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the majority of us are just nice, normal, ordinary people who care about others, just coz we want to get in each others pants doesnt mean we are rubbish (Catholic raised )
If you put together all the people on SH and had a game of trivial pursuit i reckon we would be an awesome team, never be so brow-beaten that you cant post in the forums, theres always bound to be a member of Sh somewhere that can help or advise
Ive been on a low for a week or so now, but I know where to find help to nip it in the bud, and always happy to pass on my personal experience with stuff like this.
lifes too bloody short to be miserable, make yourself a gratitude list, just 5 things you are grateful for each morning, on facebook right now they are doing the 3 positive things for 5 days challenge which is similar
so - I'm low right now - but my gratitude list is as follows :-
1: I woke up
2: i have a roof over my head
3: I have been 16 years clean this June :clap:
4: I have a freezer full of food because i have discovered menu-planning
5: i have friends that are better than family who are always there for me when i'm feeling low
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

echoes kat
1..i woke up
2..i have a roof over my head
3..i have a beautiful daughter
4..i cant cook for shit but hey ho
5..i also have some amazing friends...especially you and Kerrie

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There some truly lovely people here and I am very glad i posted about how I felt, it has helped me.
i had 2 very bad days and was in lots of pain and struggling to control it plus I lost some of my mobility that I had gained since my opertion and felt fed up because I felt I was going backwards and was so fed up and tearful
Friday afternoon i went for physio and although I felt I wasn't doing well I was told I was doing good !! So that helped plus the physio helped me with the pain ... tens machines are brilliant
Then yesterday I spent the day with family and hubby and we went out several times and I walked lots, far more than I have since my operation and the pain was controlled fairly well and I felt so much better
Today I am achy but that's to be expected after the amount of walking I did yesterday !
This week I will go docs and tell them you lots made me go lol
I hope these posts help others to know that depression is real and ordinary people have it and sometimes it's good to "let it out" to others
Thank you xxx

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I will be there x

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'Body Jerkers' - Sounds like an album.

fancy doing a duet

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The Crankies.

I agree with Kat

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And its a yes from me too xx

oops sorry about the big font

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'Body Jerkers' - Sounds like an album.

fancy doing a duet

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Ant and Dec?

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Ant and Dec?

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You can confirm me and dee please HnS we will be there with bells on lol

Morris dancing bels?

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hello HNS, can i sneak in the back please ??

Too late.....you have been spotted

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You can't get more unoriginal than a wink.. If that's the initial contact you can guess how imaginative they are in the bedroom :undecided:

Thats why I never wink

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Im still going plus 1 {and no cooking}

No sharpie pens
Not sure if we are staying over or going back to mine xx

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Hopefully that'll attract someone's attention Gobblers Knob is a place you filthy lot.
Anyone been to Wankum? ;)

where do you find these links

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I have been prone to depression since i was a teenager - it creeps up on me like a big storm cloud and i have been known to swing between the darkest depths right up to complete manic highs. After various spells on medication and years of having to deal with it on a daily basis I am thankfully stable There is a huge difference between Clinical Depression and Bi-Polar which is a lifelong condition which I have learnt to live with - after all its part of me so i have had to accept it.
The stigma of any mental illness is a hard cross to bear, for example: Should you declare it on a job application???? Because despite the fact that employers have to treat everyone equally - in my experience if you mention mental illness they put your application on the bottom of the pile, as mental illness is unpredictable and they don't want unpredictable people working for them.
Mental Illness is still a subject in society despite the fact that 70% of new mothers are likely to suffer from post-partum depression (not the baby blues by the way, i think 99% get that) - and thats when i had my first real experience of the illness taking hold, i was 20 years old and my partner came home to find me rocking in a corner of the kitchen while the baby was screaming in another room - two weeks in a secure unit and total oblivion of 4 different medications got me through that little episode.
Clinical depression can be kicked off by events, birth, marriage, divorce, death, the weather - ANYTHING - it starts circumstantial but if you have a tendancy towards depression it can quickly escalate into clinical and in my case a full-on Bi-Polar episode. Its a curse some of us have to live with, so i think in society there should be a more open attitude to mental illness. The following link is the start of changing attitudes and is a good read

Finally on the subject of suicide, some people affected by mental illness keep it so well hidden and are so deep into their personal misery that you wouldn't be able to tell if they were contemplating it, if anyone has been affected by the aftermath of suicide in their family they must not blame themselves, or wonder if they could have done something to prevent it because its impossible to predict. the Godmother of my daughter and my oldest and very dearest friend who I regarded as a sister took her own like in November 2003. she had drunk bleach two weeks before she took her own life, and had spent time being evaluated on a psych ward and was released without any aftercare, she phoned me 3 days before she died and said stuff to me that gave me an inkling she was contemplating suicide, I had found her twice before having attempted it, 3 days later her partner phoned me, he had come home from work and she had slit her own throat in the bathroom, I felt so terribly guilty but I knew deep down i could never have done anything to stop it from happening. Yes suicide is called selfish because of the aftermath but spare a thought for the victim, what utter turmoil they must have gone through to have done that, knowing what a horrible scene it would be for a loved one to discover. Ive been there myself, and thankfully i failed and im still here, Im grateful every day that I survived and learnt to live with the illness and I KNOW that there are services i can access to help me.
So people thats my essay over and done with, and remember please, if you spot any signs of depression in a loved one please seek help and be gentle with them, you never know what a difference you could make just by being open and loving to them xxxxxx

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I have been prone to depression since i was a teenager - it creeps up on me like a big storm cloud and i have been known to swing between the darkest depths right up to complete manic highs. After various spells on medication and years of having to deal with it on a daily basis I am thankfully stable There is a huge difference between Clinical Depression and Bi-Polar which is a lifelong condition which I have learnt to live with - after all its part of me so i have had to accept it.
The stigma of any mental illness is a hard cross to bear, for example: Should you declare it on a job application???? Because despite the fact that employers have to treat everyone equally - in my experience if you mention mental illness they put your application on the bottom of the pile, as mental illness is unpredictable and they don't want unpredictable people working for them.
Mental Illness is still a subject in society despite the fact that 70% of new mothers are likely to suffer from post-partum depression (not the baby blues by the way, i think 99% get that) - and thats when i had my first real experience of the illness taking hold, i was 20 years old and my partner came home to find me rocking in a corner of the kitchen while the baby was screaming in another room - two weeks in a secure unit and total oblivion of 4 different medications got me through that little episode.
Clinical depression can be kicked off by events, birth, marriage, divorce, death, the weather - ANYTHING - it starts circumstantial but if you have a tendancy towards depression it can quickly escalate into clinical and in my case a full-on Bi-Polar episode. Its a curse some of us have to live with, so i think in society there should be a more open attitude to mental illness. The following link is the start of changing attitudes and is a good read

Finally on the subject of suicide, some people affected by mental illness keep it so well hidden and are so deep into their personal misery that you wouldn't be able to tell if they were contemplating it, if anyone has been affected by the aftermath of suicide in their family they must not blame themselves, or wonder if they could have done something to prevent it because its impossible to predict. the Godmother of my daughter and my oldest and very dearest friend who I regarded as a sister took her own like in November 2003. she had drunk bleach two weeks before she took her own life, and had spent time being evaluated on a psych ward and was released without any aftercare, she phoned me 3 days before she died and said stuff to me that gave me an inkling she was contemplating suicide, I had found her twice before having attempted it, 3 days later her partner phoned me, he had come home from work and she had slit her own throat in the bathroom, I felt so terribly guilty but I knew deep down i could never have done anything to stop it from happening. Yes suicide is called selfish because of the aftermath but spare a thought for the victim, what utter turmoil they must have gone through to have done that, knowing what a horrible scene it would be for a loved one to discover. Ive been there myself, and thankfully i failed and im still here, Im grateful every day that I survived and learnt to live with the illness and I KNOW that there are services i can access to help me.
So people thats my essay over and done with, and remember please, if you spot any signs of depression in a loved one please seek help and be gentle with them, you never know what a difference you could make just by being open and loving to them xxxxxx

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I promise not to do any cooking

LMAO me and you are deffo doing some cooking

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Toots duz dat all da time

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PS the ladies are lying, Oops they already told you that.

Im more of an exhibitionist.......unless im viewing kat

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Wanking on cam? .. God that's so uncouth ;)

Does count?