Posts Tagged ‘recovery’
Taking on a new identity.
Posted by: outwardlyintrovert on: May 24, 2012
Hopefully this won’t be offensive to anyone, in general, with its topic matter. Warning for discussions of self harm, eating distress and general madness. *** I think when one is first diagnosed with a mental health problem, or first realise it, or whatever… it can become strongly entrenched in your identity. Even others, actually especially others will [...]
Recovery of an unspecified nature.
Posted by: outwardlyintrovert on: May 10, 2012
What, precisely, is recovery? Because this concept is starting to get my goat. The Mental Health Foundation describes it thus: What is recovery? For many people, the concept of recovery is about staying in control of their life despite experiencing a mental health problem. Professionals in the mental health sector often refer to the ‘recovery [...]
Things I learnt from self harm – Part 1
Posted by: outwardlyintrovert on: March 17, 2012
I thought I’d put together some ramblings about things that I learnt over the course of several years of injuring myself, mainly from cutting. This doesn’t sound like any experience you could learn from, especially when I’m only 18 and therefore not necessarily old enough to have “learnt” anything! However, on reflection, and after going [...]
The power of words.
Posted by: outwardlyintrovert on: November 24, 2011
- In: eating and me. | Food | Hospital | Recovery (?)
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*eating disorder number trigger – as if you haven’t read the DSM criterion for eating disorders..* I’m too tired to write about how things are going while in the epicbinoflooniness. As an interesting aside, I’ve never experienced mania from the perspective of someone on the outside. I can virtually cut off and they will [...]
This was 2010.
Posted by: outwardlyintrovert on: December 31, 2010
I started a review of this year & then decided… no, I don’t really want to dwell on the negative things (of which, I realised, there are many!). Instead I shall offer an irritatingly positive & optomistic post about what I’ve acheived & what I hope to achieve for 2011. So far, I have.. …. [...]
You don’t get what you want, sometimes.
Posted by: outwardlyintrovert on: June 14, 2010
You get what you need. That phrase, or something similar to it, is going through my head a lot recently. Hmm. Mood is somewhat stable, so I’m taking advantage of it by doing what I can and preparing for any other slip-ups. I’m more aware of the thoughts that lead up to me doing stuff [...]
Citalopram.
Posted by: outwardlyintrovert on: May 5, 2010
Tonight is my final night of taking that disgusting mirtazapine liquid! Woot! etc. etc. etc. I’m now safely onto my lil white citalopram tablets without much difficulty. They’re not as sedating as the mirtazapine, though, and I’m already feeling the effects on my sleep, but you win some and lose some. Yesterday was therapy and [...]
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