I'm in a nest

[CheerBear]

Hey @Mazarita ☺ Thanks for reading, sharing and encouraging. It's helpful to hear about your experience, which I was thinking you may have had with something like this.

We discussed bipolar today as it's been questioned before, so we spoke about mood fluctuations and changes, how long they last and what they look like. He's confident it isn't bipolar, though there are definite reasons to have questioned it. I'm thinking that if my symptoms can have similarities with bipolar symptoms, then a med used often to help with bipolar may be helpful.

I think I'm ok with this. I really like the idea that three months should be long enough without (hopefully) being too long if it isn't right ☺

I hope your trips out today were good for you. Interested in hearing how you got on (and about to head over there ➡️ to see if you posted) ❤

Thanks heaps also @Maggie. I feel and appreciate your wishes often, and similarly send them to you (though sometimes quietly). Big hugs for you 💗

And thanks @TheVorticon ☺ I thought of Mighty Mouse today and it made me giggle (and I was going to ask whether you knew Danger Mouse but I looked at the date of it, watched the opening credits, and started feeling really old so I won't 😆). Hope today has been ok for you.

[Faith-and-Hope]

Quiet little woo-hoo here @CheerBear 🎉

Looove the condiment kitchen @Zoe7 .... ❣️  Looks like I am going to be visiting @CheerBear often in The Octagonal Room .... find out what kitchen experiments are happening there .....

[Phoenix_Rising]

Good evening @CheerBear,

I was so so SO excited to hear how well your appointment went today. I think this is a super cool example of the value of waiting until Monday to deal with Monday's muddles. That which seemed so super impossible on Friday, turned out to be super doable on Monday - yay!!!

PTSD to C-PTSD sounds like a good way forward (despite face palming at the fact that C-PTSD isn't technically a formal diagnosis - silly DSM-V people!!!). 

I was on a mood stabilizer for a few years to help me get through Operation Dissertation. I found it really helpful for a long time and then it just didn't really do anything for me any more and I prefer to stop taking something at that point rather than increasing the dose. I would certainly be open to going back on it though if I thought it would be helpful. I've always been really lucky and never had bad side effects from medications. But then, maybe that's because I'm so against just constantly increasing dosages. 

I super hope the plumbing adventure ends up going as well as this adventure did. Yay for the clever person who invented mops. 

[CheerBear]

Yay for mops @Phoenix_Rising 😄 And zombie unicorn dresses with pockets which is where a Tiny Turtle was placed today which was so helpful 😉

It's so great to find helpful helping people! The annoyingness of the DSM-V led to him talking about ICD-10 and the whole enduring personality change thing. This is ok and something to work with. Big thanks for your wisdom also - it definitely stuck 🙂

[Phoenix_Rising]

@CheerBear I am curious to hear what he said about the enduring personality thing (if you want to share)? Did he talk at all about BPD and his thoughts about that vs c-PTSD? It really does super bug me that they didn't change the name of BPD to C-PTSD in the DSM-V. Have you ever looked at the ICD-10? It is a much simpler system than the DSM-V. It's available online. To me, the sheer size of the DSM-V suggests a problem with it - soooooooo many labels and boxes! 

[Sans911]

@Phoenix_Rising when do we get to hear about your great world changing adverture from today. I'm just about busting at the seams wit excitement!

[Phoenix_Rising]

@Sans911 I just started a thread about my adventure over in the social spaces space. 

I wasn't world changing today - tomorrow and Wednesday are world changing days. So...basically the whole world should be changed by Wednesday evening. 

[CheerBear]

@Phoenix_Rising - you know how sometimes the forum can be kind of annoying because you just really want to see see people on it (I'm not sure if you know this feeling but I get it lots)? I feel so very much like that right now because I feel very close by but so far away from you all of a sudden. Your adventure is the highlight of my day!

Psychiatrist spoke about how personality changes can happen after long term trauma, and that's about as much as I can share tonight. I'm going to see psych on Friday and I think we might go into this one more now I am a little more open to talking about this. I have looked at the ICD, not very thoroughly though, and am doing more looking tonight, specifically around EPCACE. We didn't speak about BPD and C-PTSD. My psych's views have really hit a nerve with me before with it and he thinks they're different. Being psych and psychiatrist are partners, i wasnt hugely keen on starting our meeting with something that I think could have turned into a heated conversation (or a flip out from me) if they shared the same view 🙂

[Phoenix_Rising]

@CheerBear I can definitely hear you and feel the feelings regarding feeling closer and yet further away right now. I did think a lot about how much to share of my adventure, and those feelings were a part of that. It felt strange today at the aquarium, knowing that I was walking in a space where you had walked. 

However, really, I am right where I always am - in your pocket or in your handbag. I'm right there. 

It sounds like you were very much in wise mind during your appointment today - knowing what would be helpful to say and what may not be so helpful. I am so very very pleased that the appointment went so well. 

[CheerBear]

If this is how our oceans have collided, I'm really thankful for this. I'm so glad we can be together-but-not @Phoenix_Rising.

Night