange and white,
with a little stripe
a score with which
to break the whole in half
before this breaks your heart.
It’s always the first to go.

The mind follows
soon after
and they say it
won’t last forever,
something has to give.

It’ ( Read more... )

Okay, trying to think rationally.

I get frustrated with my medication, mostly because I am very aware that 80% of the time, it is the only thing keeping my head together, and I hate that. And the meds don’t actually do a very good job of keeping my head together. It’s a bit like selo-taping something that really needs welding.

I feel bad a lot of ( Read more... )

I hate that sleepy taste you get in your mouth after a nap. I don’t get it often, just sometimes, like now, because I’ve only had a half an hour doze to try and get rid of my headache.

I get insomniacs mouth a lot. Well, I used to, not so much now I’m sleeping better. And I am sleeping better, the Seroxat has helped with that. It’s a good thing, I ( Read more... )